bottle - sippie / formula - milk

[MommyX3]

Ok need some thoughts... Samantha turned 1 on Sat. but she doesn't go for her 1yr pe till Tues. I just ran out of formula.. I think it would be ok to switch to D milk now without the blessing of the Ped.

Also had planned to toss the bottles with the formula cans.. and start off with milk in sippies...

What do you all think? To pushy? Or good idea?

Thanks

[lisamarie]

Christine...

I would think its fine to start her on the milk. And its fine to start her on teh sippys.

Porkchop drinks a water/juice(bad I know) mixture once a day and she loves her sippy..but she dont like her formula. Im hopin when she switches to milk sinec its cold she will like it too.

With Lucy she still drank milk from a bottle for awhile..and then she wouldnt take a sippy...we eventually had to get the sports straw sippys.

I would just try the sippy out with hte milk and see how she does..just dont push her.

Hard to beleive our girls are /almost 1!

[bays mom]

Christine- we also started on vitamin D milk early, I think by two weeks. You know when we went to Tys one year check up our ped never even said anything about switching over to milk. As far as the sippy cups, Tyler is still on bottles, he just doesn't want to take as much milk from the sippy as he would a bottle. From his sippy he will take a few drinks and that is it, but with his bottle he will sit and drink till he is full. I don't know...maybe that is the way it is suppose to be? Do you know how much milk a one year old should be drinking? Maybe I should do away with the bottles?? Sorry I just asked more questions than I answered, but I had been wondering about the sippy/bottle thing also.

[MommyX3]

Funny Tonya--
I'm not sure about the amount of milk they should have. Guess I should ask at her check-up..

[Leslie]

Our ped had us to change from formula to milk slowly. We had to start off by mixing one bottle half and half. The next day we did two bottles half and half and so on until we had her totally on milk.

As for tossing the bottles, has she been drinking from a sippy cup at all? If not, I wouldn't get rid of the bottle yet. We started Arianna with a sippy cup around six or seven months just letting her drink what she wanted from it here and there. We ended up having to go with the straw cups that Lisa mentioned above, because she would not drink much from a spouted cup. She was totally off a bottle by 13 months. Anyway, like I said if she hasn't been using a cup I don't think I'd ditch the bottle cold turkey.

As for how much milk a one year old should have, I've asked that question a million times. Arianna did not like formula and she doesn't like milk much better. We sometimes struggle to get 12 oz of milk down her a day. She'll drink water but just doesn't care much for milk. Our ped said if we could get 12 oz of milk, two cups of yogurt and a piece of Kraft American cheese down her a day we should be fine. I also read in my what to expect the toddler years book that they should have four severings of calcium a day. Six oz of milk is one serving. Four oz of yogurt is one serving. I think the Kraft American cheese has 5 oz.

[Terra]

Toddlers need anywhere from 12-20oz of milk a day, not counting any other form of dairy. My Ped. said not to give her any more than 20oz of milk per day. I offer Piper 3 6oz cups a day so she drinks about 15oz. She rarely drinks the entire cup all 3 times.
I agree with Leslie--if you haven't been giving her a sippy before now, I would not go cold turkey to sippy cups. She wouldn't really know how to drink from them. I started giving Piper one at 5 months because she wouldn't leave my cup alone! She took to them quickly, so at 7 1/2 months I took her bottles away. Didn't see a need when she was drinking so much from her cup. I would offer her formula out of the cup 1st and see how much she takes. Then I would give the rest of it in her bottle. Try that for a few days and see how that works. And also make the transition to milk slowly if you have too. I offered Piper a cup of cold whole milk and she liked it from the very beginning so I never had to mix hers. Lucky I know. Good luck with it.

[MommyX3]

Thanks for the advise... I couldn't bring myself to buy another $20. can of formula.. She's been trying to use sippies of water in the past but Rebecca 3yr old keeps takeing them away from her, (she was not happy about giving hers up 6mo ago.)

Well we did the cold turkey.. and cold milk :lol: I gave her a sippie at lunch with the Dmilk in a sippie. She did great! and she ate most of her lunch (jar of turkey and rice) Before I laid her down for bed she burped and it smelled like cured milk.. I guess its no worse than formula.. Sounds like I need to keep track of how much she's drinking...

THANKS!!

[Sherri]

Arianna did not like formula and she doesn't like milk much better. We sometimes struggle to get 12 oz of milk down her a day. She'll drink water but just doesn't care much for milk.

Ava's too little for milk, so I have no experience yet in making the switch, but I have a little different perspective on this because I hate the taste of plain milk! When I was younger, I had milk intolerance (and I think I still do a little bit) and I never learned to like it. I love dairy products and hot chocolate, but I HATE plain milk. My parents, bless their hearts, had us on Soyalac in our breakfast cereal for our entire childhoods! (My bro also had milk intolerance). I am so glad that soy milk is now sold for adults, not just in formula, it's all I eat on my cereal in the morning to this day! Now they make it enriched with all the vitamins that are in regular milk so I think it's okay for one-year-olds, too? Maybe Arianna would like soy milk better, too? Again, we're not there yet with Ava so I don't know what peds think of soy milk (rather than soy formula) as an alternative to cow's milk.

