Baby is refusing cows milk!

Miss_Cinnabon

I think i will try him again with the cup as hv told us just to stick to bottles at night. I will try the cup that he has to suck as he doesn't like the other kind at all!

Thanks

across

yep keep up the cow milk i would say it is could be probably not quite the right temperature as my little girls were both very fussy about it!!!if i did get it just right they wouldnt drink it no fooling them at all!!! practise makes perfect though so keep trying!! good luck dont panic and take care!!

jellyhead

could you give follow on milk for bedtime and cows milk the rest of the time maybe? my baby prefers the kind of sippy cup that the water just pours out of the hole in the spout from, not the sucky ones he hates those. babies have different preferences, it might take yours a while to find an 'acceptable' cup. he only has water from the cup though, milk is still in bottles and although i see the sense in what the health visitor says i couldn't give a monkeys if my baby is slower to do what others do. he was a late feeder, most other babies were on 3 meals a day at a few weeks or months old, despite being told to wait until 6 months. i think that the babies who did wait until 6 months take a little extra time to get into the routine that the health visitors suggest, with dropping milk feeds etc.

the makers of follow on are good at making us think that the baby will get iron deficiency though :rolleyes: it depends on what they're eating. peas and broccoli are good, as is meat. i'm not going to put my baby on follow on actually, he gets plenty of iron in his food and the iron in follow on is poorly absorbed anyway because it's the wrong kind. it makes him constipated.

did i read correctly that your baby is still on fruit purees? what about veg and meat?

also you might find your baby doesn't like lumpy purees but will eat ordinary food instead. mine won't touch lumpy baby food but will take whole fruit and veg off us. he eats bananas, whole blackberries, orange segments etc.and well cooked broccoli, carrots, peas etc. and bread/toast soldiers.

Miss_Cinnabon

Well he took cows milk in his bottle tonight but woke up due to very sore teeth! i tried him with a cup today but with no luck will keep at at it though.

He was mainly taking fruit based, puddings he wasn't taking much meat purees but i now give him what we eat, he loves his toast though - he loves to take his dads toast as well he suffered a lot from constipation i assume this was from the follow on so will see how he gets on with cows milk.

Thanks for the replys.

across

glad to see things are going well he sounds very cute have fun! x

Lillys_mum

I agree with spendless above. Mix it gradually so he wont notice too much difference, if he still does then maybe he just doesn't like the taste of it. Try adding a little bit of milkshake powder to it to see if that helps.
I had this problem with my middle child, she was breastfed until 16 months and wouldn't drink any other milk at all - to this day she wont drink it and reluctantly has it on her cereal, she is now 5 and is a happy healthy child. So don't worry too much about it.
Who said having kids was easy!!!

busymumof3

When I moved my eldest on to cows milk it was a straight switch from formula to cows milk and he had a fairly bad reaction. His face went all dry, itchy and scaley. With the other two I did 1/3 cows milk, 2/3 formula and gradually built up. Neither had any reaction to it but the youngest certainly objected to cows milk. It took several weeks of gradually cutting down the amount of formula to get him fully on cows milk.

Miss_Cinnabon

He is taking it now, have stopped the follow on so just on cows milk.

I was worried he would have a reaction as he suffers from excema but okay so far, he has been having very stinky nappies though!

busymumof3

Oh that's great. Well done! I know sometimes mine just wind me around their little fingers. Sometimes it pays to just persevere!

I need to stick to my guns about stopping my newly turned two's bedtime bottle. He just says no and hands me back the cup of milk. He prefers cuddling down with his bottle and "sleepy cushion". I had set myself the Easter break to crack it but no success so far - he'd rather go without!

onestep

hiya..

my dd didn't like cow's milk at first either - so now I give her 'yohgurty milk', which is basically half a pot of fromage frais and some milk all mixed up, and she guzzles it down. She still won't drink warm milk before bedtime, but hey, small steps! My advice is keep trying, but don't get stressed about it!

hope that helps

onestep