Smoothies

How old is your daughter? If she is less than one year old, it is still not recommended to give her goats milk. After one year, then treat it just like cow's milk.

You don't say how old she is. But a baby old enough to eat solids can usually tolerate Greek yogurt (made with goat's milk). That would probably be a better choice than straight up milk if she's < 1 year old.

You can add a little juice to make a smoothie. My older kids like smoothies mnade with yogurt, orange juice, and fruit, especially bananas. My baby will eat the yogurt plain or with bananas mashed in.

I never really thought about it befroe until my cousin's husband (who is originally from Jordan) fed my baby some watery goat's milk yogurt. Apparently, it's pretty common where he grew up. It didn't hurt my baby either (he was 7 months old).

You can make a smoothie with any liquid. I like to make them with mixed frozen fruits and yogurt in the blender. This would work with goat's milk too.

I see that your daughter is 8 months old. She should still be exclusively on breast milk or formula. You can give her smoothies as a fruit but not to substitute for milk. Since she may be having difficulty getting full enough, as you describe in a previous post, I also suggest that she should not be drinking water. Give her only breast milk or formula and foods high in nutrition including calories. She needs the fat as well as other nutrients that is in breast milk and formula. You can use the goat's milk as the base for the formula.

as long as your daughter is old enough, then give it a try with fresh fruit. Have you tried coconut milk? A nutritionist recently recommended that, talking about how cow's milk is not really intended for us to drink ('it's made for baby cows, not us.')

She gave me a recipe. The following is what she emailed me for my 2.5 yr old son. She said it is her 'super baby drink' that gives baby lots of necessary vitamins. She said this is for babies 9 months or older.
1 serving (8 oz) units
Vanilla Rice Protein 5grams
Coconut Oil 0.5tbsp
Fish Oil 0.25tsp
Green Magma/Barley 0.25tsp
Carrot Powder 0.5tbsp
Vitamin D 500IU
Maple Syrup 1tsp

Hi--
If I'm correct your baby is only 8 months old. My guess is she doesn't want goats milk because it isn't as good for her as breast milk. I know you're trying to get her to sleep longer, and I feel your pain because my oldest nursed every two hours around the clock until he was nearly a year old. I think you may just need to accept her diet for now. She really isn't ready for smoothies yet. To help yourself with the sleep situation I would recommend the following:
--Co-sleep, or at least put baby in a crib next to your bed so you don't have to get up and get her. Co-sleeping saved me because I could just roll over, put him on the other breast, and go back to sleep.
--Get some bach's flower rememdy "olive" flower essence. It is for exhaustion and is wonderful!
--If you are a SAHM then at least rest when she does, if you can't sleep. Things may fall by the way side at home, but really, that's just a natural part of having a baby at home. It starts to even out after a year, and gets way better after they are done teething.

Hang in there!!
J.