Is it really unusual to hate the taste of milk straight up? I was always the only kid I knew that hated it, and people still think it's strange....

[lisamarie]

Sherri...My dh wont drink it either. lol

[Bella923]

Sherri:

I am the same way!!! lol!!!

[MommyX3]

My nieces and nephew will not drink milk either but my older 2 love it!

Funny thing (not really when it happened) on the way to peds today like 60seconds away.. I heard from the backseat gag then the curds starting coming up and the smell ugg (tmi?) So we canceled that appt. Thankfully my folks have a store around the corner and I went there to clean samantha up along with the carseat uggg... She now sleeping. no fever.. I'm believe it was the milk, but the nurse said the flu is going around, so just do bland today and reintro milk slowly I suggest with water added to dilute it, but she seemed to want it back to full strength in the next day or so.. SO what if it was the milk? What does she get instead? Oh and ofcourse before we left dh changed a stinky messy diaper (again with the details)

[bays mom]

I hate it..blah! Will drink chocolate though!

[Leslie]

When I was younger, I had milk intolerance (and I think I still do a little bit) and I never learned to like it. I love dairy products and hot chocolate, but I HATE plain milk.

Maybe Arianna would like soy milk better, too?

Sherri we had to put Arianna on Lactose Free formula when she was six weeks old (I was pumping & feeding bm until then), because of an intolerance to lactose. I've often wondered if she doesn't like the milk because she still has problems with the lactose. I mentioned to DH several times about trying the soy, but he's not convinced it's a lactose thing. I also think he read something at some point saying that soy messed with hormones. Don't quote me on that though, because I just remember him saying something in passing. I may just buy the soy to see if she likes it better.

Christine it's hard to say if it's the milk or something else, but if she has no other flu symptoms my guess is on the milk. Arianna had a reaction like that to eggs when I tried her on them. It took me giving them to her three times and her throwing up all over the place about 30 minutes to an hour later before I figured it out. Her daddy HATES eggs, so I wonder if he has an intolerance to them too. Anyway I haven't reintroduced eggs yet. My ped wants me to, but I think I'm going to wait a little longer. As for what can she drink if she has a milk intolerance... as Sherri was talking about above it would be soy milk.

[Leslie]

Ok... can someone tell me how to get my quotes to say Sherri wrote: or whoever I'm quoting wrote instead of just quote. I'm am so bulletin board illiterate.

[Preemienurse]

Ok... can someone tell me how to get my quotes to say Sherri wrote: or whoever I'm quoting wrote instead of just quote. I'm am so bulletin board illiterate.

In the post you're quoting, hit the "quote" button on the top right of that post and it will automatically include the name of the person you're replying to, as well as the quote.

[MommyX3]

Ok now she feels warm.. so guess it wasn't milk but maybe a bug...

[Terra]

I don't like plain milk either. Bleh! Sometimes chocolate milk, but even that is not my favorite. I'll have milk with cold cereal or in foods, but I do not drink it.

[Sherri]

I'm concerned that Ava may have a lactose intolerance issue, too, because last week I had hot chocolate in the evenings for a few days (the real stuff, with milk), and I started getting an upset stomach and really sore butt, and at the same time Ava got a severe rash on her butt, worst I've ever seen. I stopped drinking hot chocolate, and I feel better, and her rash has cleared up. Neither of us react when I eat lots of cheese or yogurt, but I read that the cooking process changes the lactose enzymes making them easier to tolerate.

Anyway, I was researching soy milk & toddlers yesterday after I posted, and I found a lot on the web -- this one seems the most informative and reasonable, to me: http://www.babycenter.com/expert/baby/babyfeeding/1200462.html

Question: I've heard that soy milk contains hormones. Are they safe for my toddler to ingest?

Answer: Soy milk does contain phytoestrogens (an estrogen-like hormone found in plants such as whole grains, potatoes, dried beans, and apples), but there's no scientific evidence to date that drinking soy milk is harmful to children or adults. People have been drinking soy milk since the 1960s without ill effect. In fact, many brands of soy milk highlight the fact that they contain isoflavones, phytoestrogens that may lower blood cholesterol levels in adults. Soy milk is a good alternative for children over a year old who won't drink or are allergic to cows' milk. Just be sure to buy the vitamin-fortified whole-fat variety to make sure your child is getting the nutrients she needs.

Also make sure your child's diet contains other sources of calcium-rich or calcium-fortified foods because soy milk contains phytates, naturally occurring substances found in whole-grain foods, legumes, and nuts that can decrease the absorption of calcium and other minerals. While the label on a container of fortified soy milk may say that an 8-ounce glass contains 200 to 300 mg of calcium, the phytates can prevent your child from absorbing that full amount. Studies have found that the body absorbs only about 75 percent of the calcium from soy milk. Calcium-rich or fortified foods include broccoli, kale, lime-processed tortillas, yogurt, cheese, and calcium-fortified juices, cereals, waffles, and breakfast bars.

[Leslie]

In the post you're quoting, hit the "quote" button on the top right of that post and it will automatically include the name of the person you're replying to, as well as the quote.

Ah ha... thanks so much.