Getting 1 year old off formula

[agirlcalledsandoz]

My DD has just turned 1 and us still having 3 bottles if formula a day as well as 3 meals but she seems to mess about with her food more than eat it. I want to get her off the formula so how do I do this ? Just put cows milk in her bottle ? Or mix half formula half cows milk for a bit until she gets used to it ? I am hoping when she stood the formula she will eat better.

We belatedly weaned DS off his last bottle of formula at 18mo by gradual dilution: firstly 6oz formula w 1oz cows milk for a few days, then 2+5 etc till it was all cows milk in the bottle.

I just stopped offering a lunchtime bottle at about the same point as you: instead sharing an early-ish lunch seemed to fill him up, he got more interested in food the less milk he drank. The next bottle to go was first thing where he just lost interest so we went straight to breakfast.

At bedtime now, he'll have a couple of ounces of cows milk but nothing like the volume of formula he'd have had in a bottle. I try to remain relax as he has plenty of other calcium etc in his diet through cheese, yogurt, green veg etc.

At the moment she has a bottle mid morning, mid afternoon then before bed. If she wakes in the night will just give her water and she has juice or water in a sippy cup with her meals. In the last week we have been giving her snacks when she takes her between meals bottle but she still wants the bottle afterwards. Thanks will try mixing it with cows milk this week and see how she goes

Ok so it might work to offer a (substantial-ish) snack mid-morning eg a banana, piece of cheese or a slice of toast before the bottle: if I'd had a big bottle before lunch I'd probably not want to eat much of it and be hungry again for something mid afternoon hence taking the later bottle. Again, it might be snack time then, too. Until fairly recently teething played havoc with DS's appetite for solid food, too: so if I knew he was hungry but too tired, say, I'd occasionally offer a bottle that was quickly sunk.

When we've hit a sticky patch, I revert to nursery feed times: 11.30 lunch and 4.30 tea. A bit early for me but when you're on the go like a toddler they seem to be hungry times.

Sorry what I meant to acknowledge was if you're offering the snack first then the bottle, over time she's likely to take less milk. Foods still only just for fun! Plus I think plain cows milk is less exciting that formula which seemed to turn into "vanilla milkshake" when I started on the (cheaper) 1+ range.

With DD, we used up the last of the formula, then her next lot of milk was cow's milk. Didn't bother with mixing/gradual cutting down.

She now gets her lunch at 12 and dinner at half 5 when my DH gets in from work. MIL looks after her during the day so will ask her to do lunch at half 11 and dinner at half 4. She normally wants a bottle about half ten then 3 so if we could hold off by giving her a snack then her meals earlier that might work as she'll be hungry for her meals.

I'm in same boat we tried to switch last month when DS turned 1 but he immediately got constipated he now has 1 ff and milk a day at morning and bedtime he has cow milk in breakfast but if we switch the ff to milk he gets bunged again!!

I have a 99th centile monster baby but found with an increase to snack size he did t miss his daytime bottles

Thanks for the replies. I've started doing her bottles 5oz formula and 2oz cows milk. She hasn't noticed so going to gradually cut it down every week until it's all cows milk.