Milk Question

[AspenLL]

I'm seeing options for low-fat milk on some of the menus. Is whole milk readily available as well? We will be there at the end of April and my soon to be one year old will be transitioning from formula to whole milk in a few weeks. Thanks!

 

[Gracie09]

Most is 2%. When we had this issue our pediatrician said that a week of 2% isn't going to be detrimental, just give her plenty of ice cream to balance it out

 

[limpy]

We dealt with that by keeping whole milk in our hotel room fridge to give to our son in the morning and before bed.

 

[kuhltiffany]

I brought some of the vanilla flavoured toddler supplement packets and added that for calories when we went. I think it was called Enfagrow, I don't know if it's still around, my kids are 9 and 10 now…

 

[Thing 1]

You could always just keep her on formula till after the trip too. There is nothing magical about that first birthday that says that they have to go to whole milk right away. It's just that babies under one do not digest cows milk very well. Both of my boys were well over one when we switched to whole milk; one was super tiny and doctor wanted him on formula and the other super head strong and refused to drink milk.

 

[Crystal824]

When DD was one, we ordered whole milk and other items we needed for the trip from a grocery delivery service. She drank her milk in the room for breakfast (as we did most breakfasts in the room) and at night before bed.

 

[ForeverDance]

My youngest DD needs increased fat and calories so we have always worried about settling for 2%. We travel a lot for my older DDs basketball and I have always just brought milk with me. At 3 though we are moving away from sippy cups so bringing milk along isn't as easy as it used to be. Instead what we have started doing is asking for a couple of coffee creamers (the real Half & Half) and adding those to her milk. One cup of 3% is approximately 8g of fat and around 130 calories. 2% is approximatley 5g of fat and 120 calories. If you add two of those individual size (0.5 oz) creamers to the 2% you end up with a total of 8.4g fat and 158 calories. So it ends up fairly equivalent.

 

[limpy]

I like the strategy above. Our first was very skinny and need lots of fat - we snuck half and half into her bottles on a trip when she was 1.5 yrs old.

 

[Minnesota!]

One week on something other than whole will not be detrimental...

Says the mom who went from formula to skim.

 

[SEA333]

One week on something other than whole will not be detrimental...

Says the mom who went from formula to skim.

Haha....I remember worrying about this when my oldest was a baby - I hate whole milk, so we really did just buy it FOR HIM. Then he ended up being 100%-ile for height and weight, so we switched to skim pretty soon after. My oldest was 6 when my youngest was born, so by the time he went from formula to milk, the little guy drank whatever we had in the house and 9 years later is living to tell the tale with no harm done.

And, DS14 has now switched back to 2% because even though he was a head taller and 15-20 lbs bigger than his same-age peers throughout his life, he is now a 5'10" 160 lb high school Freshman Defensive End/Outside linebacker who wants to play college ball. Sigh. Now he has to GAIN weight. I'm kinda thinking about sneaking some extra heavy cream into his milk LOL

Honestly OP....the whole vs. skim vs. formula is looming big on your radar right now, but in the long run, unless your child has a severe medical issue that involves needing extra animal fat on a daily basis that she cannot live without, she will be perfectly fine with 5 grams of fat/serving (2%) rather than 8 grams (whole), for a week on vacation.

 

[nalajms]

The ice cream parlors used to carry whole milk.... now that they are starbucks, I'm not sure!

The stores at AKV should have them. I bought DD a thermos sippy and we take a bottle into the park.

 

[chloelovesdisney]

There is whole milk available in some locations in WDW plus we kept it in the hotel room but a cup of low fat milk here and there won't be a problem. Sometimes it was not available anywhere nearby, I was surprised it was somewhat limited there.

 

[Bluegrrl]

Although mine was breastfed, and may not exactly apply to you situation, we never do whole milk - instead we do yogurt which can be high-fat plus provide calories (if you worry about that) and is processed in a way that is different to cow milk (so transition is easier). There is also no reason to use cow's milk - my friend has a formula-fed baby that does not use cow milk at all. They use almond milk, which is also available to get. But with our boy, at resturants we always do water in a kids drink or apple juice. I agree with some other moms that there is no magical cut-off day for diets. Baby can stay on formula for the vacation or juice or whatever. Water might be right for kid. Also, you don't have to magically give them solids before one - you can still bottle or breastfeed after one. My DS is still BF (but we ARE phasing that out, I'm tired of it) There are so many options and you are going to get crazy rules from everybody. The only one to remember is not to give them honey until after one year.