1 Year Old Just Started Cow's Milk

Do you give him breakfast and lunch, or just the milk and snacks?
Sounds like he needs more food, like cereal and fruit in the morning and a protein and veggies at lunchtime

He sounds hungry to me! I think he needs regular meals, he could really even eat what you eat, just cut up well. We used a slap chop to make food the right consistency for a 1 year old. He should be getting protien and whole grain carbohydrates with his fruit and his veggies, and it kind of sounds like he is just getting one good meal a day in the baby food meal. What about cereal and eggs with his fruit for breakfast, some cheese and whole grain bread peices with his veggies for lunch? Milk is not a meal like formula was. He needs quite a bit of fat in his diet now too for healthy development, so as long as you are not feeding junk, you probably can't over feed.

M.

When my son turned one, he was on a three meal a day, two or three snacks PLUS all that milk! He has always been a really good eater.

Try giving your son whatever you are having to eat - you know, if you are having toast and eggs for breakfast, give him a piece of toast and eggs (or just the yolk if he prefers) and fruit. Lunch should have some protein and some fruit of veg and dinner should be the same. Snacks like yogurt and graham crackers are great for keeping the tummy full and giving that extra energy.

Sounds like he is ready for adult-timed and adult-like meals! Do it!!

At a year old my daughter was eating way more than what you son eats. She drank milk and nursed three times a day. She also at three regular meals everyday and pretty much no baby food anymore. For breakfast she ate cereal (regular "adult" cereal) or oatmeal and fruit. For lunch she had yogurt, fruit and some veggies, sometimes part of a sandwich. Dinner was whatever we were eating - spaghetti, chicken, whatever. Granted, she didn't chew that well, so dinners were a bit more challenging - lots of noodles at that time! She also had snacks throughout the day like cheese and grapes, graham crackers, etc. I really think your baby boy needs more real food!

EDIT/ADDITION: I'm not trying to be rude or tell a nutritionist that she is wrong, but I think you should have all the information. There have been numerous studies done to show that soy actually has significantly MORE estrogen than cow's milk. I'm not saying that there aren't benefits to soy, but the lower estrogen levels is not one of them. This is one reason we decided against soy for our own child instead of cow's milk - another reason is that it has very little calcium and no vitamin D to aid in the absorption of calcium. We're trying goat's milk instead. Here is just one article with that information regarding soy milk, but there are many, many more:

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey...

Good luck!

Dear N.,

As someone who has worked in the health care business for almost 50 years now, (as an acute-care RN and now as a Chiropractic Physician and Clinical Nutritionist, cow's milk does NOT do a body good. The proteins in it are harmful to the human, increasing and thickening mucus fields. This can become such a concern as to impact the lymph fields, creating disease.....they are labeled auto immune diseases and include such things a lymphoma, leukemia, diabetes, scleroderma, lupus, etc.

Healthy milks include anything made from plants: soy (it has FAR less estrogen in it than cow's milk .... and when you avoid the processed soys and stay with the whole bean, it is FABULOUS for the human system. If you want to make your own (super easy and seriously cheap...a quart can cost as little as 8 cents!), check out the Soy Toy at www.notmilk.com)_, rice, nuts or, the VERY best, coconut. There is a whole new line of coconut milks and associated products (ice cream, yogurt, kefir) available from the Turtle Mountain Food company here in Eugene Oregon that is simply superb! Not all have coconut flavor so you have a choice. It is just the very BEST oil/milk for the human system.

Cow's milk leaches calcium ,.... yes it contains 'the most calcium' but that doesn't mean the body uses it as it is not in the right ratio to other minerals... it actually empties it down the toilet along with other calcium due to the fact that it adds so much protein to a child's daily diet.

Cow's milk can not be considered a 'healthy' choice. Traditional Western Medicine still claims it is best but that is a myth fostered by the Dairy association .... actual research proves that wrong. Avoid getting caught up in their marketing.

Dr. S. K

It sounds to me like you are on the right track, and just need to increase the amounts of healthy foods you offer in order to satisfy his appetite. I'm fairy sure that milk has fewer calories and nutrients than formula - at this age, solid food should begin to take over as the primary source of nutrition.

