Anyone had a 12mo (not-bf) who only really gets milk through diet rather than drink?

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I am desperate to wean my 11mo (have been for at least 3 months but he refused formula so I have limped on to now). I've started to offer him small amounts of cows milk during the day to get him used to it and he will take maybe 50ml twice a day. He has two bf (morning and evening) which I want to stop. Last night I had to go out before his bedtime and left a cup of cows milk with DH - DS took a few sips (maybe 10-20ml max) but refused the rest. He went down okay and slept through 7-7 as is currently normal.

I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that I have a baby who is just not that interested in milk (dropped to 2 feeds a day at 9.5mo), so I'm not sure he will end up having big (150ml+) feeds morning and night when I wean. He was BLW and most days eats huge amounts of solids very happily. I have no worries about his health or development and his weight gain has actually been better since 8-9mo than it ever was when he was little.

Is it okay from 12mo for my DS to get pretty much all his milk needs through diet (I give milk on cereal, yoghurt or milky pudding, lots of cheese)? I just think we'll never get him to take more than 1-2oz from a cup. Obviously there's a comfort thing we'll need to think of when I drop bf, but for purely dietary reasons is it okay if he doesn't actually drink much milk?

Absolutely fine. Just add milk to things like porridge, cereal, pasta sauce, mince meat, mashed potato, sauce on veggies and adding cheese to EVERYTHING.

I had a DS like this - agree with nappyaddict - just add milk to lots of things - also cheese and yoghurt to keep the dairy levels up. Greek yoghurt was the best as he could spoon it up himself and he loved it, also Rachel's organic rice pudding was always a good staple and frozen frubes as a'treat'!
He never drank milk as a drink - after 6 months, he only had a BF in the morning and bedtime once I went back to work and refused to drink any type of milk or formula during the day at nursery until he was about 2yrs old. Even now, at 4yrs, he will pretty much never request a drink of milk.

We use red and blue food colouring in our milk

DS dropped his milk completely just after 12mo, we just made sure he had yoghurt and cheese everyday.

Ds2 (12mo), who was ff, went off milk at about 11 months. He's now on cow's milk not formula and is offered a cup at breakfast, mid-afternoon, and with dinner, but doesn't drink that much. I make up for it by putting lots on his breakfast cereal and giving him lots of yoghurts and cheese.

Thank you - it's really reassuring to know other babies are the same, and have survived, nay, thrived! And you've given me some very helpful ideas