Milk transition

did you blend bottles or just give it straight up? How long did the "transition" take, or did you just switch to milk immediately?

suggestions?

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I blended the bottles - the ped told me do it for 1-2 weeks, but I did it longer than that - I wasn't ready to take her off formula completely - cause she wasn't eating alot of table food at the time (she was in a boycotting stage )

Anyway - I was making the bottles half formula, half milk.

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We blended them, as my daughter had a slight problem digesting milk. We replaced 1oz of formula with milk each week, so it took almost 2 months. If we did more than that she got diarreah.

Most people I know did half and half for a few days and then all milk.

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We went cold turkey and had no problems.

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Blended for 2 weeks. I tried cold turkey and she gagged.

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Posted by Marcie

... she wasn't eating alot of table food at the time (she was in a boycotting stage )

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thanks!

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I wanted to say, if your child already has milk products in their diet, ie yogurt or cheese and has no problems, you might want to try going cold turkey.

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We tried going cold turkey and she would take 2 sips and refuse it.

So we did 50/50 with formula/milk or 50/50 with water/milk, been doing that for about a week. She will take it sometimes 75/25, but honestly, I am trying to use up all my formula in the house :)

My next challenge is to get her to give up the bottle and drink milk from her sippy, she will only drink water out of it right now.

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I did 1 oz at a time but we suspected Kevin was lactose intolerant (and were right) so it was in our best interest to go this route. By 3 oz - we were sure of our issue!! So I had to start over with the slow transition 1 oz at a time with soy milk and I think within 2 weeks were good to go.

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We went cold turkey at 10 1/2 months

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I blended the bottles w/milk and formula for 3-4 days - then she was transitioned to whole milk without a problem.

She did experience constipation when she was on whole milk - so we changed her diet a bit (added more veggies - mostly steamed, wheat etc....) and add about an ounce or two of water to her bottle now each feedings. Its helped.

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Went cold turkey with #1, but #2 had milk protein issues so we went more slowly, substituting 2 oz of milk for formula each day for three days.

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we just started making the transition...we are replacing an ounce of formula with milk every 3 or 4 days..I am going slow because she doesnt eat any table foods yet. Her bday is in 3 weeks..she will be completly on milk at that point.

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I tried blending and she would never finish the bottle. If I gave her straight formula or milk, she drank it all. So after a few blended bottles, we just went to milk cold turkey and had no problems.