Am I'm the only person not giving a 10 month old any milk?

[cranbury]

DS self weaned at 9 months - yes they are not meant to do so but I did every thing LLL suggested except take away all solids. Fed DD until she was 2 so I was really surprised. He gradually reduced himself and it isn't a nursing strike. Its been nearly 3 weeks since he has had any BFs. He refuses bottles - doesn't know what to do with them as never had one. With both formula and cows.

He refuses 2 types of formula from a tommee tippee cup free flow thing and complete mess when I tried at nighttime, refuses cows milk except for a few sips.

He drinks loads of water and until he was sick recently he had loads of solids.

Saw a peadritician for something else and was told to give lots of milky foods. Saw HV this week who didn't really know what to advise.

Tried cows milk and formula and he hates both probably cows milk a bit less. No way can I get 500ml through food.

Growing fine. Had to phone NHS direct about ssomething else for my DS and they gave me a really hard time about no milk though.

Not sure what else to do.

My son took a long time to accept warm cows milk in a tommee tippee cup. He was fully breast fed for 6 months. I just kept trying, he's finally getting into it at 12 months with breakfast and dinner. Keep trying and try as they say to give calcium rich foods, macaroni cheese? Yoghurts? etc. And give him water when he wants it.

And maybe Abidec vitamin drops too? If you're worried about vitamins from lack of formula or breast milk.

Try not to worry hon, he'll let you know if thirsty I am sure. If his nappies are wet in the day all is ok.

Before you know it this stage will have ended and he'll be doing something else instead to worry you

SIL's ds did something similar at 10 months. She gave him milky puddings, porridge, homemade cheese sauce on pasta, macaroni cheese, fish pie (homemade as didn't want him having too much salt or other additives) and milkshakes/smoothies. He's now 5, eats nearly anything and has a really good diet.

Hi cranbury - my DD (now aged 6) refused milk from 10 months old (she was on formula though). To compensate I gave her lots of calcium rich food (cheesey sauces/pasta, custard, yogurts etc). Even now she doesn't like milk, except on her cereal but she has grown perectly well and has always been a very healthy child.

Oh dd hated cows milk, she weaned a bit later about 15 mo but def went a few months with no milk. I offered cows milk consistently from about 7 mo but she hated it. After she had 'forgotton' the taste of my milk she did warm to it and now loves it.

(I did give her warm milk with a tiny bit of honey in to begin with though )

Does she eat cereal? I would give milky cereal, cheese and yoghurt and not worry to much. Do make sure her diet is good, healthy food not biscuits/rusks and such (which im sure you do) and i doubt a dr would have a prob with it.

DD had no milk from 11 months old when I stopped breastfeeding her. I tried everything

She ate a lot of yoghurt, cheese and milky cereal.

She's 2.6 now and totally fine. She still doesn't like milk. The only way I have ever got her to drink it is by adding a small amount of strawberry nesquik, although obviously this is not ideal for a little baby.

Thanks for your advice and experience, its good just to feel that I am not alone. The nurse on NHS direct seemed incredulous that a baby had never had a bottle and could self wean so young. She really got me worried.

I'm stuffing him full of dairy rich food, and I'm extremely vigilant with making sure he gets a good variety of foods with lots of iron, omegas etc... Sad he won't have his BFing top of nutrients.

Will try a milkshake with banana I think. I will perserve with milk in a tommee tippee cup, its just so messy, so will do it before bathtime - he throws the cups down after a sip, sigh...

DD who is 3 hates milk and milky things except icecream, so does my DH and he did as a child but his mother made him eat milky stuff and is almost phobic about it as a result. Luckily DS seems more keen on milky things if not straight milk.

That's exactly what my little boy does, even though he now drinks the milk, he still flings the cup everywhere and I have to return it to the high chair again in 5 minutes or so when I think he's thirsty again.

Then I spend a while wiping up afterwards, once dinner or breakfast is finished. You'd think they all had the same built in instincts to make our lives harder sometimes