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20 months old refusing milk

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piscis · 28/02/2019 11:28

My DD (nearly 21 months old) has been having one bottle in the morning and one at night until recently. Despite the advice of stopping the bottles at 1yo I never found it was a good time to do it (either she was poorly, or we were going on holidays, teeth coming out) so I continued with the bottles and she was loving them.

The all of a sudden she is plain refusing the bottles, it is literally impossible to make her take one. If I offer milk from a cup she drinks a couple of sips and that's it, she is just not interested. This has been so sudden!. She is still having yogurt and cheese though, is that enough to cover her daily needs? What are your experiences with this? I guess this is part of a natural process and that at her age if she doesn't want to drink it is that she doesn't need it anymore? I am really confused about this sudden change, is this normal?

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jomaIone · 28/02/2019 11:37

Is it forumla or cow's milk?

piscis · 28/02/2019 11:42

cow's milk. She has been having cow's milk from 1yo

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PlinkPlink · 28/02/2019 11:44

DS doesn't actually like milk 😱

He still bfs at nap time and night time but he's just never taken to it.

We've tried it. And we've tried adding strawberry milkshake flavour.

So I make sure he has porridge every morning and has a decent amount of cheese too.

I need to get some more yoghurt in him though.

Any deficiency can be picked up with vitamin drops.

AnnaComnena · 28/02/2019 11:46

I've never liked milk to drink. Couldn't force school milk down. My mother tells me I refused it from when I was a toddler, As long as she's getting it in other ways I wouldn't worry. As well as yogurts, cheese and butter, would she like things like stewed fruit with custard? Will she take it on cereal? Or milkshake? I did like banana shake made in a blender. You could try other fruits too.

piscis · 28/02/2019 11:53

Mine has milk with her porridge too, so roughly she is having 200ml with her porridge and some greek yogurt (120-150ml) daily. Then sometimes she also has cottage cheese/hard cheese pieces or soft cheese sandwiches. Does this sound like enough?

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dementedpixie · 28/02/2019 14:51

From age 1 they only need around 300mls to drink or the equivalent in other dairy products

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