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14mo won't drink milk

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Tallulahoola · 30/11/2016 21:39

DS is 14 months and won't drink cow's milk or formula. I had hoped to phase out breastfeeding from 9 months or so but it hasn't happened.

He was always a bottle refuser but now he can drink out of a cup he won't have milk from that either. He'll drink water from one but not milk. I've tried every cup on earth, straws, you name it. He started nursery at 12 months so the mid-morning and mid-afternoon bf stopped. I hoped that cutting out the daytime bf and seeing the other babies using cups, would persuade him to drink milk but no.

So now I bf at bedtime, which is so much a part of our routine I'm dreading dropping it but I really need to give up because work means DP will have to do bedtime sometimes. I also bf him when he wakes once in the night, usually at 4 or 5am to get him back to sleep. But it will mean he's getting no milk at all apart from on his cereal in the morning (he has it on Weetabix so doesn't object to the taste of it). He doesn't drink very much water so he's not getting enough fluids. His poos are rock hard already (sorry if TMI).

So do I have to keep up the nighttime feeds to keep him healthy? Will no milk at all and only a few sips of water be bad for his health?

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Soubriquet · 30/11/2016 21:40

My dd dropped milk at 12 months. Wouldn't touch it. She ate cheese and yoghurts so she got her calcium that way

She's started having it again at 3 for bedtime. She's fine

JohnLapsleyParlabane · 30/11/2016 21:41

Cheese and yoghurt for dairy. Soup, cucumber and watermelon for liquid.
Chocolate for mummy.

Tallulahoola · 30/11/2016 23:51

chocolate for mummy Grin

Thanks for the replies. I do put cheese in everything and give him yoghurt so we're OK on the calcium front. It's more the fluid thing that worries me. He turns his nose up at soup too. Nursery suggested flavouring the milk but I hardly want to be giving him Nesquik...

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Runningbutnotscared · 01/12/2016 00:03

I'm very sugar conscious with my pfb - at two years old he tried his first chocolate biscuit last week and still mostly drinks water and milk. I say 'mostly' because sometimes it pays to be pragmatic.

When he was recently ill and not eating the GP advised keeping his sugar levels topped up, so he had fruit juice for the first time (and he loved it).

If you are worried about hydration and your son will drink Nesquik I would give him Nesquik.

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