1yo refusing milk

[bobby's bear]

My 1 yo has always been a fairly functional breast feeder and for the past few months has been down to two feeds a day (her decision not mine)

Since the hot weather she has been refusing her morning feed and recently has started also refusing her bedtime feed most evenings.

I have tried repeatedly giving her whole cow?s milk in a cup over the past month, warmed and cold but she spits it out and pulls a face. She gets a reasonable amount of cheese / yogurt in her diet.

This is new ground for me as her 3yo sister was a breast milk guzzler until she was 1 and then happily took tons of cow?s milk in a cup (and still does!)

I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to how I can encourage her to take milk, or even if it matters that much at this stage! I am reluctant to go down the formula route especially as she is refusing breast milk anyway.

[lenster]

Hi. My little one stopped breast feeding at 9 months due to a throat and ear infection. She would never drink formula or cows milk or breast milk from a cup. Doc said by that stage she didn't need as much milk as you think and as long as diet is good with other sources of calcium then not to worry. Her diet wasn't brilliant though so I used to just try to use milk in as many of her meals as possible and made sure breakfast was always a milky porridge or weetabix.

Amazingly she then went ahead and drank milk when it was given out at a playgroup we went to in those little kiddy cartons with straws. Maybe it was the carton or maybe it was watching other kids drink it, not sure, but she still won't drink it from a cup.