Please help me stop breastfeeding 15 month old who's not keen on cow's milk...

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15 mo ds is having 2 feeds a day and I've decided it's time for at least the evening one to go. Been giving him cow's milk from a cup for months and while he's happy to have a few sips if he's thirsty he would never sit down and enjoy the whole cup. This leaves me with 2 conundrums:

He has milk with his breakfast cereal, and plenty of yoghurt and cheese - will this be enough?

What do we do at bedtime?! I was thinking cup of milk and a (small) biscuit with his story... Would love advice from all you wise MNers who've done this before!

have you tried the milk luke-warm? my two liked it warmed for 30secs in the microwave before drinking it....bit more like breastmilk in that way..... or have you tried him on soya milk for drinking?....plenty of yoghurt and cheese etc will give him the calcium he needs, so if he prefered soya milk may be worth a go? my dd 18m doesn't have milk at all unless its made into a very weak tea (ie hot milk with a drop of water and dip a tea bag in it) but eats cheese almost every day and has a yoghurt after a bowl of cereal/toast for breakfast every morning!!

Thanks glaskham. I do generally give it to him warm but doesn't seem to make him much keener... haven't tried soya milk though, may be worth a go. Still a bit worried about bedtime - going to give it a go tonight without bf and see how we get on! (he probably won't even notice and I'll be really sad).

I've been doing similar with my ds (13mo) during the day. He would drink small amounts from a sippy cup, but never very much. I bought the Tommee Tippee closer to nature bottles and he will happily drink 7oz warmed cows milk in one go now.

I know you're meant to discontinue bottles at 12 mo so it did feel a bit weird starting them then, but it worked for us!

Thanks for the advice mangojuice, maybe we'll have to consider the bottles again. Tried to put him to bed last night without bf, it went swimmingly and he went to sleep no problem but was awake at 5am very hungry! (and noisy ). Not sure if this was just coincidence... I feel like you though, not so keen to reintroduce bottles after we stopped them 5 months ago!

you've probably already thought of this but can dh/dp give him the bttle and then he won't smell the milk on you? Also you get to relax while Daddy does bedtime

No advice... just wanted to crash and say I love your name, I'm assuming a fellow Fairport Convention fan?

Yes!! Didn't think anyone else of child-bearing age would realise...