9 months and refusing Milk! Help!!

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DS has been weaned for a while and is eating really well, 3 meals a day of home cooked food. He loves eating. He has a sippy cup with watered down juice or water in during the day. Some times he used to want a bottle of milk in the afternoon, but really the only time he would want any milk is at bed time. These last few days he has been refusing to touch his bottle, even if he wakes up at 4am. I managed to get 3oz of cows milk down him yesterday night after waking up for the 3rd time after bed time. I know he still needs his formula, but he just won't touch it! Any suggestions?
Last night, he finally settled at 8pm having woken 3 or 4 times, and then slept right through till 7 am. He used to go down so well with a bottle, then only wake at 10 or 11 for some more milk, then sleep through till morning.
Are we just going through a transition phase?
PS, mum told me that I went right off milk at a similar age. Still cant drink the stuff. Is he doing the same as me, or could it just be a phase.

My DS is almost a year and also started to be difficult about milk feeds at this age. Like you, I dislike milk and wondered if this was also his issue. Guidelines suggest 20oz of milk per day up to 12 months and DS would not take as much as this once I had begun to feed him three solid meals a day.

I coped with this by offering milk in a sippy cup, about an hour before lunch (after some trial and error, we like the Nuby silicone-teated cup from Boots). He didn't take much, but it was something. I upped his dairy intake with his food (extra cheese, milk, yoghurt) - all dairy counts! I also started giving him vitamin drops so that I was confident he was getting the right nutrients.

It sounds like your DS is missing his bedtime bottle - have you tried offering it from an alternative cup (sippy, doidy...loads to choose from)?

He still doesn't take much milk from his bottle - probably about 12oz all day - but he's happy, healthy, putting on weight and I take the view that I can't force the stuff into him, so I'm not going to lose too much sleep over it.

My DD refused milk at 8-9 months. We did see a nutritionist (she had bad reflux and was tiny but that isn't relevant here) who said not having milk didn't matter as long as she would eat yogurt, cheeses, etc. I gave her lots of yogurt, Macaroni Cheese, rice pudding, cheese on toast, stir creme friche into tomato sauce, etc and she was fine. In fact by 12 months she was back on the 50th centile and not tiny any more!

Your DS may be going through a phase or may have decided other foods are tastier than milk, but it shouldn't really be a problem.