Apologies if this has been done to death many times before..
I'm going to start weaning my DTs this weekend when they are six months old. As I understand it, I can use breastmilk, formula or cow's milk when it's mixed in with food - cereals/purees/meals etc. It's just that I can't use cow's milk as their source of milk until they are one.
So the cheapest and easiest thing seems to be cow's milk in food.
However, my DTD is a bottle refuser and although I'm hoping we overcome this one way or the other at some point, if we didn't, the logic seems to be that if I need to leave her then I should breastfeed her morning/evening/during night and then during the day get milk into her through food. So would that milk only 'count' if it's formula? Or does it not matter?
Hope this makes some sense! 