Cows Milk

We never had any probs with Jack so I am not quite sure what this could be. I would suggest stopping cows milk for a while and if poss going back to what you used to do? formula? Maybe wait a few days/week until she over better and then maybe try introducing it again slowly and see what happens.

Does she eat alot of yoghurt, cheese etc? I was told by Plunket that it didn't matter if Jack didn't drink alot of milk as he already got alot of the nutrients in the yoghurt, cheese, milk with cereal etc.

Good luck

I am not familiar with formula as Jack was bf but maybe she is having trouble digesting the cows milk during the night as opposed to formula? Could you somehow slowly introduce the cows milk at night? Sounds like she is probably getting plenty of dairy foods at the moment.

If she has a temp it sounds like it may be a virus, not the milk. Especially considering she was tolerating the milk in the morning with no probs before. I'd go back to formula for a few days and see if it settles down .... but it sounds to me like shes sick, not having a reaction/intolerance to the milk, as that shouldn't result in a fever.

We are giving her blue top milk.

She has 200ml in the morning, and has been for 2 weeks, she has water throughout the day, and 200ml after her bath before bed.

Is it to much?

I don't think it is necessarily too much for a child her age, but perhaps it is too much for her right off and she is getting a sore tummy. I would go back to the old way for a couple of days to see if that remedies the problem and then reintroduce the new way. Obviously if you notice the same change again then it's the milk.

You could drop some of her milk drinking though, I don't think it's too much but it is at least plenty. I would give her a bottle of water in the morning (because she doesn't need to fill up, she's about to have breakfast: weetbix and milk) and a bottle of cows milk at night.

I had major problems putting my first onto cows milk - we thought he was lactose intolerant. He used to get tummy-aches at night, really windy (farty) during the day and horrific diarrhoea. He was just miserable. He couldnt even handle whole-milk in cooking either. I had him on whole-milk formula and so we figured it wasnt lactose-intolerant but intolerant to the fat content in the blue-top milk. We put him onto skim milk and he was back to normal almost instantly which proved our theory. (whole-milk formula is lower in fat content than normal blue-top milk and has a similar fat content to skim milk)

Anyway, we started giving him the skim milk and now, 6 months later, he has grown out of the problem and is back having normal blue-top whole milk all the time.

I suggest if she is okay on a whole-milk formula, try skim milk and see if it helps.