What to do when he just won't take any more milk?

[a_astorga]

Hi,

10 month old Georgie just decided he just doesn't want any more milk. He just wants to be moving all the time and won't drink it. Tried the sippy cup and doesnt like it, I give it to him in a glass and just makes a big mess. So how am I supposed to add rice cereal to a 6 oz bottle. He can't just eat rice cereal and 6 oz is just too much of rice cereal. So I try to add it to the food and then he doesnt really like the food that much, if it had no milk he would like it more. So when do you stop feeding him formula and what do you feed him next? I know cow milk will be until 1 year old and I just give him water here and there no juice at all. I just don't know what to do and what to feed him to substitute his milk. Is it too early at 10 months to quit his formula intake?

So heres our thing :

Wake up 5:00 - 5:30 am 6:00 am on a really good day
(thats another tragic story, dont know what to do there either, always craps in the early am)

About 6:30 am milk 5-6 oz used to drink it with some problems but if I entertained him enough he would finish the bottle. All 3 bottles are the same.

7:30 solids 5-6 cubes

8:00 bath

8:30 nap 1.5 - 2 hours

11:00 - 11:30 milk same thing as above

12:00- 12:30 solids 5-6 cubes

2:00 - 2:30 nap 1 - 1.5 hours

4:00- 4:30 milk plus finger foods I stopped since it takes me up to an hour to give him his milk. But usually bread, raisins, fruit, etc.

5:00-5:30 solids 5-6 oz plus raisins or fruit for him to grab.

So he drinks some water here and there but not much.
And he eats every 4 hours. Is this too little time at this age? maybe every 5 hours? But he doesn't stay up so late so he'll be super super sleepy at the end.

Then bedtime at 6:30 -7:00

So instead of the milk what should I give him. He only takes 3 bottles and it's been so hard since like he's 7 months for him to drink it ok. Although some days he just drinks it like candy. And he doesn't take a bottle before bedtime since it's so close to his dinner time and never wants it. He does wake up to eat at 3:00 am 3 days out of the week and the rest of the days wakes up crying about 1 hour after bedtime , can't calm him down unless I give him his milk, and he drinks it fairly quickly on both ocassions so I guess he is hungry.

Also, he doesn't really seem to happy with the food cubes of veggies I have frozen for him. I guess the taste is too bland. So he's getting kinda of uncomfortable on his highchair. Could it be he is bore of his baby no salt food? He really prefers what we eat? When do you swith to just what Mom and Dad eat? Is this good for them? Like yesterday I ended up giving him chicken pot pie, with white cream and butter and the wine and pepper. Is this OK for them at 10 months? Is this a normal process that babies go thru to swith to real everyday food and not his frozen cubes?

So any of you gals going thru the same thing?

What am I doing wrong? Is this routine OK?

Thanks foe reading
Bye

[tylersmommy]

Hi there!

Just thought I'd check in and see if things have improved any for you...

[jennc123]

wow, your baby and my baby must know oneanother... :lol: bella does the exact same thing, i think she hates formula period, she knows when its in her cereal and she knows if i sneak it into her sippy as well, i am so repeating myself here, i have mentioned this so many times in different posts, sorry i can't help but I am in the same boat.

[a_astorga]

Hi,

It's been a while now and we still have to really keep him entertained while he's taking his bottle. I show him like a million different toys to keep him distracted. He just doesn't like to stay still.

He is eating better now. I tried different recipes and he seems to like his veggies more now.

Thanks

[jennc123]

thats good, my dd has resorted to pursing her lips and spitting it out!!!

[Mom2X&F&V]

Same thing here with my dd. She hates milk and I need to play her mobile to make her take it. I know as I worked at a daycare that at 10 months 4 solids are given during day. Here a Gastro told me that after 7 months milk is complimentary but not necessary if giving milk is an all day fight. That is here in my country. 16 oz after 6 months is pretty ok here. Have you started more protein finger foods? My lo is only interested in finger foods and not in cubes. So I give her Turkey ham in pieces and cheese and pasta soup and chicken in small bites and she prefers so rather than her veggies mix. Lentils soup with rice.  I have been dealing with her milk for a month now so I had to take off a bottle from her and Doc told me its ok. She is now on 3 per day. I do formula jell-o and she´ll take some and also mix her formula with her swiss cheese and yoghurt. I give her cheerios with milk as a soup, like we eat cereal. I make veggies cream with her milk as a soup with carrot or zuchini or spinach. I do not know if its ok but as long as she is growing healthy and happy I feel comfortable not fighting with her anymore and making her unhappy.
HTH.

[jennc123]

thats great advice, thank you!

[MyTwoBoys]

Wow! I came on this sight looking for this!

Just this past week, my son (George! 8months) has gone from eating 4, 4-6 oz bottles per day to :

6oz around 5:30-6:30
7:00 breakfast (about 4 - 6 cubes fruit and/or cereal and/or yogurt)

11:00  - 1-2 oz (!!!!!) bottle
            4-6 oz cubes of veggies/protein

3pm 1 -2 oz (!!!!!) bottle

6pm 4 -6 cubes veggie

7pm 6 oz bottle before bed

I was thinking about combining the 11am and 3pm bottle and have him drink it after his 1:00 nap to see if that works better.

If you read the book, How to get your kids to eat, but not too much, she talks about NEVER forcing your baby/child to eat (this includes using distractions). They know what they need and so I trust that George doesn't need as much as he did right now, but will probably hit a growth spurt and eat more soon.

ANother part of me wonders if he is teething and thus doesn't like his bottle!

Keep me updated (I'll do the same!)

Valerie

[jennc123]

After much stress and not knowing what to do and talking with her pediatrician i have finally decided to not even offer her bottle anymore, she wants nothing to do with it, but she will take her evening bottle, of course this dosen't make up for at least 16 ounces of beverage in her, so i am pushing the sippy cup, we are struggling but she will drink water or juice out of her sippy but not milk, so we are working on that.  I really try to get watery foods in her ie soup, applesause, pears...to make up for the formula she is not taking and she has other calcium sources as well.  Its so frutrating, you would think they would want to drink milk :wink:  :roll: