How is everyone switching to cows milk?

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What’s everyone’s plan for making the switch to cows milk around 1 year? What did your pediatricians say? 
Ours didn’t give much info at the 9month appt and we don’t have another one til 12 months. 
My girl has 4 bottles of formula now - about 20-24 oz total. Wondering how/when to start.

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my pediatrician said we could start introducing milk at 11months. same amount of formula or breastmilk, just added milk to meals and stuff. I'm going to give milk in a sippy cup at meals with things like bread or crackers, food I feel like would taste good with milk. you can mix regular milk with formula or breastmilk but i dont think it would taste very good so I'm not going to. I've started with 3 meals and snacks already so I've began cutting bottles slowly out but not completely and hes been fine.

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I’m going to start giving her whole milk in sippy  cups so I can start taking the bottles away. I have a 21 month old as well and she will only drink milk out of a bottle and have no clue how to take it away. So I don’t want to make the same mistake with my 11 month old. :) wish me luck!

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ours said once I'm done with breastfeeding to switch to whole milk so they have suffiy calorie intake. I assume if I keep breastfeeding I can hold off on cow's milk.

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I’ve started transitioning at 11mos. I’m doing half formula half cows milk and monitoring her stools. After the 3rd day stools are back normal. On day 5 of the transition I’m going to do all cows milk.

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I’ve started having my MIL give my daughter whole cows milk on days that I work. I work 3 days a week 4-5hrs a time. Just a few ounces in her sippy. Otherwise she still has water available all the time. I just got a yeast infection on my nipples and it is AWFUL. Peeling, cracking, burning 😭 so I’ve only been BF’ing 3-4 times a day and only on one side at a time.

How is everyone switching to cows milk?

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