1 year old refusing formula and cows milk: is she getting enough calcium?

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I recently stopped breastfeeding my 1 year old DD. She has never had a bottle but drinks water from a 360 cup. My plan was after stopping breastfeeding to give her formula or cows milk in her cup per the general advice. However, she is totally refusing both.

I'm worried that she's not getting enough calcium. She has a large bowl of porridge for breakfast (made with whole cows milk), a pot of Greek yoghurt with fruit once a day, and also sometimes some cheese eg a Babybel or a rice cake with Philadelphia. Is that enough calcium? If not, can anyone suggest how to get more calcium into her, please? I can't find any calcium supplements for her age group online.

Any advice gratefully accepted!! TIA

Sounds like plenty to me. She's also possibly going on a milk strike. So you could keep offering. My DD was more of a lover of food than milk too. She only really started drinking cows milk when she was around 2.

Thanks @Bramblecrumble21 !

Try increasing the cheese. My dd could live on cheese if I let her. She sometimes likes drinking cow's milk, sometimes not - she prefers it very warm if that's worth a try?

Also there's a baby multivitamin by wellbaby but I don't know if it includes calcium

She needs 350mg of calcium a day.

You can’t get calcium supplements for that age but you can get forfeited cereals (bear one and ready brek), some bread and horlicks are forfeited.

It’s also worth offering oat milk (either M and S barista, Oatley barista or alpro growing up oat milk).

Our ds gave up milk at 10 months and no amount of persuading him would make him drink it 9 years later he still won’t touch it. We gave the obvious of cheese and yoghurts but also there are other food with it in. Green leafy vegetables and broccoli are high in it, we put chopped frozen spinach in everything and you can’t detect it in most things he now adores leafy green veg so eats a lot of it. Bread is also fortified with calcium.

This is all really helpful- thanks for all the advice 🙏🏻

My DS did the same, no cows milk to drink from 13 months when I gave up bf to 18 months when he saw grandpa drinking a cup of milk.

I didn't give calcium supplements, I just made sure he had porridge or cereal with for breakfast, yoghurt for pudding after lunch, cheese for a snack etc. Or pasta with cheese sauce or cauliflower cheese etc.