TTMA Milk & Food

[carolyngrace]

It's been a while since the thread about transitioning to milk. I'm curious how everyone is doing with that (and bottles/weaning also).

I'm also wondering if I should be worried about Oscars lack of milk intake. He eats a lot, drinks a lot of water, and is still nursing twice a day. But he doesn't drink milk. Some days a few ounces... And he has it in his cereal. But that's it. His poop is fine, he is energetic and healthy... Anyone else going without much milk? We quit bottles at the same time we transitioned so I think that's part of it.

[periwinkledaydreams]

Especially is he's still nursing, I wouldn't be concerned. I mean to ask about this at Js one year appt, which isn't until next week, but I actually have no idea how much milk she's drinking since I don't measure it ( we're all sippies now). She eats cheese and yogurt ( and everything else), and drinks water and watered down fruit juice too, so I'm not too worried. But I would like a number from her dr. just for a gauge.

[Deleted]

Same boat. She eats cereal, cheese, yogurt but not drinking too much milk. She is nursing still though at wake up, mid day, then twice in evening before bed.

[erbear]

We still nurse, so I don't push it. She eats a ton of cheese and yogurt, though!

[Bluedaisy]

Take this with a grain of salt but the baby book I was reading last night said toddlers don't actually need cows milk if they are getting other sources of dairy. The book is older though so that recommendation may have changed. At our nurse apt. she told us 16ounces max. but I forgot to ask about a minimum. LO does not like cows milk but I'm still trying to use up formula so I haven't worried about it.

[thecatsmeow]

Pretty similar here too. Nursing only morning and evening. He is very, very slowly drinking more milk. Probably at about 8-10oz a day now plus what I use to make his oatmeal. It takes him all day to drink that amount too.

[thecatsmeow]

Jul 16, 2016 14:26:27 GMT -5 Bluedaisy said:

Take this with a grain of salt but the baby book I was reading last night said toddlers don't actually need cows milk if they are getting other sources of dairy. The book is older though so that recommendation may have changed. At our nurse apt. she told us 16ounces max. but I forgot to ask about a minimum. LO does not like cows milk but I'm still trying to use up formula so I haven't worried about it.

We were told to aim for 20-24oz. I like your number better! I have been trying just to go with the flow and reminding myself that he is still nursing just a bit and likes dairy foods.

[Bluedaisy]

thecatsmeow, on LO's birthday the nurse asked us how much milk/formula has was getting and when I told her 18-24 ounces a day she said "Yeah, it's not bad, by 14 months you should weaning him to around 14 ounces a day so you're close, it shouldn't be hard to get there". Right now my main goal is to cut out his daytime bottles before he goes to daycare.

[shahoi]

Jul 16, 2016 14:34:21 GMT -5 Joolschweets said:

O prob doesn't get more than 12oz per day, but lots of water, food, dairy etc so it's not a worry for me.
He doesn't really have "feeds" anymore except 1 6oz bottle if WCM/formula mix at bed. I can't seem to get rid of that one, he sleeps terribly without it.

This is about where we are at. I offer milk sippies with each meal, but I'm sure she doesn't drink but maybe 2 oz of milk per milk. She eats a lot of yogurt and cheese, so I'm not too worried. We also still give her a 5 oz bottle of WCM before bed. She still loves her bedtime bottle. She probably only drinks about 10 oz/day, but a lot of water in between.

[heartofglass]

We're still nursing every 3-4 hours and I only started WCM a few weeks ago. He gets sippys with meals and I put it on the floor with him throughout the day. He maybe drinks 4 oz a day, maybe. I just switched him to lactose free milk due to some recent tummy issues and he seems to like it better. It's a little sweet, so I think it's a little closer to BM for him. He also seems to prefer it if it's been sitting out for a little bit as a opposed to ice cold from the fridge.

[thecatsmeow]

Ok, I am really happy to see a lot of similar responses. I try not to worry about numbers and just relax, but that isn't always easy. Part of my issue was going from nursing and really not knowing ounces at all to suddenly paying attention to it.

[Bluedaisy]

Kristykristyleelee is she teething? LO seems to hate food when he's cutting teeth.

[pghtruelove]

The past 2 weeks J has only been interested in nursing. She is barely eating or drinking anything else. I'm exhausted because she is nursing almost every hour, and at night she's basically attached to me all night long.

[erbear]

Jul 16, 2016 15:48:05 GMT -5 Bluedaisy said:

Kristykristyleelee is she teething? LO seems to hate food when he's cutting teeth.

Going to ask this. We had blueberries and mum mums for dinner the other night.

[jillywilly]

Jul 16, 2016 15:31:12 GMT -5 Kristykristyleelee said:

We're opposite of all of you. A has slowed down on the eating at meals. As in she takes a couple of bites then she is done. She still drinks milk from soppy & bottles, but I find myself frustrated with how little food she eats.

It could be a phase. I mean everything is a phase for them really. I'm trying to just wait it out.

