When do you start giving baby with reflux whole milk?

Question

My son is eleven months old and currently drinking enfamil AR. Thanks, AMANDA

Answer 1

If your baby has severe reflux I would not try it without asking the gi specialist. and when you do start with skim milk...

Answer 2

Milk can be very difficult for kids digestive systems...hence why there are so many dairy allergies. Since a child with reflux has an even more sensitve system, I would recommend rice milk or almond milk which can be found at Whole Food Markets or in whole food section at the grocery store.

As a seperate note, my daugther had reflux and I had her adjusted at a chiropractor and it worked wonders. She would literally stop having symptoms after an adjusment and I know other several people that had success with chiropractic. She no longer has issues. I still have her adjusted.

Just thought I would share that with you in case it would help your son too. Good luck!

Answer 3

U should start about 1 or 1 and a half because in your case the milk will probably set better on his stomach at that age. By him having reflux his stomach is very sensitive at the age he is now so the more time the better.

Answer 4

The doctor that i took my son to told me other wise. Alos, my mother is a dietician. Most doctors recommend to wait until their child is 1 year to start on cows milk, only if there is an allergic reaction to milk in the family. If not, it is okay to slowly introduce cows milk to your child. It is true that cows milk doesnt have the same amount of nutrients that formula does, but if your child still recieves formula, it is okay to add some cows milk with the meal. For our son, our doctor recommened that we introduce cows milk when he was 8 months. We did this by making his bottle 1/4 cows milk, and 3/4 formula. So he still got his formula, but with a little cows milk too. Keep adding a little more cows milk until they reach the age of 1. Then it is okay to switch complelty. If you wait until your child is 1 year to all of a sudden take away the formula and give cows milk, it is alot harder on the childs system, and they may refuse it. But if you slowly introduce it, then your child will become accustome to it. Our son did just fine with cows milk mixed with formula. In fact, he went from the 30% in weight, up to 75% in weight.

Answer 5

One more month isnt going to make a difference. The Drs usually say 1yr and its ok to start on whole milk. My son had reflux and I switched him to milk at 11 months.

Answer 6

Mine is 9 mos, on Enfamil AR, and doing well. Our peditrician allows us to begin milk at 9 months (just little amounts mixed with water at first. during meals, etc) but she does not want her off the AR til one year. She has a gradual plan that goes week by week that increases milk while decreasing formula. I will start that at 10 and 1/2 months and be off formula at age 1. But mine is on Prevacid so that may be a factor too. good luck!

Answer 7

Try beginning to wean him about a week or less before he turns a year old. Do three parts formula to one part whole milk until he gets used to it. Don't rush him. do it gradually. Increase the milk and decrease the formula as he gets used to it.

Answer 8

There is no reason to ever introduce milk into a babies diet. Milk is a poor substitute for formula which is a poor substitute for breastmilk. Until you baby is ready to be completely weaned (between 2 and 4 years) they can continue on breastmilk or formula. If your baby "needs" 1-2 serving of milk a day then they aren't weaned.

I love milk, and I would have a hard time giving it up, but it isn't necessary nor necessarily healthy.

http://www.askdrsears.com/html/0/T000100.asp#T031014

SWITCHING TO MILK
I've been feeding my baby iron-fortified formula. When is it okay to switch to whole cow's milk? Research comparing cow's milk and formula-fed infants during the first year of life has shown that cow's milk is irritating to the intestines of a tiny infant, causing infants to lose a tiny bit of blood in their stools, contributing to iron deficiency anemia. There is very little iron in cow's milk anyway, and the iron that is there is poorly absorbed. Concern about iron-deficiency anemia has led the American Academy of Pediatrics, backed by solid research, to discourage the use of cow's milk in children under one year of age. One of America's top pediatric hematologists (blood specialist), the late Dr. Frank Oski , Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkin University (and co-author of a book entitled: Don't Drink Your Milk) advised parents to be cautious and not rush into the use of cow's milk, even during the second year of life. At present it would seem prudent to continue giving your baby iron-fortified formula during the second year of life and very gradually wean him to dairy products, beginning with yogurt. If your toddler generally has a balanced diet and routine hemoglobin tests show that he is not even close to being anemic, then switch from formula to whole milk sometime during the second year, but don't be in a hurry.

Answer 9

when you do decide to change to whole milk, watch your child's bowel movements, because using whole milk can be hard on the little fellers. My granddaughter would scream having a bowel movement until we switched to 2% milk. I have told other friends about this, and it has helped them.

Answer 10

1 year. Or until they have enough teeth to get the nutrients they need from table food. Cows milk doesn't have enough nutrients to be a replacement for formula.