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Re: How much milk needed after weaning...

In a message dated 2/27/2000 9:02:40 AM Eastern Standard Time,
 writes:

> I rarely have trouble getting toddlers to drink milk.  I simply introduce
>  whole milk at about 10-11 mos. of age but only in a cup. Then I have the
>  parents gradually give more and more cups and fewer bottles or episodes of
>  breast feeding over the next 2-3 mos. and wean the child directly to a cup.
>  This way they never associate the taste of milk with a bottle and it isn't
>  "baby food".

I agree.  The kids I've seen who have had the most trouble with weaning
switched to milk, but got it in a bottle, not a cup.  It's much easier if
they never see milk in a bottle--just formula.

Moshe Adler, MD