Weaning and milk

I really want to wean Cuinn - I've hated breastfeeding from the start and 14 months down the track, I'm getting really twitchy about it, but the Cuinn hasn't taken a bottle, or really even a sippy cup (I tried from 6 weeks (the time our antenatal class told us to start ... Plunket told us after the fact that we should have tried much earlier!) through to 11 months, I had hundreds of dollars worth of bottles and sippy cups, and tried everything I could think of to 'break' him), and now that he takes a cup, he won't drink any other form of milk. We've tried formula (admittedly just Nutricia), normal cows milk, putting stuff in the milk (eg milo) .... I don't want to cold turkey him off all milk because, my own feelings aside re breastfeeding, he needs it.

Does anyone have any suggestions of what we could maybe try? We may have tried it already, but suggestions would be really appreciated.

Thanks

i would - even tho i know you said you dont want to - just go without it. so long as he is getting calcium from other sources he doesnt really need it. or if you are really worried about milk put it in other things, like mashed potato, cramy bacon and egg pie, on his cereal, in his porridge.

oh and woohoo to 14 months!

Well done on 14mths!

I still struggle to get Oli to drink cows milk, so cant offer any miracle advise, but we have found that mixing formula with cows milk is working slowly. I mix half and half and am slowly adjusting the ratio's, maybe try mixing breast milk with cows milk and see if he will take it?

Okay s26 it the brand that make vanilla. flavoured formula.

To savewasting money having to try 10 different formulas to see if he likes them, if you go to all the different formula company websites you can request samples of their product and they often send you other free stuff too

S26
Karicare
Nurture
Nestle Nan

This is quite a good article on weaning. Good luck!

Bizzy wrote: i would - even tho i know you said you dont want to - just go without it. so long as he is getting calcium from other sources he doesnt really need it. or if you are really worried about milk put it in other things, like mashed potato, cramy bacon and egg pie, on his cereal, in his porridge. oh and woohoo to 14 months!

I very much second this. Truely if he has a varied diet with lots of veges etc, then don't worry too much about it. And please, please do NOT waste your money on follow on formulas, they are a crock of sh*t. Money saved on this bunch of you really don't want to know what goes in this sh*t etc is money more shoes!
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Jus grdually introduce it to his diet in breakfast etc. If he has taken a bottle before, just give it to him in that. Dont' get hung up on pluncket says no bottles, seriously, in the world of parenting, bottles are the least of your worries... dirty secret here, miss 3 only stopped having a bottle of (cows) milk on her 3rd birthday - only way she would have milk. She was also resistant to cows milk, but eventually realised that was all that was on offer, so...

Best luck, you have done so, so well. xxxx