when did you stop feeding your child fromula??

Question

my daughter will be one in a month and I was thinking it might be time to switch her to **** milk now, my doctor told me when she was a year old. So I was just curious to know how old your children were when you switched them. thanks

sorry homoginized mild or 2%

Answer 1

I know that dr's recommend that by the time they are 1 they should be off formula and drinking real milk.
Right before my daughter turned 1 my dr told me to do half formula and half milk in the bottle or sippy bup or what ever you use. They said to do this for about a week.
Then the next week do 3/4 of real milk and 1/4 formula do that for a week.
Then the 3rd week do all milk that way your baby has time to get used to the real thing. Instead of doing it all at once and creating problems. They say to use whole milk though not 2% or 1%.

Answer 2

My daughter will be one in early March. We have been giving her formula and whole milk for a few weeks now. We started out giving her 1/4 milk and now are doing 1/2 milk. She is tolerating it well. All you can do is try it out, mix a little bit of whole milk with her formula and see if she does well with it. If she does well keep adding more. Her pediatrician said any time after 10 months is a good time to start adding milk because by the time she is a year they would like her to be on whole milk alone. Good luck with this!!

Answer 3

It depends how much your child is eating as far as table food and/or baby food. My son was taken off of formula at 8 months (per his doctor) because he was eating so much table food. He never was even on baby food he just went righ to table food. He also had 6 teeth by the time he was 6 months old so it made it very easy for him to eat table food. Our doctor said that he was getting all the nutrients and vitamins he needed since was eating so well and did not need to be on the formula so we took him off and put him regualr whole milk. He is now 13 months and as healthy as ever. People get way too dramatic over this feeding stuff. Not all babies are the same so you just need to take cues from your child and do what is best for him or her not what everyone else tells you to do.

Answer 4

Our doctor told us the same- at one year we could switch our daughter to whole milk... She is 13 months now and I am just switching her to milk and she seems fine. I was a bit worried as she was a preemie. But at our last visit the dctr assured me that since she is eating solid food and doing well that it was fine. One thing they did recommend though was putting her on a daily viiamin like prosobee( spelling?) or Gerber. which we are doing since you can't really tell excatly how much nutrician she is getting.

As long as your child was previously on a milk based formula - you should be able to switch ok. We gradually switched within a week- by alternating bottles of each and by filling a bottle half with formula and half with milk - but she didn't even seem to notice honestly!

Just watch for signs of changes or allergies and you should be ok- good luck!

Answer 5

My 18 month old still drinks formula simply because she is not keen on cows milk, but the normal time to make the switch is about a year.

Answer 6

About a week to ten days before her birthday you can wean her to whole milk. (Babies need the fat in the whole milk for proper development - they go onto 2% when they're over 2 years old.)

To make the transition smoother - start mixing 3 parts formula to one part milk. When she gets used to it, up the amount of milk while decreasing the formula.

Answer 7

A year old but if i could go back i wish i would have started mixing half formula and half whole milk in his bottle because i switched him at once and it caused him to be constipated so i would start tapering off on the formula slowly. Start doing it now.

Answer 8

I started supplementing my daughter some regular whole milk a couple of weeks before she turned one. When I knew she wasn't allergic, I stopped completely about a week after her first birthday

Answer 9

Well many doctors say 18-24 months before switching to milk and the World Health Organization says you should breastfeed until AT LEAST two years.

So really don't be in a rush, formula is better than milk (which can cause intestinal irritation which leads to anemia) and has more nutrients.

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 10

You can start her on regular milk anytime after her 1st birthday. IF she doesn't like it try alternating and if she is a picky eater they do have toddler formula just to ensure she is getting everthing she needs. Good luck