Cutting down milk

[MairyHole]

DS is 11 months and still having 4 milk feeds a day. First one breastfeed and the other 3 pumped. I estimate drinking around 600ml a day.

I really want to stop pumping as soon as he hits a year and move on to cows milk. I was thinking of replacing the 2 daytime feeds with cows milk over the next 3 weeks. But my mum thinks it's too much milk for a 12+ month old and that I should switch over to a solids snack like yoghurt, cheese and a piece of fruit instead. I'm worried he won't eat it as he's not fond of solids.

Does anyone have advice? Should I let him wean from milk himself or stop offering it so much? Also, is it ok if he does have 250ml of cows milk a day from 11.5 months?

DD moved from formula to soya milk at 11.5 in dietian advice. She said it was fine to move on at that age so I can’t see cow’s milk being a problem.

I would start to swap the pumped bottles for sippy cups of cows milk with a snack for mid morning and mid afternoon. You may find he reduces the amount of milk he is taking straight away. For them sake of your boob and mastitis risk you may need to slowly reduce the amount of milk you are pumping.

He needs 350mg of calcium a day. That is 3 portions of diary/alternative.

DO what's right for your son when he's ready.

I could have written the same at 11mo to be honest. Then just around his birthday he's dropped to sometimes on waking, one or two in the day, bedtime and the night feeds. He's really increased how much he takes solids wise and has 6-8oz cow milk in a sippy cup some days.