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I find that LO's intake varies a lot from day to day. He gets a sippy of milk for all meals, and some days he'll polish them off, other days he may only drink half a cup with each meal. In general, the more he eats, the less he drinks, and vice versa. He also tends to drink more milk when he doesn't feel well. All that to say that I don't worry -- I can't force him to drink more and I'm sure he's getting what he needs from food, too.

5-10 oz. Now that we're doing open cups she actually drinks milk whilst home!

I can't get her to drink milk. She nurses two times a day but soon to be done with that. I've got to ask her pediatrician about this.

I don't even know. We offer it at breakfast, lunch, and dinner and he drinks what he drinks. I'm not really too concerned about it.

15 months, drinks around 15 oz of whole milk a day. She also usually has 1 yobaby as a snack and sometimes a string cheese stick.

He's 3 and doesn't drink that much milk. He just has some throughout the day. Like he'll eat cereal with milk, have 1 or 2 cups of yogurt, maybe some string cheese. He gets his calcium from other sources so I'm not concerned.

My LO is 21 months and she drinks anywhere from 10-16 oz a day...it varies a lot like pp said. I agree that milk isn't that important as long as they have a well balanced diet...way better to get nutrition from food instead of drinking his/her calories. Also, I heard food helps with absorption of nutrients so offering milk with food is best

my 12 month old drinks 12 oz a day. but only because i heat it up and give it to him in a bottle. otherwise, it would be zero. he refuses to drink it from a sippy...

@sandy: This is really interesting, I had never heard that!

Probably around 15 oz a day- some days a little more or less. I don't really limit how much at meals, he's on the smaller side, so more isn't ever a bad thing. I let him have unlimited water throughout the day.

LO drinks about 8-10 oz. of whole milk a day and nurses at night and first thing in the morning. On the weekends I let her nurse when she asks for it so she usually has less whole milk then.