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    Posted: 19 October 2009 at 1:14pm
I have just gone down to one breastfeed a day and have been trying for several weeks to get Lucy to drink milk. She never drank formula, although I tried several times over the months. She now will sip some milk but wont take a decent amount. She sculls back water from various cups but wont take the milk.

She does eat custard or yogurt every day and has milk on her breakfast and in other food but I am still concerned that she needs more that that. I am planning on weaning completely soon but want to have her drinking more milk before I do.

Tips are most welcome!!
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Jake did exactly the same thing refusing milk from about 11 months??! He was on formula but just decided to go on a bottle strike one day and that was that. He'd drink weak milos and now he won't even drink them.
He's lactose-intolerant so there isn't a huge amount of chioce out there dairy-wise that fits our budget but if you're worried about calcium intake (the only reason parents generally worry about adequate dairy in their kids diets) there are heaps of other calcium-rich foods out there to feed her. Broccoli for starters, baked beans, fish and nuts though you'd probably be avoiding them for now, cabbage, oranges, rolled oats, spinach, peas, dried figs, fresh carrot & vege juice, nori seaweed, etc. I'd juice up oranges, carrots, spinach and apples for Jake and he'd scull that back getting lots of essential nutrients!
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Maybe check with Plunket regarding the recommended intake of dairy but I would think that she is likely getting enough from the yoghurt, custard, milk on cereal etc. Jack wasn't a big milk drinker to start with after I stopped BF but he had enough calcium in other foods. And as long as she is drinking water and not getting dehydrated she will probably be alright
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I'm pretty sure its somewhere between 300-500ml per day, or about 3 servings.

Jack went on a bottle strike at 13mo and never had milk again. I try and offer him some now, an weak milos, but he has about 50ml and that's it.

So he has milk on his weetbix, has yoghurt and cheese everyday and that's enough for him.
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You could try milo or complan and gradually reduce the amount til its just milk.
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Rhiannon stopped drinking milk at 12mths (she self weaned herself), i ended up making sure that she got plenty of yoghurt, cheese and smoothies and the occasional milkshake.

she still doesnt like milk but eats plenty of dairy so compensates that way


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Apparently once I went off the bottle that was it for me and milk.
I still won't drink the stuff straight (and oddly, dad doesn't like it either). Even my cereal barely gets wet I use so little milk.
I think if you're getting calcium in in other ways, either other dairy foods (watching the sugar content - which is what trips me up) or in non-dairy foods it's fine. Some people just don't like milk.
              
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