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Full fat milk and toddler

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Cupofmilkandabiscuit · 30/05/2024 21:35

My toddler is 2 years and 9 months old.

Tonight husband brought in gold top milk for him and said they were out of full fat milk in the shop. I reckoned he'll love it but it's too rich to just drink from a cup. Probably nice to put in his porridge for a change and use up. I said if there's ever no blue top, just get semi-skimmed. Toddler has happily had a cup of my skimmed or oat milk in a pinch before so I know he wouldn't mind the semi at all.

Got me thinking though. At what age should you switch to semi skimmed for kids? For reference my son eats very well, loves to drink milk (I'd say 1 or 2 toddler cup sized portions in a day on average) but also gets dairy in cheese and yoghurts which he loves. I have no idea what he weighs. He's always been small but he is bloody solid built and clearly very healthy and active.

Should I be switching to semi-skimmed or carry on with full fat ... until what age?

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Mysticalwisteria · 31/05/2024 08:29

Mysticalwisteria · 30/05/2024 23:44

No they have autism so can be really fussy with food. We tried to transfer both from formula to cows milk at 1 and both did the same thing and refused and got really dehydrated. At that point we were on stage 2 aptamil so ended up putting each onto stage 3 toddler instead. 6 y o is now only having a little cup at bedtime but 3 y o is having a beaker with breakfast lunch and dinner and won’t give it up and hardly eats anything else with that much nutrition in 😭 hopefully we get there eventually they just both hated cows milk

It’s honestly fine I understand Why you asked as it is a bit unusual !

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