Not sure if this should be here or in the Weaning section, but here goes.
DD is coming up to 14 months and still has 2 x 8oz bottles of formula a day: 1 at 11am before her 2 hour nap of the day, and then another at 7pm before bed time. She was on 4 bottles a day at 12 months, but just after her birthday, I stopped both morning bottle as she was eating a whole bowl of porridge + yoghurt + banana, and I also dropped the 3pm bottle as she was dropping that nap anyway, so it seemed a good time to stop that bottle as well. She didn't complain; just upped her solids intake at lunch and dinner to see her through until her 7pm bed time bottle.
Anyway, I tried to then get her to take cow's milk in a cow-cup instead of formula in a bottle, and she just dribbled it all down her chin and then threw the cow-cup on the floor. She drinks water from a tommee-tippee quite happily (but not gallons of it). I didn't persevere as she then didn't go to sleep as normally she would, and for the easy life, I just gave her her formula in a bottle again so she happily went to sleep (I'm 36 weeks pregnant - am knackered enough as it is!)
So a few of questions:
-
When should DD be totally weaned onto cow's milk rather than formula? Am I worrying about nothing at the moment?
-
When should she be fully off a bottle for these feeds - and on to a cow cup? Or does it not really matter?
-
When should she be having just solids and snacks and no bottles / cow-cups of formula / milk at all?
On top of having this baby in 4 weeks time, we're also moving to Africa in August as a family, so am not keen to do anything too drastic which makes my life even more hectic; however, I don't think you can buy formula where we're going (Sudan) so maybe I should crack this milk thing before we go instead of carting tons of the stuff over there with us? Will be ex BF-ing the newborn for at least 6 months so at least I don't have that to worry about - phew!
Sorry this is so long... any help gratefully received...