Hi

Please help me i have 14 month old daughter weight 16 lbs. (out of chart)

she just started her teething( late teether) and she is not eating any dairy item milk,cheese, yogurt....only brest milk... please suggest me what should i do to encourage her to take anything else then brest milk. i feel she is not getting enough calcium and iron.

how to increase her weight and wean from brest milk?

everyone tells me stop giving her anything till she is ready to drink milk wait for atleast 2-3 days? what is your suggestion does it effect baby ?
plz help me new mom.
thanx Mel replied. Distracting is normal. Most toddlers are fussy about eating since they are newly mobile and want to wander around and play. They don' t want to sit in one place and eat. I give my son some cups of water / few katoris & spoons to bang / a small container with sand or raw rice to play with, and then feed him. If she likes cherios, let her eat cherios for breakfast, or after she has eaten some of her main meal.

I know the milk dilemma. But, the fact is that she doesn' t like the taste of cow' s milk, since she is used to the taste of breastmilk. Try giving her ONLY breast milk in a sippy cup. Once she is used to drinking from the sippy cup... and has your trust that it is filled with something she likes, then give her breastmilk mixed with a very small quantity of regular milk, then after a week gradually increase the qty of cow' s milk to half and half, and slowly (over 3 months or so) keep reducing the qty of breastmilk.

It' s not about how early they introduce milk, because I introduced formula milk from the 4th month on, and he didn' t like it much. Some children are just hungrier than others. My son still wakes once in the night for a feed, so I give him a bottle of milk then (when he' s quite sleepy) and most of the time he has it.

Hope this helps. All the best. Mel replied. Hi Pruth. Does your daughter eat other food properly ? Veggies, fruits, meats / beans, dals, etc ? There are a lot of alternate sources of calcium like leafy green vegetables, potatoes, carrot juice, gud, til (sesame seeds), mung dal, soy, dals and beans, brown rice, oats, etc. Ease her out of breastfeeding gradually. Don' t nurse her after meals, so that way she may eat more. Omit one nursing session per week. You can also give her calcium drops (McCalvit / Ostocalcium Syrup - Check with your doc, first).