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Advice or Help with tricks on getting kids to drink Milk....here is what i wrote.......I am sure we all have some kind of stories.....or maybe not......SHARE SHARE SHARE....

I saw you question about the milk.....i just wanted to tell you that my twins also had problems drinking milk...I went out and bought the Fat free French vanilla creamer (internationl delight) and mixed it with milk...we call it yummy milk...and we love it.....everyone drinks yummy  milk now......Only thing was that it became a habit with us...now all of our milk is flavored......But  hey they drink MILK....

I'm in the process of switching my daughter from formula to milk.  She wouldn't switch outright.  I've found that mixing formula and milk together works.  I'm slowly decreasing the amount of formula I add.  Also, another thing that made a huge difference was the temperature.  I always gave her formula that was room temp.  When I first tried milk, I just pulled it out of the refrigerator.  Now I put her sippy cup in a cup of hot water for a few minutes to warm it up.  Good luck. 

try soy milk. i was just wondering the other day if it was ok fo babies to have soy milk so i looked it up, i saw alot of sites recommending to try soy milk if they wont drink regular cows milk. we normally dont have milk in the house since niether my husband or i will drink we only have it in the house if we need to cook with it but we will drink soy milk. i drank alot of chocolate soy milk when i was pregnant it helped with the heart burn for awhile then stopped working =/.

It was hard switching Jacob to regular milk. He hated it. I just kept trying to give him chocolate and strawberry milk instead. I asked his dr about it and she said not worry, even if he eats something like ice cream, or yogurt its ok, as long as he is getting calcium. Now he drinks milk fine, he isnt the biggest fan, but he at least drinks it.

the doctor said to switch simon over to milk it think its going to wait till his formula is gone still have a whole can left dont want to waste it. hopefully he will take to it fine.

Try using the formula you have left to mix with milk.  That will get him used to the taste.  I started mixing in a small amout of milk at a time and then raised the ratio of milk.  I think alot of kids have trouble switching because the whole milk is so much richer than the formula.  Good luck.

hey hey  looking for updates and any other isses w the switch  how many had the runnier poos w switch, slighty shiny fanny from different acidty levels   etc...  are all of you happy now

When I switched my daughter from breast feeding to drinking cow's milk, she refused for weeks....

Until I tried adding just a little bit of strawberry syrup and she drank it down fast.  After awhile, I just stopped adding it and she still drank it.

i really have had problem swicthing Garrett to milk from formula he loves it,but i did though notice that his poo pattern had changed he had become really loose stools and then it he drank to much milk he would become constapated. I had spoke to his dr. and she suggested to try soy milk and he drank that so much better and his stools were ok. I now have him on soy milk and if i try to give him reg. milk he trows it up.

we switched simon without any problems. we would give him his milk and he would just chug it down. right now he will drink the milk fine sometimes other times he wants nothing to do with it and just wants water.

Rivers didn't have an issue with this.  We continued to use the formula in the morning and evening with his bottle and milk during the day in a sippy.

As our formula supply got smaller we reduced the number of bottles with formual and increased the milk.  Once the formula was all gone, so were the bottles and he has been 100% milk / sippy.  The whole transition took about 3 weeks.

Good idea!!!!

Amber refused also, and I was told breast milk is sweet. So I added ovaltine (it has some vitamins) only 1 tbsp (they say 4 tbsp) to her milk. I haven't had any problems and she loves it.