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DS never took to WCM that wasn't in a bottle. I knew he liked the taste since he drank it in a bottle, but when we cut his bottles, he wanted nothing to do with WCM in a cup.

He does love cheese and yogurt too. I have to limit his cheese due to constipation, but he gets cheese every day at lunch, and he'll have 2 yogurt pouches/day. I'm not too worried about his calcium intake!

My LO does drink milk, but not a ton. However we do yogurt almost everyday for breakfast and she has cheese nearly every day, so I really don't worry about it at all. Some days she will drink a lot (for her, like maybe 8 oz) and some days just a few sips.

At her 2 year appt the ped said the milk really isn't important right now as long as she is eating well and a variety of things.

I freeze those yogurt tubes (like GoGurt brand ones but I get the more natural versions) and my daughter thinks they're Popsicles. She will always take one if I offer it!

@Mae: just jumping in to suggest chobani Greek yogurt pouches. They make baby ones and kid ones. Not as much sugar as other kid yogurts and more protein. Our little guy loves them. Because some days I just can't handle the mess of him feeding himself yogurt with a spoon!

I was told he probably gets plenty of the other stuff from food but he will still need vitamin D. Therefore he is supposed to get 1/2 hour of outdoor time without sunscreen each day.

For a long while after giving up formula, LO refused milk (until she was positively peer-pressured into becoming a milk addict at school!) and our pediatrician said he wasn’t concerned because LO eats dairy every day.

Have you tried yogurt "smoothies"? We just throw yogurt and a bit of milk into the blender to thin up the yogurt so i's drinkable and LO thinks they are great.

LO also loves cheese, and cheese sticks are an easy snack. They also have cheese sticks that are fortified with extra calcium.

Xander drinks hemp milk, but when we switched from breastmilk to hemp, he didn't drink a lot, so we started giving him almond yogurt every day (he gets it at daycare) to help compensate.

My LO doesn't really like milk, which the ped says is fine, just to give her a few servings of yogurt and cheese each day. I give her Greek yogurt with puréed fruit each morning and she eats 2-3 serving of cheese each day.

@Mae: they have reusable pouches that you can put regular yogurt in, if your LO eats pouches without too much mess. Yogurt was definitely a messy meal for a long time.

We do a calcium/vitamin D gummy supplement and made sure DS got a spoonful of coconut oil on toast or stirred into oatmeal for breakfast to meet fat needs. Then no dairy needed!

She eats yogurt and cheese nearly daily. But if my second also doesn't like milk then I doubt I'll even make a huge effort for daily dairy. It's fine but it's not necessary and as long as they're on a multi vitamin it's really not a huge issue.

Soooo O does not like milk (still). She does nurse 1x a day, but I am almost certain it is mostly comfort nursing. I do continue to offer it to her for every meal and she maybe drinks 1 oz a day? Anyways, I don't really make a huge concentrated effort to make sure she's eating other sources of dairy. I do offer her yogurt, cheese, etc. Sometimes she eats it, sometimes she doesn't. I just make sure she gets a wide variety of foods and hope that is good enough. I can't force her to eat or drink, but I will continue to offer. I was thinking of perhaps offering almond milk, it is a bit sweeter and that way she could get some calcium, but was attempting to stick with whole milk for my little peanut to gain some extra lbs. If she continues to not like milk, I will try other types of milk and see if it helps!

Will she do smoothies? I make Popsicles with plain yogurt and chunks of fruit - bananas, strawberries and blueberries are a hit. They aren't less messy than yogurt but they're fun!