Refusing milk

My little girl has been having 2 bottles of milk a day, one in the morning & one before bed but for the past 4 days has been refusing both bottles, and is showing no interest in milk. Is this normal or should I be concerned? Google says they should be having milk until they’re two but she just won’t take it!

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How old is she? My little boy is 18 months now but when he was 8 months old till about a year he was so hard to feed milk too! he just really wasn’t interested. I think they say that is they’re having at least 21ozs of milk a day under the age of 1 that’s ok. She could be teething? x

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My baby is 19 months and he couldn’t care less about milk. He drinks half a glass of kefir in the morning and maybe half a glass of warm milk occasionally in the evening. There are other sources of calcium, iron and magnesium… cottage cheese or full fat plain yogurt. Our paediatrician said it’s totally normal.

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They don’t need milk, it’s just an easy way for them to consume calcium. If they like yoghurt and cheese then it’s not a problem

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If they're getting calcium from their diet then it's fine, my son dropped his last bottle at 14 months.

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My son goes through phases, some weeks he won't have any milk, others he'll have loads!

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My son gave up milk at 13 months he refuse it. He does have breast milk still tho. He's was combined feed from 7days old.

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