When my daughter was around that age, I fed her basically the same diet I ate but in age appropriate portions. For instance, fruit alone is probably not enough of a breakfast - maybe add some low-sugar cereal or a whole wheat bagel. As long as you offer healthy foods you shouldn't need to worry about over-feeding him, but talk to your pediatrician if you feel he is becoming overweight.

Sorry, you haven't said what you're giving him for breakfast or lunch. At a year old he should be eating three meals of solids a day and that should count for more than his milk. Our nine-month-old twins, for example, already eat something like this:
8 a.m. - 6-oz bottle of formula
8:30 a.m. - 3 oz. baby cereal (oatmeal, barley, whatever) each
9-11:30 a.m. - nap
11:30 a.m. - 3 oz formula each
12:30 p.m. - 2 oz veggies/meat each and 2 oz fruit/yogurt each
1:30-3:30 - nap
4 p.m. - 6 oz formula each
5:30 p.m. - 2 oz veggies/meat each and 2 oz fruit/yogurt each
7 p.m. - 6 oz formula each and bed

I think you need to concentrate more on the solids than worry about the milk. By one he should be able to feed himself all sorts of things like breads, bagels, veggies, cheese, eggs, pasta, meats, tofu, etc., all with his fingers. It depends on how your baby is, though. Our first was really picky so he ate a lot of cereal and not a big variety of finger foods or jarred foods.
The fruit you mention giving him is not going to fill him up. Fruits have a lot of natural sugars and are digested quickly. Try to give him cereal or something with sustenance for breakfast and for snack maybe crackers and cheese and fruit. I see from your post that he hasn't mastered chewing and swallowing yet, but you can break things up into bite-sized pieces for him. He can also eat a yogurt for snack or a meal or whatever. Plain yogurt with fruit bits in it or even the regular yogurt is fine for him at this age. Quinoa has a lot of protein in it, so that's good to mix in with some of the jarred veggies. Beans are a good finger food, too, as they are easily mushed with the gums/teeth. He could eat omelet at meals - that's also easy to chew and swallow.
Hope that helps!

If your baby is hungry, feed him. Children are more in tune with their appetites than adults. Don't withhold food from him. I know you have made a change to organic whole cow's milk, which of course is healthier than the ultra pasteurized growth hormone antibiotic filled regular milk...YET there is something MUCH MUCH better than even organic - and you should DEFINITELY look into feeding your baby (or anyone) this instead. It's raw milk. My kids thought organic milk tasted like rubbish after trying raw milk and its a MILLION times healthier for your anyone. Here are some articles you can read up on (and by the way its a ton cheaper) for example, here we pay $ 6.00 for ONE gallon of organic....for raw milk its
$ 2.50 a gallon (but the price shouldn't be the factor here, but the health benefits) Please check out this link (has a ton of articles you can read up on this and become better informed):

http://search.mercola.com/results.aspx?k=raw%20milk

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/0...

http://www.realmilk.com/

WHATEVER YOU DO - DO NOT GIVE YOUR BABY (or anyone for that matter) SOY MILK !!! Anyone who tells you this is completely uninformed and clueless; do the research - the media will spout it as the new super food - it is SO BAD FOR YOU, it WILL damage your health - read up on it:

http://search.mercola.com/Results.aspx?k=soy%20milk

It sounds like you're considering the milk to be his meal, but giving him little snacks in between his bottles. At this age he should be eating more solid foods and filling in with milk.

In the morning try giving him some fruit AND cereal, or fruit AND eggs in addition to the milk. Lunch should be veggies AND a protein AND a starch...dinner the same thing.

I think your little guy needs more food and more nutrition.

Good for you for asking!

I agree with most of the other responses! He should be eating just like you only in smaller portions! When my oldest was about 6 months old I discovered the menu plans on the gerber website and found them very helpful. They give sample menus for each age group from birth up to 3 or 4 I believe! As for the type of milk, thats your choice- everyone will have "scientific and medical" reasons why ANY kind of milk is the best... tho whole milk is obviously the number one choice for 1 year olds regardless of who you ask lol. But i think you question was more about his hunger not the kind of milk :P

Hello,

I would also agree that it sounds like he is still hungry. At one my kids were eating 3 meals a day plus snacks.

