A toddler that doesn't like milk.

Victoria - posted on 12/06/2011

My children don't drink milk but they have milk on cereal, they eat yogurt, cheese and they love milky pddings, rice pudding semolina etc. So I am not duly concerned especially as they also have a good mixed diet. My son will drink soya milk occasionally and they will both drink milk shake (but i don't buy them very often)!

Lindsey - posted on 12/04/2011

I would definitely try mixing formula with whole milk--start with half milk, half formula and then eventually get it to where you are giving her all regular milk. The milk proteins in formula are already broken down so a baby's stomach doesn't have to do it. They have to become used to regular milk and breaking down its protein so if you keep switching between straight milk and straight formula, her digestive system will never get used to regular milk. My daughter didn't want milk when we started giving it to her so we made it chocolate or strawberry milk and she started coming around. I don't think she had white milk for like 6 months! LOL. Just keep trying but definitely stop switching her between the two.

Meredith - posted on 01/18/2010

17 months and the same here. He tried it around 12 months and got hives around his mouth so I tried other milks and he would touch them. He has just now started to eat yogurt and loves cheese. I'm not going to push it.

Stephanie - posted on 01/18/2010

My son has recently started refusing milk completely - even his formula. There's always been a question mark over whether or not he'e allergic to cows milk although yogurts and cheese etc don't upst his tummy just make him spotty. Anyway I tried a different bottle different cups even my eldest son's beakers which my youngest is always drinking from but he just kept pushing everything away. This evening tho I tried warming the milk slightly and after a couple of tries he drank the whole lot. Babies are used to milk being warm and maybe it just takes a while to get used to it being cold.

Michelle - posted on 01/16/2010

I have the same problem, my son is 18 months old and won't drink cow's milk, when he tries or I mix it with formula, he gets diarreah. So I switched him to Lactaid, he still won't touch it! So I will just give my baby formula until he acquires a taste for it.

Amy - posted on 01/15/2010

My daughter won't drink milk either. She still nurses occasionally but she refuses milk completely. We tried every brand and flavor. I don't worry about it because her favorite food is cottage cheese. She would eat it 3x a day if we let her. However, I was the same way. When my mom stopped nursing me I drank milk for little while with strawberry in it, but before I was 2 I refused to even drink that. I've never drank milk since. Just be sure to feed her lots of calcium rich foods and all should be ok. Milk is not the "magic" drink that doctors make it out to be :-)

Tanya - posted on 01/06/2010

She may have a milk allergy, or an allergy to a steroid used in the cows. Try soy milk. they also make vanilla and chocolate. My daughter has many food allergies, not with all the typical warning signs. She gets sick and hyper, and can't sleep, if she has a no-no food.

Michelle - posted on 01/05/2010

My daughter is lactose intolerant (at first the allergist thought she was allergic but recently changed). It sounds like she might be a little bit lactose intolerant too. It may be giving her a tummy ache and she is trying to tell you that. If she can eat other dairy products she is not allergic to milk it is a lactose issue. Most lactose intolerant people (especially if it is mild) can eat cheese, yogurt and ice cream just fine. She might not try lactose free milk right away because she is scared too (they are smarter than you think). Pull back and try rice milk that it fortified with calcium, vitamin D etc or oat milk (fortified). You can try soy but that sometimes makes tummy's upset too. Later go back and try Lactose free milk, if she doesn't have loose stools that is the culprit. My allergist recommended giving my daughter yogurt (or acidophiles) to help build the enzymes in her stomach so she will out grow it quicker. If she were allergic to milk (which she isn't) she could generally eat milk if it was cooked at higher temperatures, like in cookies or casseroles because the heat breaks down the long protein chains of milk that children who are allergic can't usually digest.

Pink - posted on 01/05/2010

Leave her be, she is getting enough as is and you would not like being forced to take something you don't like would you? you can try again in a year time and hope she changes her tastes, but by keeping forcing her to drink it even a little you'll put her off for life or give her problems with intolerances. My son did not like fish so now he only gets it once in a long while and always disguised, maybe one day he'll start liking it better but I am not worried at all.

Brandy - posted on 01/05/2010

My son is allergic to cows milk but he can have all other dairy products, and cows milk is hard on the digestive system (which makes since if you think about the fact that cows have 3 stomachs to digest their food). I started him on goats milk and almond milk when I found out he was allergic (goats milk is the closest thing to human breast milk). He loves the goats milk and you can get it at Walmart. Also if you look at the amount of calcium and D3 your body needs compared to the amount in milk you are way under nourished. Whats recommended is for a healthy person and I haven't met a healthy person in a long time.

Ruth - posted on 01/03/2010

i weaned my son from the breast at 14 months and he has refused cows milk ever since we tried making hot chocolate for him but still no luck but he is the same he could eat yoghurt and cheese and will have milk on his musli fine and i feel he is getting enough from that and he is very happy and healthy i would not worry to much

Alison - posted on 01/02/2010

it sounds like your daughter has the same reaction that my daughter and i have with milk. like the other moms have said, cooked milk products are a great way to introduce milk. however, to give her milk to drink, try a skim milk. we tried skim milk then after a while started using 2% milk. another option is soy milk.

Nichole - posted on 01/02/2010

Post a reply!When I switched my son to cows milk i did half formula and half comws milk. After a couple of weeks I went to 1/4 formula and 3/4 cows milk and eventually he was off the formula and only on vitamin D milk. I think all together it only took me 4 weeks to get him off the formula. I hope this helps.

Magen - posted on 01/01/2010

I would try lactose free milk or soy or rice and see how she does with that, she may have a sensativity to the Milk. or try miking half mikl and half formula and see if that helps.

Winnie - posted on 12/31/2009

I have the same problem. After talking to other moms, I decided to continue feeding him cow's milk for the time being. Instead, I try to feed him food that I have cooked with milk, like macaroni and cheese, or creamed veggies. He gets sick after drinking cow's milk and then he doesn't want to eat for the rest of the day. Some moms I know have kids up to 3 years old and still have not started cow's milk. I know formulas are expensive, but I would rather not force something so uncomfortable on him until his little tummy is ready.