introducing cows milk....when? because my HV told me off

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ds is 10 months......
he is on three meals a day.....at morning and teatime he has formula milk, plus a bottle at bed time. i have been using cows milk in his porridge for a couple of months now....and recently started giving him 2oz of cows milk to drink at lunch.
he had his 8 month check today (yes they are running behind) and when she asked me about his diet she said i shouldn't be giving him cows milk to drink until he is a year old.
so am i really doing something wrong?

Cows milk is not recommended as a drink until 12mths, although it's fine to use in cooking and on cereal

BonyM is right. 12 months as a drink and 6 months in food is recommended.

Could you go back to formula for the lunchtime drink?

2 oz! And he's 10 months!

It's fine.

It shouldn't be his main beverage until a year, but 2 oz per day won't do him any harm at all. It'll help him get ready for moving entirely to cow's milk at a year.

oh rubbish

12 months in UK, 9 months in Oz

if he's had no intolerance to adding it to food then he'll be fine drinking it at 10 months

I went straight from bf to cow's milk with DD at 10.5 months

12 months is a catch-all

I think the best advice I could give you is stop seeing HVs ... never met a good one yet .. although have been told they do exist

and so did mears IIRC .. and mears is a midwife with 4 kids

Surely a small amount as a drink is the same as a small amount with cereal?

thankyou for the reassurance that i'm not harming my ds.

my HV has previously made a big deal about introducing cows milk to his diet to get his system used to it....and i don't see how drinking it is any different to using it on cereal. i am slightly annoyed that she picks and chooses which guidelines to dictate to me.....she advocated early weaning to try and control ds sickyness, but makes an issue of me giving him milk to drink.

grrrrr.....i'm stepping away from the thread before i start ranting about my HV

Rant away, I'll join you

my cousin's dt's had it from 6 months cos that was what the HV told her and those were the guidelines then. they are 4. look

Mixed cows' milk & formula with ds from 8 months (when he self-weaned from breast milk). No discernible problems - if it's OK on cereal, it's not going to be poisonous as the odd drink, surely?

Dd is now 7 months, has mixture of breast milk & formula. She had a feed of formula & cows' milk mixed yesterday, when dh ran out of formula. Again she's been used to it for the last month on weetabix.

So far she appears not to have exploded/come out in green spots/called childline...