dropping bottles/milk altogether

I would personally not wanna get rid of the milk drinks at his age. I don't intend on taking them away from Daniel for a while because they are growing so quick they need the calicum for their bones. We just give whatever milk is on special or the cheapest - but blue top.

just talked to my friend who goes to the same paed(we got discharged a while ago) and he said to drop milk feed at 20-21 months and her child doesn't even have dairy...so i think we will be ok.. cause my DH and I get very over him chucking his drink cup and convincing him to drink it:)

if the milk he is having is green top or anything other than the blue top then it probably isnt doing a lot for him anyway so i would say go for it!

nah he has blue top milk i just meant what kind of yogurt is best.. (ah just read yours cuppatea:) )

yeah i think we will stop stressing..if he wants it he does and if he doesn't we won't worry.. thanks all

I think it was around then when Tom stopped his "milk feeds". I started worrying about his teeth as we were brushing then having bed time bottle. I tried swapping the order and was met with a HUGE tanty so next night I dropped the bottle. no probs! I just made sure he got yoghurt and cheese etc through the day.

After a while he started wanting milk as a drink. (not a structured feed) just whenever. So I often give him a cup of milk with breakie. Then he graduated to "fluffies" and these have become the ultimate bribe

Jack went off his bottles/milk altogether (which I was stoked about as I don't like bottles past 12mo) at 13mo when he was admitted to hospital. They tried to give him a bottle or milk drink after or during each procedure so he quickly linked the two and refused all bottles altogether.

I did offer him milk in a cup but he wasn't fussed so I didn't persevere.

The paed at the hospital said as long as he's having 2-3 dairy feeds a day it's fine. So milk on weetbix, yoghurt and a bit of cheese is all he gets. Hasn't stunted his growth at all. And I agree that we don't actually NEED dairy, its just a convenient way of getting calcium. In a balanced diet you get your calcium from other foods anyway.

Emily was only down to one bottle of blue top milk in the evening since 14 months. Then it would be brush teeth, book, cuddles and bed. About a month ago she started doing the whole chucking the bottle round too, so a couple of weeks ago we started just giving her her evening milk a bit earlier and in her sippy cup, and reduced it to 150mls. Occassionally that still gets thrown around but she has been getting better and learning that if it gets thrown it makes a mess on the floor and she goes without the rest of it. She gets plenty of other calcium sources throughout the day - breakfast is followed by a berry-banana smoothie made up with yoghurt (full fat) and milk which she just LOVES and drinks almost 200ml of that. Cheese with lunch and/or for a snack. After lunch she has a cold milo, about 150mls. She also drinks lots of water throughout the day. Don't forget lots of non-dairy foods have calcium too i.e. broccolli is an unlikely but excellent source so if he eats plenty of broccolli he'll be getting calcium that way too. I think some fruits a good calcium sources too. Maybe try a google search of non-dairy calcium rich foods to see what you come up with.

thanks all....trud- i did not know that about brocolli!!!

so he has it in the morning and no throwing and sleeping fine so it;s good to know I'm not the only one..have had a lot of attitude about not giving him bottles/milk anymore so i wondered ..