Cow's Milk - Tempe,AZ

I think that would be just fine! One thought is to mix the bottles so both have 1/2 cows milk and 1/2 breast milk.... she may take to the transition better!

Barring any allergies or other problems...of course it is! There isn't some magical transformation that takes place exactly on their first birthday. One year old is a guideline indicating readiness for most of the population. If you're concerned about digestibility, goat's milk is a good and healthy alternative.

There is no magic switch in your baby's body that flips on 4/10 so she can suddenly have cow's milk. Unless you or she have a history of food allergies starting a few weeks early will be fine.
Good luck.

Seems fine to me. I started my son on cows milk when he was 11 months old. He just wasnt in to formula any more. I also started him on a multi vitamin (polyvisol w/ iron by enfamil) to make sure he was getting vitamins he needed when transitioning off the formula on to the whole milk. He did great on that. He is now 2 and still takes the vitamins.

I'm not a pediatrician but she's close enough to being 1 that one serving of milk would be okay, I would think. Of course, if she was a preemie then it might not be appropriate.

The best thing to do would be to consult with her pediatrician and get their professional, educated opinion.

It is 100% ok to introduce cow's milk - you've done a FABULOUS job nursing and you should feel completely comfortable introducing cow's milk. I nursed my daughter, who is now 21 months, for exactly 1 year without giving her a drop of formula. I intended to nurse longer but she literally quit nursing on her b-day. I had a few month's of breastmilk in the freezer so introduced cow's milk with the frozen breastmilk and she didn't bat an eye. She's a thriving toddler at the moment who loves milk and hardly ever drinks juice. Go for it and don't worry about your supply - you've done an amazing job.

You don't mention how much your daughter is eating otherwise, but it sounds like milk is still her primary source of nutrition. I don't think cow's milk is evil as some posters do, but it is different than breastmilk - formula exists for this reason, and that may be a better solution while she's drinking a lot of it. But whichever you choose, kids can have much different reactions to different kinds of formula and different kinds of milk (both goat v. cow, etc., and levels of fat - mine couldn't do full-fat milk til he was over 2), so introduce whatever your choice slowly and warn daycare what you're doing.

If you want her to get some breastmilk in each bottle you can make her bottles half of each.

That's fine. You want to gradually introduce milk into her diet, not all of a sudden switch her to having ALL her drinks on one day be a different milk. *No wonder* there is so much problem with people having milk. It is not the milk itself, it is the amount of our consumption of milk. How many bottles do babies have a day? (Sorry, I recognize a rant beginning. I'm a dairy veterinarian's wife and I KNOW how safe our milk supply is - organic is not any different, just more expensive.)

Anyway, yes, go ahead and supplement with regular cow's milk. Gradually as your body (and child) naturally diminish the nursing, her body will be ready for regular milk & drinks (water is still the #1 drink our bodies need.)

K., i have a 19 months old daughter, and i had this same problem like yours. My supply also was cut short when my daughter was 7 months old. But still i didn't stop breastfeeding. When my supply was less, i started giving her formula. After that when she was 14 months,i switched on to cow's milk. I am giving her breast milk twice,just to keep my supply,since i am planning to nurse her till she is two.
You can start giving your daughter cow's milk when she is 1 year old as you pediatrician said.(after all its a foreign drink,better to delay it then to have it early). Start giving diluted cow's milk at first and then later on you can increase the quantity of milk and reduce the quantity of water. This way, you can know your daughter's lactos allergy. And please do boil the milk for atleast 15-20 minutes,before giving to the baby. This i am telling cos i had a friend who's baby got sick just because the milk was not properly boiled.She use to boil milk just for 10 min. ie,she use to turn off the burner when the milk is boiled. I would prefer to simmer the burner for atleast 15-20 minutes,after the milk is boiled. My grandfather was a microbiologist,he use to advice this. After all- "prevention in better than cure".

Have you asked your pediatrician about switching to cows milk? Your pediatrician will have the best reccomendation for you. What about donated breastmilk? I have heard that there are donated breastmilk banks that people like you can go to. I don't know anything about it, but I have heard about it recently. I am sure you could find more information if you googled it or asked your pediatrician or a lactation consultant at your local hospital. I know some people may be squemish about using another woman's breastmilk to feed their babies, but it is healthy and good for them and is a better alternative to switching to cow's milk before she's 1. Also, what about using formula? It is made for babies and is better for them than cows milk.

Cow milk is not a good substitute for breastmilk--cow's milk is designed for calves, not humans. :)

Use formula instead if you're concerned about nutrition. Babies are supposed to get most or all of their nutrition from formula or breastmilk for the first year, and solid foods are just for experimenting with & learning about and should not be the main source of nutrition. Formula is designed and tested to make sure it provides complete nutrition for the baby (just as nature designed breastmilk to be! :)

However, it's perfectly normal for your body to be decreasing it's supply (especially pumping!) as the baby's nursing decreases and solid food intake increases.

Also, it probably is a good idea to start introducing the cow milk, if you want to offer it, now, rather than wait. Just have it be another experiment in food, and offer her some (as you would water). And it should be whole milk, not 2% or 1% or skim--the babies need the extra fat.

Pumping is hard to do for most Moms past a certain month - usually after 4 months. The machine is so inefficient compared to the child's suckling. Your supply is stable, you just cannot artificially express. If you are unable to pump enough for her consumption while you are away - I'm sure a bottle of organic cow or goats milk would be fine. Goats milk is much closer to human milk and has smaller, easily digested proteins - which cow's milk does not.

Be really careful. All cows milk is not the same. Most is GMO and very dangerous. Europe does not allow any GMO products to come into the EU. Get Organic Cows milk as it won't be GMO.
It's not just allergies anymore but a whole way to destroying the nutrition in our food.
I'm not a voice in the wilderness. It's been 42 years of Organic Food in America and those who grew up on it are infinitely healthier than those who ate normally produced pesticide and herbicide ridden foods.
So Organic Valley is nationwide and it is Organic. It costs a bit more but what I saved spending at the doctor far outweighed what it cost me to raise my children on Organic food.
While every other household had sickly and/or allergic kids mine did not.