How much milk for a 1 year old?

[BlueyDragon]

DD is 13 months and was, until about a week ago, on 3x7oz bottles of cows' milk a day. We've dropped the afternoon one but tbh she doesn't seem that interested in the evening one either. Unless she sees a bottle, she doesn't really ask for it. Is it too early to get her to drop bottles altogether? There's something in Annabel Karmel about needing 400ml a day, but my copy is quite old so may not be up to date. Advice please!

Yes, just 200 ml morning and evening should do. If not drinking much, offer lots of nice yog (no sugar!)

350-600mls is recommended from the age of 1 (12-20oz approx), but that amount includes milk in cereal, in foods, in cooking and other dairy products too so it doesnt all have to be in the form of a drink. Have you tried offering milk in a lidded beaker? My ds took his morning and night milk from a beaker from 10 1/2 months but he would drink anything out of any cup (especially if it doesnt belong to him!!)

My DD is 14 months and hates cows milk, I stopped breastfeeding her at a year and she still refuses to take a bottle.
I just ensure she has plenty of yoghurts,milky cereals etc

I have a DS2 (17 months) who's not that keen on milk either. He sometimes has 4 oz in the morning, and then between nothing and 8 oz in the evening (really variable!). So he never drinks anything like 12oz as straight milk. I just make sure he eats milk on cereal in the morning, has yoghurt, cheese etc, so I think he's getting enough. You can't force her to drink milk, you can only carry on offering it to her. Also, ime, she may decide next week to be interested again. You never know!

It's not that she won't drink it, she will down it without a pause (a great university career awaits her), but she doesn't really "ask" for it. She just goes mental for a bottle when she sees one (that comment about the university career is still true), so if I didn't offer it to her I don't think she'd miss it. But you've answered my question - she should have milk if she'll drink it. She's at nursery full time, so I don't really have control over her dairy intake there (although they do usually give her something dairy each day). Seona, I'll try the beaker but last time I tried something with a hard spout she went crackers; she'll drink anything else out of a cup/hard spout beaker, but not milk.

Thanks everyone!

Just to give u a comparison Bluey, DS is 13 months too, he has beaker (the tommy tippee non-spill one) of cow's milk in the mornings, which he sometimes has all of and sometimes hardly any, plus cow's milk on his cereal. Then dairy products during the day, more if he's not had much milk at breakfast but basically around 1 portion cheese and one of yogurt/fromage frais/rice pud. Then 8oz bottle cow's milk before bed. We were also doing an afternoon milk feed until a few weeks ago but basically once we switched to cow's milk I decided it was too much of a faff to worry about when out in the day (compared to taking formula powder and water separately which I had been doing) so that feed became a snack plus drink of water!