Can she not have ANY milk until one year?

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My daughter is 11 months old and it’s 50-50 solids and breast milk. I can’t really tell how much milk she’s getting because she’s taking the milk directly from me but she eats three solid meals a day (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) with snacks in between. She’ll nurse an hour to an hour and a half before I give her solids and then I allow her to nurse after to “wash” down her food with. My question is, when can I start to slowly wean her to whole milk? Can I start giving her an once or two a day a few days a week until we make the full switch at a year? Or do we have to wait until she is one year to slowly introduce milk? She eats cheese and milk based products (baby yogurt) throughout the day and doesn’t have a problem with it. I’m just super nervous about how my breast will handle weaning her at a year and would like to give her as much time as possible to get used to drinking from a cup instead of nursing. Any suggestions would be great. Please no rude comments.

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You don’t have to wait. I started weaning my son off at 11 months and by 1 he was completely ok on milk. His dr was the one who said we could start earlier.

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You could try just a little bit of milk in a cup and see what she thinks. Give it to her after a meal or snack so it’s not replacing your BM or her food.

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My daughter was formula fed, but she started fighting her formula around 10 months. Once she turned 11 months I finished the can I currently had open and switched her straight to whole milk. She didn’t have any problems and actually drinks more whole milk than she was drinking formula. Switching four weeks early isn’t going to make a difference in the grand scheme of things.

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My older daughter was formula fed from 6-11.5 months. I bought the last can and said I was done whenever she finished it. I swapped her over to whole milk and she had no issue at all! 
At her 1 year visit (the day after her birthday) the doctor asked if we had transitioned and said to do so right away if we hadn't. I told him we had switched two weeks prior and he was perfectly fine with it. It's also the time to get rid of any bottles if you're using them!
I'm sure it's the same with breast milk because it's probably an even easier transition!

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We waited till 1 to do cows milk but I started giving my son water when he started solids. In our case we did watered down juice too because he would get very constipated and that would solve that. Just go straight to a sippy cup not a bottle.

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My son was completely switched to whole milk by 11 months. We started whole milk at about 10 1/2 months

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I’ve been letting my daughter taste milk since about 7/8 months and she’s had yogurt, cottage cheese etc.. she’s been drinking water from the 360 cup since 6 months and loves drinking from straws. She just turned 1 on May 12th. My breast milk dried up with my current pregnancy when she was 7/8 months so we had to switch to formula. About a month ago we started mixing formula and milk gradually making the formula less and less till it was gone. She had a straight milk bottle last night and this morning. Now to wean the bottle lol

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I'm starting offering milk at 10 months 🤷 it's up to you if you want to try something with babe won't harm them

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Ask your pediatrician. That’s the best thing to do and you will get the most accurate answer

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You can give her some milk or water to wash down instead her solids. It just shouldn't replace breast milk/formula until 12 months. I'm sure you could throw in some formula instead of breast milk too if you're trying to wean your boobs off of it.

Can she not have ANY milk until one year?

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