17 Month Old Falling Out of Love with Milk

I'd check with your pediatrician to see what their recommendation is, but usually it's ~24oz of whole milk/day at that age. Our daughter would consume twice as much if we'd let her.

If he doesn't enjoy it anymore or just won't take anymore, I'd ask your pediatrician on their recommendations on replacing the nutrients lost on milk. Perhaps they'll recommend rice/soy milk if the taste is more pleasing to your son. They may recommend adding more broccoli, cheese, yogurt, etc. to replace the calcium/fat of whole milk.

I'd also ask if they recommend a multi vitamin at his age. Our daughter started on 1/2 of a Flintstone's vitamin around 18 months.

I don't know if that helps, but that would be my best guess.

Children over age 1 yr should have 16 or so oz of milk or milk products per day, no juice. Do not flavor the milk as the flavorings just ad sugar to the milk... Use a bup, no bottles...

That sounds like a lot of milk, but I'm a mom of a toddler who didn't start drinking milk until he was 20 months. Even then, he would only drink it when he had cereal, never in a cup. As long as he's getting other dairy and calcium-rich foods, I wouldn't be too concerned about it. Dairy like eggs, cheese, yogurt and Ca foods like broccoli :) Just wait until he goes into a phase where he has days where he won't want to eat ANYthing or will decide he's not eating meat anymore, which are both normal for a toddler, as well. Enjoy!

My daughter is 20 months, loves loves loves water and refuses whole milk. She will drink a little of gramma's non-fat, and sometimes will drink some low-fat for me, if I warm it up and we have "coffee" together... So, we are still nursing, which adds to the problem as much as fixing it :) We eat as much yogurt, cheese, and fresh veggies as I can get her to take to help cover what she may be missing and have added flinstone chewables ( or Disney princess gummies!) to help, too. It has always been this way for us, so that is how we make do, but it sounds like this may just be a phase... I'd add water to make sure he gets enough fluids and make sure you get some good veggies and vitamins and alternative dairy sources stocked for a while until he likes his milk again :)

My 18 month son has been doing the same. I try to offer milk in the morning after breakfast without any other drinks. I also try to offer it to him before bedtime. I just try to offer him cheese and yogurt to get the benefits of calcium. My husband believes the milk may be too cold so I let it sit out to warm up a bit.

This doesn't sound out of the ordinary to me. Try giving him some cheese, yogurt or other dairy product with his food if you're concerned that he isn't getting enough milk. He should be offered water to drink often during the day as well. If he's eating a good variety of foods I wouldn't worry too much about his milk consumption.

My advice from my nutritoinist when we came up on this.....get chocolate and strawberry syrup and put it in there.....that usually gets them...aslo....she told me to mix and orange drink, powder or juice with milk..and it tastes like an orange creamsicle....my girls did not like that....also you can try the carnation instant breakfast packets and mix them with the milk...those were winners with my girls as well.....

oh, also another way for getting that milk product in them...get the gogurt sticks, freeze them (less mess and fun) and let them eat that....I would give a half stick first go round..but my girls loved it.

I got all of those ideas from our nutritionist, which was a blessing to have!

Hope those help!