Breakfast:
Oatmeal, toast, banana with a side of Cheerios, muffin

Snack:
Fruit puffs, crackers, fruit

Lunch:
Mac & cheese, chicken noodle soup with crackers, diced up PB&J

Snack

Dinner:
Spaghetti (any pasta), diced fruit, meat - cut up tiny

Plus they would get all the milk and juice recommended as well throughout the day.

It's amazing how strong their little chompers really are :)

It sounds like you need to start offering more food at each meal. Fruit is good in the morning, but try paring it with some oatmeal or eggs, or even yogurt or cottage cheese. For lunch he should be getting some kind of protein with those vegis, my boys loved those little Gerber meat sticks (I know they look awful, but they loved them), or cheesy noodles or something like that. He is getting old enough to start eating more "grown up foods", so maybe try something like those Gerber Boxed meals, we took those with us when we would go out. Now that he is on cows milk the majority of his nutrition should be coming from food, milk is just a healthy drink to go along with it. It is time to start using the food pyramid as your guide. (I did not use peanut butter until my son was 2, peanut allergies can be the most dangerous, and that along with honey is not recommended until after the age of 2)

His body is probably preparing to go through a growth spurt. So let him eat as much as he wants. At his age, his body will know what is best.

dont let people freak you out about cows milk!! My son is 1 also and eats like we do. He eats breakfast (oatmeal, egg, or banana and cereal) with small sippy of milk. then after nap a small snack ( I like the gerber cereal bars or fruit strip things or string cheese cut up very small) and juice or water. For lunch we do pb&j or soup or mack and cheese (or some type of pasta) and veggies/fruit and milk. then again after nap a small snack and for dinner, usually what we are eating and small cup of milk. I think that the american academy of pediatrics has a sample menu of different ages. You could probably google it.

Also just want to add that my son eats almost everything and only has 2 teeth on the bottom and the 2 on top just popped through.

My girls had a hard time with cow's milk (we had to do soy instead), and I was concerned that they felt hungry, too. I ended up just giving them what I was eating, but cut up into smaller bites! So if I was having Cheerios for breakfast, they would have some, too. If I had chicken soup for lunch, I'd feed them chicken soup. Lasagna, spaghetti, Indian takeout, whatever - they ate it all! Of course, some of these things depend upon how well your baby can chew/gum down food (baby food mill may be helpful here, to puree things for him if need be), as well as his willingness to try different tastes. Some babies really love to eat "big people" food, and some don't. I would just say that a good guideline is whatever you're eating, maybe dialed back to suit his tastes, and about a tablespoon or two at a sitting. If you stick with the jar baby food purees, then maybe just keep offering him food until he rejects it at each sitting. I'd also try to make sure he gets a blend of carb, fat and protein at each sitting; that will help him feel full longer.

at a year, he should be able to eat nearly anything that you eat (cut up, obviously)...I nurse my daughter when she wakes up (or give her a bottle of whole milk - she never drinks more than 4 oz, but that doesn't mean your 8 oz is too much). She eats real breakfast (sometimes with the bottle) consisting of some of these options - scrambled egg, veggie sausage, fruit, cereal, yogurt, mini pancakes, waffles, cheese. Usually a small snack in the am, regular lunch with milk (quesadilla, yogurt, cheese, 1/2 veggie burger, beans, peas, other veggies and fruits, etc) - bottle in the late afternoon, after she wakes from her nap, then normal dinner and nurse before bed.

Because milk doesn't have all the vitamins and everything of formula your child will start getting all of that through food (just like adults) so he should start eating more and more food with milk acting as a drink to accompany the food not the food itself like formula or breastmilk does. Sounds like you are on the right path. Just keep offering him more food choices, moving towards a normal meal schedule (with a few snacks in there) and he will eat what he needs. a 1 year old is very unlikely to over eat - they are pretty darn good at eating what they need.

