11 Month old refusing milk!

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EBF till 6 months, fussy eater sometimes.
Worked hard at about 7 months to get him onto a bottle and got there in the end, now down to 1 feed from me in the morning.
Except he's decided this week he wont take ANY formula milk at all any more. I wouldn't be too worried, but he's not very good at taking other fluids either.
Also between 8-10 months he stopped putting any weight on at all. It started as he was ill for a week, but only started gaining properly again last month.
I'm concerned that after all my hard work to get him putting weight on will be undone by his fussiness. Have tried putting milk into a different cup, offering cows milk instead of formula but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

Can you put milk in food? From 12 months they only need 12oz so it is easy enough to get there with porridge, yoghurt, cheese sauce and so on.

At 11 months one bf and some calcium rich food should be enough. A slice of Best of Both bread has half a 1 year old's daily target amount of calcium. Don't stress about it. Keep offering - he'll get there.

Have you eliminated the fact that he might be teething or feeling unwell? They do tend to ease off food then.
Have you offered him dairy based food products I.e. Weetabix, mashed potato, cauliflower cheese, yogurts?
Imo have you contacted your hv about this? You may be advised to keep a food diary for a few weeks.

In regards to not drinking much, keep an eye on wet nappies. I believe if its less than 4wet nappies in a 24 hour period, to seek medical advice.

They all seem to go through stages of refusing milk and food DD refused milk for three months the little bugger but if you are really concerned, there is no harm in seeking medical advice

He might be teething at the moment. He does eat cheese, but gets fussy with yoghurt.
Saw HV when he wasn't gaining weight well. They insisted I give him multivitamin supplements which made him turn orange. They told me to give him high fat foods but he's such a picky little chap, just spits stuff out half the time.

Vitamins made him turn orange?

Vitamin A overdose. It's finally starting to fade, but he still looks like he has a bit of fake tan on.
I think it's called carotinosis - thanks Dr Google!

How did that happen?

His favourite food is sweet potato and he likes carroty and tomato based food so there's a lot of beta-carotene in his diet. According to wikipedia his body is using the retinol vitamin a in the supplement first and storing the spare in his skin, hence he turned orange.
Didn't want to risk him having too much of other things like iron so I stopped the supplement.
He still isn't drinking milk and didn't even want a breast feed this evening, just bit me the ungrateful swine guess I'll have to bother the HV when he's due at baby clinic.