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If you're currently giving Emma* infant milk, then this is fine to keep on using up until 12 months. Similarly, if you're giving her follow-on milk, then you can keep on using this up to the age of 24 months. You can offer cows' milk anytime from 12 months as a main drink, but do be aware that it is low in important vitamins and minerals such as iron and vitamins A and D, which your baby needs a lot of at this important stage when she is growing so much. As Emma* develops into a toddler, you could also consider giving her a fortified growing-up milk, which contains nourishing vitamins and minerals to help meet her growing needs, as part of her overall diet.

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i moved my son of baby milk and on to cows milk at 11-12 months as thats roughly when its recommended i know other mums who have but they child on cows milk at 6 months and others at 2 years but its up to you good luck

my 14month old son will not drink cows milk. I changed him over at 12 months and he hates it I have had to put him on a formula milk suitable for his age,hell have it in food but not as a drink. Has anyone had asimilar problem?

i put my daughter on too cows milk at 12 months and she was having none of it would not touch it, so i started to mix the formula with the cows milk slowly changing the amount of each in the bottles untill she was totally on too cows milk and have had no problems since i started with a 9oz bottle and had 8oz of formula and 1oz of cows milk and just slowly increased the cows milk and decreased the formula, i am sure the main reason for it is because formaula milk tends to have a sweeter taste than cows milk and so to normally have a seewtish milk to suddenly not having it is quite a shock and a very different taste. i hope this helps

My son has been drinking cows milk since he was 12 months old, but due to ecsaema (excuse the spelling!) I tried him on goats milk, not only is it easier to digest but he prefers it to cows milk and seems a lot more settled at bedtime.

i put my son on cows milk when he was 6 months old! he slept better and wasnt so sicky!!!!

i put my little girl on cows milk at 12 months and my 2 boys at 11 months and they loved it, they actually slept better and seemed more content.

My son is 11mths and during the last month or so he totally refused his formula milk.i was a bit worried coz i knew he need vitaims etc so i have moved him onto cow&gate growing up milk, which he loves plus he is getting all the vitaims he needs hope this helps good luck

i started to mix formula with cows milk a little at a time to , this worked really well. i started this when my daughter was about 10 months, we havent had a sleepness night since. my daughter is now a week away from being a year old and on a one 9oz bottle of cows milk at night and sometimes offered druing the day from a beaker. im 7 months pregnant and well certainly be doing it with this one. x

My son is 17 months, he will not have anything in his bottles except formula, I have tried not putting as much formula in as supposed to so watering it down, but he throws it at you.I brought new bottles still no joy, juice, sugar water, tea, cocoa is a no no, but he will drink any contents from his brothers bottles although he will not drink from them all the time.I never would have thought you could mix formula with cows milk so I will give this a go...fingers crossed.
Thank you for your help