I didn't read any other responses, but milk shouldn't be the only thing he gets plus snacks. Your child should be eating three normal meals, just like you do plus a snack in the mid afternoon.

For instance a normal day for my little one who is 15 months is... Breakfast: scrambled eggs, cherrios, strawberries and toast as well as milk. Lunch: Deli turkey meat, cheese chunks, watermellon and cherrios or puffs and milk. Snack: fruit or yogurt or something as well as puffs and/or cherrios or kicks cereal. Dinner: She has whatever we eat just cut up small. Then she'll have milk before bed. We offer her water throughout the day also. She has been eating like this since prior to turning one. Basically at your childs age he should eat just like you but cut up small for him to chew. :)

At 1 both of my sons ate 3 meals a day. They would have cereal and fruit for breakfast, and some sort of meat, veggies and fruit for lunch. Dinner time was more difficult because they always wanted to eat what we were having. They also had snacks as they needed.
Children are growing rapidly at that age and need to eat well balanced meals to maintain and grow. You cannot over-feed a growing boy.

my 10 month old is gettting adjusted to milk/formula I want to start weaning her to milk and she eats way more than what you have posted for your son. she wakes at 7:30 has her rice cereal mixed with pureed fruit 1/2 cup then a 7oz bottle milk about 1/2 hour later.
morning nap then 7oz water or diluted juice,
lunch 2 containers baby food and yogurt. 7oz milk afternoon nap.
dinner 2 containers baby food.
play /bath then banana mashed into 1/2 cup cereal then 7oz milk/formula then bed, im not big on the snacking unless i dont have her meal ready in time. try feeding him more and see if he gets satisfied. gl

At one year old, mine were eating three meals a day plus one or 2 snacks, especially my first, who quit breast feeding on her first birthday. And as I recall, (youngest turned 16 today, so it's been awhile) they all needed to eat breakfast shortly after they got up, or around 7:30. They ate lunch at noon, nap at 1:00. Then dinner at dinnertime. They did drink water throughout the day and those who still nursed after age one, nursed. But I'm really sure they all ate regular-baby size and kind- meals by the time they were one.
Maybe you should just plan on feeding your baby a breakfast of fruit and cereal, then take it from there...plan on lunch, dinner...
Good luck.

I have a 13 month old and she has about 6 ounces when she wakes up and then a regular breakfast (waffles, eggs, banana, etc..). She then has a morning snack at 10:00. She eats lunch around Noon and has a few ounces of milk with lunch. She then has a 3:00 snack and a 5:00 dinner. She has about 4-6 ounces of milk with dinner. My pediatrician said to give no more than 16 ounces of whole milk per day and then give them water also. I would definitely not give juice since there is no health benefit to it and if they get used to it they may not want regular water. The 1st couple of weeks starting the milk my daughter was a little fussy due to the change, but I let her eat as much as she needed.

Feed him three normal meals a day, as well as two healthy snacks if he needs them. You also need to talk to your doctor about nurtition. So many people have differing opinions on nutrition, and what they think is best, but it is all personal preference. Your doctor can help you decide what is best for your child, they have recommendations, and do research for a reason.
My children all had regular cow's milk, and we do whole mile to age 2 and then 2% after that, but we are now drinking 1%. I will not consider soy as a regular replacement, due to the lack of research about it and the increase of estrogen. I think it is distgusting, but my kids like it. I have never pruchased organic milk, don't feel the need to buy into the entire organic industry. If you want truly organic grow it yourself, then you know for sure. If anyone is considering going with raw milk, they should consider the facts about the safety when drinking raw. Small children may not be able to fight off anything in the milk, that is why we drink pasturized milk, juice, etc. THey are so small, and their immune systems are not fully developed to deal with something, but if you know the dairy farm, and trust them, that would be a different story. The point is to be aware of what you are buying and eating, and most people thrive just fine on normal (non-organic) foods. It is all personal preference, in most cases there is no need to switch. Good Luck, you are on the right path, just add some more healthy stuff in there, and he will be full and thriving!