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LO rejected whole milk the first few times, so I did a gradual change from bm/formula to whole milk . . . I just gradually replaced ounces until she was on whole milk. It went pretty smoothly.

I still *nurse* to sleep for naps/bed (I don't count that toward her milk for the day as it's not really a nursing session, just really a boob session).

Sometimes when she doesn't eat a good dinner, I will offer her a bottle before bath too, although that doesn't happen very often.

@hilsy85: hopefully both! His sessions are usually 10am 2pm..he doesn't take much either during the daytime so I hope he really likes wcm! Ifbhe doesn't seem to be taking much I'm going to offer it w meals in the future too (once we're through our stash)

We started WCM a few weeks ago and started by mixing it with BM in a bottle. Then gradually put more and more whole milk in. She now has 2 bottles/sippy's of whole milk and 2 bottles of breastmilk a day.

I give her the milk in a bottle and still rock her in the glider, and do our whole nap routine the way it has been. she gets sleepy on the bottle and it relaxes her, and then I just put her in the crib when she is done eating.

Yes, to number 3! ever since she went on a nursing strike and has been getting bottles/whole milk- her sleep has been awesome. not sure if it is just a coincidence or not, but i'll take it! she used to be up around 6/630 and now she sleeps in until 730ish.

Do you use a bottle at all now, or is your child nursing?

@MsLipGloss: did you mix the milk with liquid formula? DD is on Similac Sensitive liquid for one bottle a day. It says on the label not to mix with water so I wasn't sure about milk...

We have had a very easy transition to Whole milk... We did half and half to start - we were on formula -- at night we are still doing half formula and half milk just until the formula runs out!

We have just noticed a change in poops! More of them! Also - he is def hungrier for food.

But he loves the milk! We are still doing bottles for now as he will not drink out of the 5 different sip/straw cups we have gotten.

So we didn't completely swap one bottle to all WCM. We did a slow transition; half due to her MSPI so I wanted to take it easy. And the other half I thought it would make the transition easier. We mainly started like 1/4 WCM and 3/4 BM in a bottle. Then slowly to a full bottle.

Daycare gave bottles at the same time as they did before.

Transitioning to WCM had no effect on her sleep!

We still nurse at wake up and bed time unless DH puts her down.

ETA: After we fully transitioned to WCM we started bottle weaning. Again one bottle at a time. When she was all straw we worked on open cups. By about 16 months she was 75% open cups.

@mrsjyw: yes the wcm is cold when we mix it with her pumped milk, but the pumped milk has usually been in the fridge for a day so it's cold too. But now we don't even mix anymore and she does fine with 100% whole milk. She has never prefered to have her pumped milk warm tho, she has drank it cold and warm without a preference, , but we still warm it a little so it's not super cold. .

@hilsy85: no, LO has been on one nap for ages and when she was on 2 bottles it was around 9 and 2? I think they give her milk at snack times at school.

When I'm home I give her milk at meal times. And occasionally throughout the day. It doesn't / hasn't affected her meal intake.

Some people purposely introduce cows milk it in a sippy or straw cup so that there is a separate association.

I wouldn't mix it with BM unless you were pumping or had a freezer stash you wanted to work through, so I am guessing you need to do whole "servings" of cows milk (sorry if i am making no sense).

@hilsy85: I only mixed it because LO rejected WCM at first, and because I work full time, I couldn't be home to keep offering it to her (LO was at home with my MIL until she recently transitioned to daycare, and, to make a long story short, I just couldn't depend on my MIL to work with her to get her to take the WCM, let alone WCM in a sippy, which would have been my preference).

@sorrycharlie: @hilsy85: I just wanted to say I am sorry you are struggling. Solids are a big struggle for us, and my Ped told me that sometimes it takes offering a new food (or drink) 15 times before your LO will accept it. I don't know about you, but I didn't offer my LO anything new more than a few times before moving on to something else. I do it now though, and am starting to have more successes. (((hugs))) mamas!

@locavore_mama: i like that slow transition. do you give less milk because you're still nursing morning and night? i hope to move to that after a year until she wants to stop.

@sorrycharlie: you wohm right? So how did she use to get bm or formula? Just use the same vessel and start mixing it a little bit of cows milk at a time. Or did you try that already? That and MSPI is why I mixed vs cold turkey.

Some tips: LO vastly preferred milk in a open cup. When i started doing that is when she drank it a lot more.
She loves ice cold milk. Literally I put 2 ice cubes in it and that way it can stay out longer too while she sips from it while playing.

@hilsy85: we do a sippy cup. I give it to her in her highchair with meals. We are nursing in the morning and at night. Sorry if confusing, using Siri!

@locavore_mama: I do work, but she comes with me, I am a nanny. She will not take breast milk from a cup… Only the tap. Lol.

@hilsy85: Yup! It took a little bit but it was easier than I thought it would be.