can you start cows milk as a main milk feed before one year?

[missorinoco]

ds is 10 months old.

he is now declining all milk.
won't have his bf in the morning, the evening one is long gone, and he has given up his late evening bottle feed.

i've tried formula in a cup and he was thoroughly unimpressed.

he is a healthy baby who is thriving.

what are the benefits of ff (think bf is over ) over cowsmilk at this age?

thanks in anticipation.

DS1 did the exact same at 10 months. I think he accepted cows milk using Nuk bottles eventually.
I don't know what the official advice would be on giving cows milk instead of formula at this age but in my experience it didn't seem to do any harm. Another 8 weeks and he'll be a year anyway.
If you wanted to get some formula into him you could use it to make up his breakfast cereal/weetabix, or sneak it into some pudding.
Congratulations though. It looks like you've managed to BF until he self-weaned. It's so much nicer than making the decision for them. Well done.

thankyou for your post.