Stopping Whole milk?

[bella99]

My daughter turned two last month.

For much of the last year, she has been drinking goats milk, due to a milk protein sensitivity causing eczema, random vomiting, and very icky and frequent poops.  In October, we slowly started to introduce whole cow's milk, and have transitioned away from goat's milk.  It's been very successful.  No eczema, no vomiting, and her poop has been "great"!  It's very nice since we're now paying less for half a gallon of organic whole milk than we were for just a quart of goats milk.

So anyway, here's my question.  Is there any reason to keep her on the whole milk or should we think about 2% at this point or doesn't it matter?  Weight wise, she's in the 35th percentile or so, pretty much where she has always hung out, so that's in the back of my mind too, although the calories between the two isn't really significant, just the fat.

[JBaxter]

I have never changed to 2% and my oldest is 19 (years).  Every one here likes the whole milk better they are average milk drinkers and healthy weights ( all 4 boys).

I also buy from a local dairy where the milk is not the ultra pasturized that you get in the store. It is pasturized but not homogenized ( the cream will come to the top of ours.

[Peony]

We still buy whole milk but only because that is DH will drink. My kids do not drink milk that often though, it is really only used in cereal for them sometimes. 

[JudiAU]

I would probably look at her height to weight ratio. If she is lean or average for her weight I would probably keep her on whole for another 6 months and then reevaluate. I would also think about her diet as a whole.

If it is relevant to your decision-making, toddler breastmilk is even higher in fat than infant breastmilk.

[dollyanna]

Yeah, they tell you to switch around age 2 - I think because 1) that's the age when having a high-fat diet becomes less important to brain development & 2) so many kids are overweight now.  But if your kid is a healthy weight I don't think it much matters at this age.  Around here my husband drinks whole milk & I keep 2% around for me, so our daughter just gets whatever is available.

[Blessed_Mom]

Originally Posted by JudiAU 

I would probably look at her height to weight ratio. If she is lean or average for her weight I would probably keep her on whole for another 6 months and then reevaluate. I would also think about her diet as a whole.

If it is relevant to your decision-making, toddler breastmilk is even higher in fat than infant breastmilk.

Is that really true though? My milk has turned rather watery since my LO turned a year. It was thicker and creamier before (and white not translucent).
 

[Smidge]

Our entire family drinks whole milk.  However, it's local, with cream on top and all that yummy stuff.  It rocks our socks off