Advice for getting nearly 2 year old(!) to drop formula milk

[MrsMust]

My 22 month old won't drink cow's milk in her bottle. She's fine with cow's milk in say her porridge or with Weetabix but when it's time to go down for her nap or night time sleep she refuses it. She is also usually up once in the night and asks for milk. Again, starts crying or refuses cow's milk. She is otherwise a good "eater". She has good sized meals and snacks and generally enjoys her food. I don't think she asks for milk out of hunger but rather comfort as sometimes I can get away with giving her the tiniest amount of formula in the night and she will continue to suck an empty bottle to sleep.

Any advice on how to get her to take it would be greatly appreciated.

Can you start just mixing a bit of cows milk in with the formula, then in increasing amounts over time till its all cows milk?
(Full disclosure, I never needed to do this with my children but its how my vet suggested changing over our dogs food when he needed to change but was refusing 🤣)

I'd start by dropping the nighttime bottle. Once mine realised milk was not available at night they stopped asking for it pretty quickly.

This is a pretty gentle night weaning method. It's aimed at Women who Bf but the techniques are pretty adaptable.

Then, when you've cracked the night wakings I'd start by swapping a Floz of formula for full fat Cow's milk.

So if they currently have 8 floz in the bottle make up 7floz and add a floz ounce of Cow's milk. Keep it like this for a few days then swap out another floz.

They may accept it pretty quickly or it might take you a while but you should be on full fat Cow's milk pretty quickly. In fact you can give semi-skimmed if that's easier for you?

Do you warm it?

I’d start by getting rid of the bottles themselves and giving drinks in a free flow beaker, then tackle the formula/cows milk issue. The main issue is going to be that she’s falling asleep with a bottle in her mouth, which is bad for teeth and also makes night waking more likely as they then need this to re-settle when they wake overnight.