Is My One Year Old Getting Enough Milk?
Posted by Zolly | Under Nutrition Monday Aug 31, 2009I am worried that once we try to wean to wean our daughter off of her one 8oz bottle of 3% milk at bedtime that she won’t get enough milk during the day. We try to give her milk in a sippy cup during the day, but she refuses it. She will drink water from the same kind of sippy cup and drinks a lot of it too. So, I’m just wondering how I make sure she gets enough milk for her nutrition while NOT giving her the bottle anymore. The DR wants her off of it and we are expecting another baby in April so we want her off of the bottle soon so she won’t revert back once the new baby arrives. Maybe I need to supplement the milk during the day with puddings, or yogurt?? Any thoughts or advice is really appreciated 
My son was the same way! He only wanted water. I just kept trying. I did however started giving him juice in the sippy cup. I wonder if that makes a difference. Then I tried milk. I just kept trying at times when I know he would be thirsty like after he got done eating something that was really dry. I would just keep giving him plenty of yogurt and cheese, like you are doing, until she gets the hang of drinking the milk. Good luck.
My question to you is..why r u weaning her now? Babies of that age can have 3 servings of dairy in a day (1 serving = 8fl.oz of milk, 1cup of yougurt and such). U can definetly give her yogurt during the day and cheese (such as cottage cheese and fruit) and save the milk for bedtime. I don’t see y u need to wean her..unless u mean wean her from bottle use…keep trying to give the milk in the sippy cup…she might take a month or so to get a hang of it….eventually she will. So keep trying..she knows how to drink from a cup so she just needs to do it at night. Put away the bottles (don’t throw it or show it to her) and let her know that you threw them out and maybe that will help (this worked well for my niece…)
The human being left alone will find what is best for it…this specially holds true for babies.
Don’t equate her volume of food with yours…she has a food processing system many times smaller and as a consequence can process less.
When her body calls for food, you will know about it…
Your daughter can get the benefits of milk through yogurt, cheese, making her oatmeal or cream of wheat with milk, etc. My kids loved cottage cheese and yogurt at that age. As long as she’s willing to drink something from a cup, she’ll be fine.
I just weaned my son off his bottle, and at first he was reluctant to drink milk in a cup, but in the morning I had a special helicopter cup of milk ready for him and a cereal bar, and he said no and started to cry, and he asked for juice or his bottle, I told him that he had to have milk in the morning, he fussed for a bit and when he calmed down I offered it to him and he eventually drank it because he was thirsty. I gave him the same cup of milk before bed and juice and water during the day. She will adjust and eventually drink milk, you just have to keep offering it to her at certain times of the day, and make it special and part of a routine. My son gets his cup of milk and an oreo cookie after his bath, but he is 2, and now he loves it. Good Luck!
My oldest daughter was the same way. Once we stopped the bottle she would never drink milk for a cup. Have you ever tried putting flavor in the milk like strawberry or chocolate? My youngest daughter we thought was going to be like my oldest was not wanting milk in a cup (turned 1 8/31/07) but a put strawberry flavor in it and she started drinking it. Now she is drinking milk from a cup with no flavor. So for her it worked. My oldest hasn’t drank milk since she was 11months old. We make sure she eats a lot of dairy products and she is doing fine.
Definitely give yogurt a go, my son also likes to eat grated cheese off the tray on his high chair.