When do I stop giving my baby breast milk/formula?

[Neverknowing]

I've read that I can stop giving my DD breast milk at 1 year and just give her normal milk. Can anyone tell me how they did this? My DD only really feeds twice a day ATM, once in the morning and once near her bedtime. would I just give her a cup of warm cows milk for those feeds?
I'd like to wean her soon as I don't think she'd mind very much, she loves milk but forgets if she's playing and doesn't 'ask' for it.

At 12 months it is OK to stop breast milk or formula and replace with dairy milk. But it's not necessary if your child gets other sources of dairy/calcium like cheese, yogurt etc. on a regular basis.

We replaced expressed milk bottle feeds with warm cow's milk in a straw cup around 14 months and stopped BF completely around 17 months.

I did it slowly, so pick a feed that they are not as bothered about for us it was the mid morning ( DS was still feeding 4 times) and I would breastfeed first then give some cows milk I did this for a couple of days and then I gave cows milk first then a little breastfeed for a couple of days then DS just refused the breast, I then did the same for the afternoon,then the morning then finally at bed time.

I found warming the milk worked best to start.

Meant to say DS was 1 years old when we started and it just took about 2 weeks, once he weaned we stopped the day milk and gave snacks instead.

My DS was about 11 months when he grabbed an older toddler's beaker of cow's milk and downed most of it before the older child could get it back. So we started giving him cow's milk from then, and dropped his formula feeds.

He'd been mixed fed since birth and continued to breast feed morning, evening and weekends when I went back to work after a year, drinking cow's milk or water during the day. I don't think he needed the breast milk at that point though.

Thank you so much for all your responses!
It's really helpful to hear them. I don't think DD gets as much comfort from the breast anymore as she doesn't seem to search for it when she's upset. I think now or soon will be a good time to stop from what everyone is saying! Thank you !
That's so funny @DaisyFranceLynch ! Babies are so cheeky

Thank you @blossomingflower ! I just want her to get all the things she needs like calcium, I don't really mind where that comes from !! Maybe I'll try that milk thank you.

Most adults do not have an intolerance to cows milk, though some do if they are of an Asian ethnicity. It is rare in Northern Europeans who have adapted to dairy because they have been drinking it for thousands of years. It's common in Asian ethnicities and I am not sure about others. But it's a massive over simplification to say that most adults are intolerant. Almond milk that we buy commercially is mostly water and therefore has few, if any nutrients in it.

An open or doidy cup is usually the best thing to try to give milk from but it can take a little while to get them used to it, and I don't think they tend to drink so much as they just drink what they want rather than keep drinking for the comfort as well.

If you're not fussed on stopping and it's only twice a day, I would carry on.

I never intended on feeding for long and at each 'stage' (4months, 6, 12) I'd come on here or speak to others at a baby group as to what to do. U

ltimately it is your choice but someone said to me, to consider the nutritional value of cows milk versus your own milk custom made for your baby. Just because you hit 12 months, doesn't mean your milk stops becoming nutritional.

I ended up feeding until 2.4 years old, which definitely wasn't the plan! But it suited me and my dd and so I carried on until it became an issue.

An open or doidy cup is usually the best thing to try to give milk from but it can take a little while to get them used to it, and I don't think they tend to drink so much as they just drink what they want rather than keep drinking for the comfort as well.

Someone also sent me this

In the second year (12-23 months), 448 mL of breastmilk provides:
29% of energy requirements
43% of protein requirements
36% of calcium requirements
75% of vitamin A requirements
76% of folate requirements
94% of vitamin B12 requirements
60% of vitamin C requirements
— Dewey 2001 (from Kelly Mom)

@Appraiser wow. Thats amazing! I'm struggling with the idea of breastfeeding passed a year but that information is very interesting.
Thank you everyone, it's given me a lot to think about. Interesting there's no definite way people do it.

I just stopped buying formula and gave him cows milk straight from the fridge in his bottle before bed.