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Just about out of ideas on how to get little snowboarder to drink any milk - and after seeing an ad for toddler formula with straws and watching him down some apple juice from a carton (never had before!) I wondered whether you can get little cartons of fresh cows milk with straws? Looked in sainsbury but couldn't see them?
snowboarder

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Cool thanks - had not occurred to me to look in UHT bit of supermarket. Does it taste disgusting?


Could try the milkman - although I do not want someone clattering around outside at the critical 5-6am wake up time!!


Bought a carton of rice milk from Health Matters to try. I think you could say Not A Success. Although I tasted it and it was vile.


Started wondering why I actually want him to drink milk - do they actually need to? Man in healthmatters told me no, rubbish, they don't....so why do I think they do?!?

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The UHT one tastes fine. I had a craving for milk when pg with the twins and drank a lot of it myself. I think while the vegan lobby will say that dairy isn't essential for humans (and I say that as a veggy myself!) and there is a lot of hype around milk, toddler milk etc etc... a reasonable amount of dairy produce for the average child fits quite well within a balanced diet though there are other sources of protein and calcium... hummous for eg.... cheese and yoghurt are good and milk in itself isn't an essential.
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Thing is I LOVE drinking milk!! I have a probably totally flawed theory that b/f babies will never really be into drinking cows milk - this is based on the extensive research I have done - ie - I was bottle fed and LOVE milk - sister was breastfed and can't stand it. You see - very scientific.....


Anyway - interested in the milk man - poppy - do you know what time he comes?


Cheers all. He didn't like hot chocolate either. Weird, What's wrong with the child? Has milk on shreddies though and sucks the milk out of them, and eats yoghurt (on occasion), loves cheese and creamy sauces and eggs.

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Snowboarder, don't worry - O was breastfed, but weaned at 16 months and really hated milk with a vengence until she was about 4. I just gave her loads of cheese, lasagne with home made white sauce full of milk, yoghurts etc. etc. Now at 6 she is a total milk fiend - has porridge every morning, and nicks C's milk whenever she can get away with it (swaps her for her juice!!).


C on the other hand is a milk fiend through and through, whether it's from the breast or bottle, cold, warm, cooked or whatever. She just loves it...now a month off 2 and don't see it changing.


What I'm trying to say is that I'd stop worrying so much about it. First time around I worried so much about food in general, how much, how often etc. with No.2 I've been much more relaxed, and not afraid to take a full plate of food away and then offer nothing until next meal time, and she's a far better eater. Could just be coincidence, but I really think they pick up on our stress, and sometimes just love to pull our strings.

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Hi snowboarder, our milkman comes at about 4.30-5am I think. I hadn't thought of the risk of waking a little one until you mentioned it but my son's room is at the front of the house and he doesn't seem to be disturbed by it. When I've heard him he's not been very noisy - our milk comes in plastic bottles so no glass rattling going on.


On a separate note, I remembered today that a dietician friend once told me that she'd been getting children making Angel Delight to encourage them to drink more milk. Don't know how you'd feel about the sugar issue but if you can bear the mess, making it with your little boy might be one way of getting some milk into him...?

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