Weaning from Formula to Milk

There are days when my daughter doesn't want to drink her milk, so I try harder to make sure she has a reasonable amount of yogurt that day (and I buy plain unflavored yogurt and mix fresh fruit to it so I don't add too much sugar into her diet). If she's still thirsty, she always can drink water (I leave a cup of water out for her all the time that she can reach herself). Maybe you can try a straw cup. When my daughter was making the transition from bottles to sippies, she always drank water from a straw cup and her milk from a sippy. A few months later she was able to go back and forth without a problem. Straw cups are supposed to be better for mouth muscle development anyway.

My daughter is also one just turned 1 on August 6, I have started to feed her Enfamil Next Step for 9mnths and up in her sippy cup or at night in her bottle. She It is just as nutritionally balanced as infant formula and has more vitamins and more calcium then regular milk. I also give her about 4 oz of gerdber fruit juice a day,and wated which she loves andich my pediatrician says is very good for her. He did say becarful with too much water as it can have the oposite effect on a child and actually dehydrate them.

Hi K.,
Have you tried Soy Milk? My son didn't like milk, so I was told to try soy and he liked it. We used it for a couple months and gradually switched to regular milk.
My youngest, now almost 3, did the same thing. She didn't like whole milk, so we tried soy, but I bought vanilla flavored by accident. We kept with that for about a year or so and now drinks whole milk even though she still doesnt like the tast much. I add about a teaspoon of flavored coffee creamer, she likes cinnamon creme, vanilla, and irish cream.
Try juice in her cuppy, and milk, too. You just may have to find something she likes.

I found that having specific 'milk cups'--that my son only used for milk helped a lot.
Also, my doctor recommended mixing formula and milk together using a little less formula each time until my so was drinking all milk. He drank half milk half formula for about a month, then 2/3 milk 1/3 formula then all milk.

1.how long has she been rejecting her formula.
2.have there been any reactions to her formula.
3.does she like any other fluid, such as liquid yogurt,
4. does her formula contain cow milk already.

I had the same problem with my son at 9 months. He did not want to nurse anymore and refused formula. The pediatrician said to go ahead and give him milk and he refused that as well. I found he ate enough fruits, vegetables and meat that the lack of milk was not a nutritional problem for him. He had enough variety in his other foods. He also would drink 2 liters of water everyday. When my daughter was ready to wean from the breast I purchased different sippy cups for her milk. That seemed to work for us. Some kids associate certain cups with certain drinks if that is what has always been given to them. She was willing to drink milk out of the new cups but never out of the old ones that she always had her water in. Maybe that will help. I would not stress out about it if your daughter is getting plenty of other fluids and eating a good variety of foods. Milk is not the "miracle" food that everyone thinks it is . My son is probably the healthiest out of my three children and he very rarely drinks milk at all and is now 7 years old.

My daughter is 13 mon. We just switched from formula to cows milk. We first started with 2% because I didn't want to buy two different milks... until speaking to our pediatrician. I thought the fat in whole milk was to add weight, however the fat is for brain development. We switched. We began with 4 oz of milk in the morning (plain milk not a mixture,) formula the rest of the time. Which was actually just at bedtime for us. She went down to one formula bottle a day, bedtime, 8oz. So milk in the morning, water/juice at lunch and in between, then add another 4 oz of milk at dinner (eventually, after tolerating the milk at breakfast,) then formula at bedtime. Our pediatrician said that babies do not need as much milk as we think, just three small glasses probably about 12 oz a day. We just stopped with the bottle/formula at bedtime. She misses it but it isn't stopping her from going to sleep and she doesn't seem to be hungery. We offer her a drink of water before bed, nothing in between dinner and bedtime (our Ped. says this will help them get used to not having liquids late or before bed and will help in potty training and night time bedwetting when the time comes.) Anyhow, just start with one glass of milk in the morning then add lunch and dinner and other drinks in between. Also, our daughter didn't like the taste of the whole milk but she did the 2%. I heard a number of things. We try to go with the healthiest. Add formula, which to me defeats the purpose of weaning off the formula, but now that I think about it, it would probably help with the digestion issues of whole milk. You would slowly decrease the formula. I am just kind of an "all or nothing" mom and I tend to just go for it, that being said our daughter had diarrhea for a few days in the beginning. I just refused to buy another container of formula. We also heard you can add carnation mix with the milk for taste. I am not so sure about this, I don't want her demanding chocolate milk... and don't know how much sugar is in the mix. I add a few spoons of strawberry yogurt or yogurt smoothie and mix, she loves it. We already keep it so it's not something extra that I have to buy. Any pureed fruit would work, just a small amount for flavor. This may be unconventional and maybe not pediatrician approved, but in small amounts. I drink ensure and muscle milk, both low in sugar and high in protein and I have added both, a few tablespoons to her milk. They come in 3 or 4 flavors and we don't have to buy anything special since we have it on hand. About 4 weeks in I started giving her plain milk, no added flavors and she drank it just fine.
Christine
Oh, at 12 mon. we were told she had to have vitamins. Liquid drops about $4 at walgreens. But I know many parents who's Ped. did not recommend any form of vitamin. They cant hurt, so why not. Either way I think your daughter will be fine.