When did you introduce cows milk

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I know the advice is to wait till 12 months. DD will soon be 11 months and I'm thinking of slowly introducing it when she is about 11 and half months. DH says surely two weeks won't make a difference. Currently bf and going back to work just after her first birthday so ideally would like to make sure she is use to abit of cows milk before I go back.

Hi OP. I introduced cows milk 4 days before ds turned 12 months old. I was lucky he took to it straight away and there were no problems so we didn’t have to mix it with formula or wean him off that or anything. He’s been on it ever since br now has dropped all bottles and has a cup of cows milk along size his breakfast. My advice is to try it and if your little one doesn’t like it you could easily do half and half and gradually reduce formula until fully on cows milk.

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Forgot to say I literally gave ds formula one day and the next cows milk and never looked back. I would try the full change over first as you may not need to do it gradually.

Mine had it in cereal and foods from 6 months. Ds had the odd cup of cows milk from 10 months but I didn't start switching properly until 12 months

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At 11 months and we originally gave it slightly watered down and then built it up once i knew he was fine with it

Not until ds was about a year and a half. He was on first formula. Then follow on formula. Then toddler formula. We switched when be showed us he didn't want the formula anymore.

About a week before her first birthday she completely refused to breastfeed, so I gave her cow's milk instead. It took a while for her to get used to it, and her poo was a funny colour for a couple of weeks, but she was fine with it very soon.

At what point do they drop all day feeds and just have a bottle in the morning and night?

Mine were on 2 feeds by 11 months

Ds was on two bottles by about 9 months but he always prefers food to milk. Even now at a year old he had a cup of cows milk with breakfast and the rest of his diary in the form of yoghurts, cheese and custard etc.

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