11 month old will not drink any milk at all!!!?

Question

My daughter until recently was having a bottle of formula in the morning and at night but has completely gone off it full stop!!

She refuses the bottle!

I have tried various cups, milkshake, hot chocolate, cows milk, soya milk, rice milk you name it i have tried it!!

She drinks a lot of juice and will have fruit smoothies etc but just not milk!

I make sure she has plenty of cheese, yoghurt etc but any ideas on how to get milk into her?!!!!!

Help!

Answer 1

If she doesn't want it, I wouldn't force it to her. You said she eats cheese and yogurt and that she's been eating juice and fruit smoothies, that's just fine.  

Answer 2

You can't force her to drink something she doesn't want to drink, but you can try some things to make it more fun.  My mom used to make a "purple cow", which is simply grape jelly mixed with milk.  She used the no sugar jelly and only used a little so it didn't add any sugar to the milk.

If you shake it up really well the milk turns purple and takes on a little bit of a grape taste.  We (my brother and sisters and I) used to love it.  

Good luck!

Edit - I would hesitate to add anything that would add extra sugar to the milk.

Answer 3

Maybe you can try a formula or milk based fruit smoothie? You never know, she might just love it.

Good luck!

Answer 4

Try adding Nestle Quick chocolate/strawberry.  Maybe a little added flavor will appeal to her.

Answer 5

you should bring this up to the pediatrician. At 11 months the baby should still be getting some formula- then at 1 year weened to cows milk.