how did your child do drinking cows milk after mamas milk?

[CherryBombMama]

im not really sure where to post this ...

so i got pregnant and my milk dried up. i had a good supply of frozen milk that has lasted us until now, at 11 months. i knew my milk was going down, so when my ds was almost 11 months, i would give him a bottle of goats milk here and there(gentler on the tummy, i heard) and he drank it great for about three days, when i noticed a spotty rash on his diaper area and a pretty bad cough. so we stopped that. a week (and almost no mama milk) later, i tried a few bottles of cow milk, and again, he drinks it great, but i can tell he is having tummy troubles. he wakes up in the middle of the night crying, arching his back, is farting a ton! he also has a slight fever, but so do i, so i dont know if we caught a bug, or if i am sick and he is having a reaction ?!?

since he was so close to a year i was hoping to skip formula, esp since i feel the taste would be signficantly different to my milk and that the cows milk taste would be much closer.

anyways ... did anyone elses almost one-year-old react this way? or similar? or was it a smooth transition? my mama instints are going crazy and i dont know what to do!

[Thalia the Muse]

It sounds like he might have some kind of milk allergy or intolerance -- have you talked to a pediatrician?

[CherryBombMama]

Originally Posted by Thalia the Muse

It sounds like he might have some kind of milk allergy or intolerance -- have you talked to a pediatrician?

i totally forgot to add that part! he loves cheese and yogurt, eats them almost daily and i eat dairy/drink milk like crazy!! i mean, its the majority of my diet and he drank my milk with no problem ever. thats why im so confused!

[Thalia the Muse]

He might not react to it in your breastmilk, but still have a problem. And some people who can't tolerate milk can tolerate cultured products like cheese and yogurt.

[CherryBombMama]

so would one of the symptoms of not tolerating cow milk be fever?

[Thalia the Muse]

Um, maybe? I'd talk to a doctor! I'm just going off of things I read in "your baby and child" type books when my own kid was a toddler ...

[annettemarie]

Moving to Nutrition and Good Eating. You may also want to try Health and Healing.

[kyndmamaof4]

What type of cows/goat milk are you using? I *suddenly* became lactose intolerant maybe 7 or so years ago. I thought my body was just not accepting milk anymore. I was still able to eat cheese, yogurt, sour cream....but ice cream and milk tore my gut up

I noticed a couple of years ago that the milk we had been buying was "ultra-pasteurized" and that turned out to be the problem. Now that I found out that a local small dairy gently pasteurizes the milk, I am able to enjoy a nice tall glass anytime I want. Raw milk is illegal here, and the farmers in neighboring states have been "busted" bringing it in so many times, that it's nearly impossible to get it unless I join a 'smuggling ring' and bring the 5 or so hours east myself. I've figured that it wasn't worth it for us, since the milk here is treated very gently, and comes from grass-fed cows, no hormones, or antibiotics...it's worth the trade off to me.

If you live in a state where you can get access to raw goats milk or cow, I would try that...

Oh another thought, do you have any mama milk left? If so I would get some good quality milk and 1/2 and 1/2 it for a while till he gets accustomed to it.

Good luck!