non milk drinking 13 month old

[littleomar]

previously an enthusiastic consumer of breastmilk from source - i never got him to take formula or expressed milk from a cup or a bottle.

i stopped feeding him just before his first birthday expecting he'd finally give in. we offer cow's milk in a cup (he has no problems drinking water from a cup) and he'll have a couple of sips then refuse any more. nursery do a bit better but the most he's ever drunk is about 50ml.

health visitor reckons he'll be OK if i can get two portions of milk a day down him in food and we manage that (yoghurt, rice pudding, cheese sauce or cereal).

is that really enough?

yup. my 2nd daughter was the same and as she loves cheese/yoghurt, we just make sure she takes enough of them... also offer homemade yoghurt drinks/shakes with pureed fruit and added milk.

My DGS is like this, bf for England, but won't contemplate milk apart from yoghurt, custard etc - and that only recent. He loves to drink my tea from my cup which is extra milky and very weak tea. One day we may con him into drinking even weaker, milkier tea from his beaker. At the moment its nothing at all except water, his choice not mums

There are plenty of other sources of calcium so I really wouldn't worry about dairy - another animal's milk isn't a requirement for a healthy diet :)

im still bf my 13 month old who also will not drink milk any other way. I plan to stop when he is over the recent illness he has had.

It's good to hear that it doesnt really matter if he drinks cows milk or not as I just assumed it would be a huge problem if he didnt!