I mean, my 27 pounder isn't hurting for calories

My kid seems to eat in waves - last week he ate everything in sight, this week he can hardly be bothered to take a few bites before demanding to get out of his chair. I keep telling myself it's highly unlikely he's actually going to starve himself to death, so we just keep plugging along.

[jillywilly]

We're on our last canister of formula, giving him a bottle only before bed and if he wakes MOTN. I told myself when we were done with this can we'd transition to a final snack/sippy before bed, but now that we're so close, I'm scared, he loves his bedtime bottle. Sooooo, maybe we'll buy one more can and wait it out a few weeks. Like others, he doesn't drink a ton of milk out of his sippy, so I like knowing he goes to bed with a nice amount of fluids and calories.

[periwinkledaydreams]

jillywilly we hung onto that bedtime bottle for a couple weeks even after we switched completely to WCM and sippy in the daytime. Then one night I just started putting the milk in a sippy at night and "feeding" her the sippy of milk the exact way we've done bedtime bottles (in the glider after books). I'm gradually pulling the time back, like where now we do sippy of milk THEN read. Eventually I'll pull it to where she has the milk before we get into the glider.

Yea I still have to rock her COMPLETELY to sleep, like do the arm drop test, before I can put her down into the crib. We'll work on that eventually lol.

[heartofglass]

Jul 16, 2016 19:51:31 GMT -5 periwinkledaydreams said:

jillywilly we hung onto that bedtime bottle for a couple weeks even after we switched completely to WCM and sippy in the daytime. Then one night I just started putting the milk in a sippy at night and "feeding" her the sippy of milk the exact way we've done bedtime bottles (in the glider after books). I'm gradually pulling the time back, like where now we do sippy of milk THEN read. Eventually I'll pull it to where she has the milk before we get into the glider.

Yea I still have to rock her COMPLETELY to sleep, like do the arm drop test, before I can put her down into the crib. We'll work on that eventually lol.

No shame. I rock A to sleep for every nap and bedtime.

[wegrowsheep]

T is fully weaned and pounding 20 oz of WCM daily.. And EATING. Granted the last 2 weeks have been mostly cheese, deli meat, and blueberries...

[holliberry28]

We've made the switch over from formula to WCM about a month ago- but he still gets two bottles of about 6-7 oz in the morning and at bedtime. Still too scared to switch to a sippy because he loves his bottles.

He does drink water from a straw cup throughout the day, and eats oatmeal, eggs, cheese, graham crackers, and veggie purée soups grandma makes him. He still purred purred to textures foods though.

Eta: and he loves Cheerios and berries. All the berries.

[turtle]

I'm trying to either get rid of formula or bottles and neither is working. If I put milk in a sippy cup, he probably drinks 3 oz max during the day. He will happily drink 6 oz of milk from a bottle. He will drink water from a sippy, but maybe only 12 oz total. We still give a 6 oz bottle at night.

Anyone know how many ozs of liquid toddlers are supposed to have? I am actually a little concerned about dehydration.

[mcp6286]

Hayley only drinks about 5 oz of milk per day which our doctor said is low but not concerning as long as she is getting lots of other liquids and eating dairy regularly. The kid eats like a monster so we push cheese, yogurt, etc and she eats plenty of that. She drinks EVERYTHING - about 16 oz of water each day + the milk and usually juice. turtle our doctor said as long as we get 4+ wet diapers per day, she's not dehydrated.

[sabrinaml]

Cs last formula tub ran out about a month ago (and even then it was 1oz formula and 6/7oz WCM). I was doing milk in his bottles until we ran out of rice cereal. (Didn't want to throw it out and he still wasn't doing great with milk in sippies). We ran out of rice cereal a week and a half ago. The 2 days before we ran out he did a great job of drinking milk from a sippy so I knew he was ready. I wasn't really sure how he would do without his night time bottle but he's had no issues. It was bitter sweet to pack up his bottles!
He drinks between 10-18oz depending on the day with lots of other dairy added in his diet. We also always have a cup of water out and around.
We have milk served with main meals. Prune juice with morning snack, and depending on how much milk he's had already depends on what he gets for afternoon & evening snack.
Eta: I usually give C 2 snacks in the afternoon (around 3 and 6/6:30 because we don't eat dinner until 7:30. (Which is an improvement in the 8pm dinner that we used to have before C started eating with us.) DH doesn't get home from work and out of the shower until close to 7/7:15.

[turtle]

Thanks mcp6286. He definitely has lots of wet diapers and eats lots of cheese and yogurt to cover the lack of milk.

[periwinkledaydreams]

Jul 17, 2016 14:04:20 GMT -5 budders said:

Jul 16, 2016 19:51:31 GMT -5 periwinkledaydreams said:

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Yea I still have to rock her COMPLETELY to sleep, like do the arm drop test, before I can put her down into the crib. We'll work on that eventually lol.

Same. Except it's hold and pace with V.

Mines more like create a gentle yet firm straight jacket out of my arms while she tries to claw and climb her way out lol. But yea, I just call it rocking haha