When to offer cows milk?

[monkee12]

Would you wait until baby turns 12 months or the month they turn 12 months? How much would you offer and how many times a day? Baby is currently 10 months old x

 

[liz1985]

We switched to cows milk at 11.5 months. He was only having 7oz of formula a day at that point anyway. I just switched his usual formula for cows milk. I know some people do it gradually by mixing so much formula with so much cows milk, i think it depends how easily your lo adapts to the change in milk.

 

[MindUtopia]

We started to replace one bottle a day at 11 months (with the rest being formula), then another at 11.5 months and then switched completely on her birthday. She occasionally had some cow's milk as a drink with a snack around 10.5 months though, but not in place of formula at that point. You do exactly the same as you would for formula, feed on demand at the same times she'd normally have a bottle or cup of formula.

 

[irinac]

we did it at about 10 months

 

[+tivethoughts]

We made the switch just after 11 months.