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15 month olds - milk?!?

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Chigertick · 12/06/2012 21:18

I wonder of anyone can offer some advice? My DTs are 15 months (13 corrected). We did BLW and they LOVE their food!
On a typical day they have cereal e.g. Weetabix or porridge for breakfast
Lunch is a pasta dish or curry and rice or homemade kievs with veg and potato etc i.e. whatever we're having with fruit and milky pudding e.g. Home made rice pudding or custard or Greek yoghurt with puréed fruit etc
"tea" is sandwiches or wraps or a roll, fruit, yoghurt
They have water with all meals
In between this they have about 2oz milk about 9am
Fruit and e.g. Malt loaf or a biscuit or tea bread or breadsticks at 11 and 3.30 ish again with water.
We were offering them milk after tea they weren't taking any more than 2 or 3 oz but then were taking ages to settle for bed as they seemed to be sooo windy and needed to bring up wind before they could go to sleep.
So tonight we've put them to bed with no milk - it didn't seem to bother them and they settled down straight away.
So (well done for getting this far btw!).... Do they really need their before bed milk? Is it ok to just cut it out completely? Or should I try and offer it with one of their snacks?
Thanks for reading.

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milamum · 13/06/2012 14:06

I wouldn't worry if they are not asking for it. My DD (15 months) refused her bedtime milk when she was around 10 - 11 months (she still was getting the required amount throughout the day though). A couple of months ago, she's pretty much refused most milk we try to give her during / after meals (she would now have max 1 -2 ounces with each of her meals) but I'm not worried as she gets milk in her morning porridge/cereal and eats plenty of yogurts and cheese during the day so is getting the required amount of calcium/vitamins that way. Accoring to the NHS, babies between 1 and 3 years old need 350mg of calcium per day which is approx 300ml (just over half a pint) of milk and it sounds like your DTs are eating very well and get enough calcium with their cereal / milky puddings and yogurts. Here is a good link www.nnuh.nhs.uk/docs%5Cleaflets%5C197.pdf

Chigertick · 13/06/2012 21:43

Thanks for your response - I will check out the link.

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