Got milk?
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- March
- 5
Now that the one-year mark is approaching, we are getting ready to make the switch from formula to milk. I nursed my daughter until she was six months and then started giving her Similac. She never had a problem with making the switch there. She LOVES her formula. Whenever she sees the bottle, she starts hooting and yelling. I can’t get it in her mouth fast enough. I called the doctor the other day to get a head start on how the change is supposed to happen. A nurse said to start weaning her onto whole milk, i.e., giving her 1/4 milk and the rest formula, until gradually her stomach can handle an 8 oz. bottle of milk on its own. My mother, her grandmother, who often thinks she knows more than the doctor, seems to think we should just give her a bottle of milk and be done with it. Curious to know how others made the great milk swap?
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on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 at 3:35 pm by Marcela Rojas.
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I would suggest weaning from the bottle and the formula at the same time. I would not put the milk in the bottle, I would put it in a straw cup. At the same time I would start watering down the formula until it does not taste as good as the whole milk.
Eliminate one bottle at a time. And instead offer the cup. For some babies this is easy and the bottles can be eliminated quickly and for some the process is slow. Each day after 12 months it becomes harder and harder.
I did this with my daughter starting at eleven months. For her it was an easy transition.