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Dropping milks at 1 year

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Londonmummy2012 · 23/06/2013 19:36

Hi. My daughter is almost 1. She used to drink 3 beakers a day, amounting to about 20oz plus 2 big helpings of Greek yougurt and fruit. The last week she's completely refusing her 2:30 beaker and isn't drinking as much of her morning and evening milk, so about 10oz of milk. She's eating a lot more food though.
Is this normal? Is there anything I could do to encourage drinking milk? Or should I not worry to much? She does have a very healthy diet otherwise. And how do I switch to cows milk? She doesn't like to drink it!

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JiltedJohnsJulie · 23/06/2013 20:22

Once she is one the minimum she should have each day is 300ml, which is about 10.5 ounces but can include milk used on cereals and in cooking etc. if she is almost one, I'd just carry on as you are.

Some people find that introducing cows milk a formula at a time works, so if she had 8floz, make 7 and mix it with one ounce of full fat cows milk and just decrease the amount of formula and increase the amounts of milk over a couple of weeks.

ehmumbo · 23/06/2013 21:13

My DS totally refused to drink any milk other than breast milk. Scuppering my plans to switch to cows milk at a year. But both Doc and health visitor told me it was fine as long as he was eating 2 servings of dairy a day (yog / cheese / mash potato for example).
also calcium is in lots of other foods such as almonds (used to stick ground almonds on yog / fruit / in pancakes for him), fish, greens (green pancakes and muffins very popular!)

ehmumbo · 23/06/2013 21:14

almond butter is yummy too - as long as your DC is not allergic obvs.

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