My 2 Year Old daughter is refusing to drink milk in the morning.?

Question

My 2 year old daughter was drinking milk in the morning before. from past 2 weeks she is refusing to drink milk. i tried changing cups, sippers , milk flavors. I also tried to prepare her milk by herself. but still she is not drinking milk.
Please suggest something.

Answer 1

Dont worry about it- as long as she gets milk during the day or dairy products that will equal the number of servings she should have. If she doesnt the dr may suggest using supplements.

My 2 yr old is the same way- he is very fussy lately and will only drink milk in the evenings- he eats lots of chees though!

good luck!

Answer 2

Little ones are very perceptive to their bodies needs. Dairy is not healthy for humans at all. The protiens in milk are large and very hard for the body to break down. Drinking milk makes the body work very hard for little or no nutritional worth. Do you know that humans are the only mammal on earth that drink another mammals milk? Also, the only mammal that drinks milk after it has been weened from it's mother's milk. Try soy milk. Check with your local health food store for healthier alternatives.

Answer 3

She may just have gotten tired of it. You know when you eat one item for so long and just go through a phase to where you don't want it.
She'll end up drinking it again, she just wants a change. If you're concerned about it, ask her pediatrician.
Pediasure is a great alternate.
My son hates milk, and i'm lactose intolerant so i sometimes forget to stress how important it is to drink it. But i give him pediasure because after he turned around 1 and a half or 2 he would not take one sip of milk and still won't and he's almost 5.
Not saying yours will do that....that was mostly my fault for not stressing it to him.

Answer 4

Kids go through fazes. I know for a long time my younger son refused to eat anything but meat. I would buy a vitamin supplement. WIll your child eat ice cream or pudding? If she will, just give juice in the morning and give her pudding or low fat ice cream for snacks. There are plenty of other ways to get calcuim into your child, just be creative. Most 2 year olds love grilled cheese. Just keep offering her milk every couple of days and I am sure that in time she will be back to a milk loving child.

Answer 5

Childen go through stages as they grow and this includes their eating habits. --Offer her juice instead. Offer her milk at another time.
My family of children have all gone through this with one important food or another .
She may not want milk for a little while- keep offering it to her and telling her its yummy but don,t be upset with her because shes growing up and changing her wants and likes and dislikes.
I know a little girl that did the same thing but milk was given to her on her cereal and offered to her anyway and she would eat the cereal and that milk but she did,nt want a cup of milk but today she drink milk - about 16 oz a day.
Shes three ,almost 4.

Answer 6

Don't force it...just make sure she gets what she needs in different ways....all kids go through stages.

Try giving her milk and cereal in the morning, or you can put milk instead of water into her oatmeal....you cann add it to things you make her for lunch or dinner.....

Yogurt or a smoothie is something they love as this age, and a great way to get some dairy in her diet.

Don't forget, a toddler's diet is a fraction of what adults need and the serving sizes are much smaller too....Chances are she is already getting what she needs :)

Answer 7

My daughter is a non-milk-drinker. Around the age of 2 she took a liking to breakfast cereal, though. (Fruit Cheerios are her new fave) She also likes flavored yogurt. My pediatrician says as long as she eats other calcium rich foods(cheese, etc) drinking milk is not that important. Lots of foods, like bread, are also fortified with calcium and vitamins. So let her have juice with breakfast. As long as she eats other calcium rich foods she is fine.
Also, sweetening the milk is a slippery-slope. You don't want her to crave sweet things in the morning.

Answer 8

All three of my kids went through this. You can't really force them but you want them to have the nutrition, so I chose to push other dairies. Cottage cheese, yogart, string cheese, cheese cubes, are among good choices. As a rule, everyone in my family is served a nice big tall glass of milk with dinner. If you are thirsty, that's what you drink. As they got older, they chose to drink the milk with breakfast too. Keep offering it at mealtime, but offer other chioces at other times during the day. She will eventually drink it again. Good luck!!

Answer 9

My three children went through this too, I just bought food colouring and called it fancy names, when they asked, like Flamingo Juice for pink, or Ice Bear Drink for blue. After a while we just went back to ordinary milk, no problem.
Try not to make too big an issue out of this. They like playing little games at that age, and are delighted when it works.

Answer 10

I agree, it is probably a stage she is going through, and not to force it. As long as she is eating yogurt, cheese and dairy she should be fine. Another thing that works sometimes is if you sit with her and you drink milk. Kids love to be like their parents and often imitate as you probably know. Also, maybe try letting her drink from a mug or big girl cup, if you havent tried that already!
Good LucK!
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