My son is 9 1/2 months old and has decided he doesn't want to drink much milk anymore. Send him to daycare with 8 ounces and he will drink about 1 1/2 to 2 ounces with meal and then they mix with oatmeal or Cheerios 2 ounces so he gets more. Drinks through sippy/ straw cup just fine. Takes water great but just not interested in the milk anymore, tried formula and same thing. I just dried up a couple of days ago so he is not breastfeeding ( was only pumping 1/2 ounce in a 9 hour period and he weaned Himself about a month ago. Still have frozen milk and I always offer him it, but he just don't want it. Not sure what to do, want to make sure he is getting everything he needs. Military doctor said just feed him food and make sure he at least gets water then.
I am not giving my son cows milk just so everyone knows that. And I have been giving mix of breast/formula, I offer it to him every three hours and I also mixed with Cheerios oatmeal whatever I can mix it with.
this is very common if they are getting teeth, it will pass, just keep offering it, mix it with infant cereal in the mean time so he still gets the nutrients from it
I have seen this in numerous children, they all go back to drinking it again
the amount of things they get from breastmilk and formula are too numerous too list, just keep offering it and giving it with cereal
Dairy, orange juice (don't bother with the extra calcium kind - oranges naturally contain calcium, strange as that sounds), and dark greens will give him all the calcium he needs.
from a varied and balanced diet, which according to your SWH he already gets.
your pediatrician isn't worried.
why do you think he's got a calcium deficiency?
khairete
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You will want to check with your pedistrician, but I mixed their baby cereal with milk to make it, and i gave mine plain yogurt at that age. They loved it. But that was quite a while ago - not sure what they recommend now. I find it changes so better to ask your doctor.
He drinks cow's milk and eats yogurt, he is getting calcium.
I think you really have to work with the pediatrician on this when you have an infant. There's a lot more in breast milk than calcium, first of all. Why have you singled out this one element? Has he been shown to have a deficiency? What have you already discussed with the doctor about foods that contain calcium?
If you single out one vitamin or mineral and try to load up on that, you can cause more harm than good. I work in food science, and while there is no question that American diets are significantly deprived (and virtually no experts, including the AMA, think you can get everything you need by "eating right" anymore), I get very concerned when someone focuses on a particular compound as needing a boost. I only recommend a comprehensive supplement (no warning labels, no standard supermarket vitamins), never something that upsets the balance by being heavy on one or two things. A good example is "Vitamin Water" - one flavor has Vitamin C and something else, another has Vitamin A and something else....big marketing scam and a whole lot of expense for what cannot be absorbed because it's not complete. And it can be horrible for one's health.
If you can tell us more about what your child eats/doesn't eat (not just his likes but what the doctor has said not to give him)? Has there been any discussion of formula or any use of it so far? Lots of foods have calcium in them. Others have Vitamin A. Others have the B vitamins...and so on. Work on variety of textures, colors and flavors. Water is great - no juice at all is a good rule!
Anyway, if you elaborate more, it will help identify why calcium is a concern to you but not your doctor.
And if you find you rarely agree with your doctor, get another one.
Calcium is important for growth. If you're really concerned make sure you check the calcium content of the foods you give him and try to give him foods with higher concentration of calcium.
I assume you are giving your son formula. You'd have to be. Formula has plenty of calcium, so you have nothing to worry about! When he turns 1, you can look into giving him liquid calcium if you really don't think he's getting enough. But he should be fine now with his formula.
He should not be drinking cows milk at this age. He needs breastfeeding milk or formula, not for the calcium only. Formula has other nutrients required for brain development. I suggest that you've not given him enough time to adjust to formula. I'd keep trying. Since you have frozen breastfeeding milk, I suggest mixing formula and breastfeeding milk. I would also give him formula in his food.
I suggest not giving him cow's milk. It's recommended to not start with cow's milk until the baby is at least a year old.
