If breastfeeding, how do you introduce whole cows milk at 1 year?

Just give him milk in his cup.

I wouldn't bother pumping and mixing it. It's going to be so different getting it from a cup instead of direct from you that he probably won't even think of it as the same sort of drink. Since your son is already drinking water from a cup there is absolutely no need to put the milk in a bottle. Don't make milk different. It's just another drink.

My daughter never managed a standard bottle - she went straight to a soft spout. I never mixed types of milk, and I never warmed it. (The smell of warm milk makes me want to heave, so I was keen not to :) ) She never particularly liked drinking milk, but that was just her.

But yes, if he's not going to be getting so much milk from breastfeeding then a significant amount of what he drinks needs to be milk - and if he doesn't want to drink it, then you need to get it into him another way. On cereal, in custard, yogurt, cheese, white sauce...

When I weaning my daughter, I just gave her regular cold cows milk in her sippy cup. She took it fine. In fact, I had to regulate it because she was drinking so much! It's good that he likes water so don't cut that out. Just mix things up...water, milk, juice, etc. He'll be fine. Just remember that whole milk will fill up his tummy so don't give it to him before meals or he likely wont eat as much.

I never mixed my breast milk with regular milk. I don't see the necessity in that. One problem I did have with my daughter, though, was a sensitive stomach. Eventually I switched her to soy milk because it was giving her diarrhea.

Additional: Numb2 - I have to completely disagree with you! I've always been told by doctors to NEVER start a baby on cows milk until they are at least 12 months old. Breastfeeding is by far the best choice for their health...just because a baby has teeth doesn't mean he's chomping down on you. You sound rather ignorant. It's obvious that you haven't breastfed before.

I just offered cows milk straight in a cup. (I didn't own a pump, so it would have been a big hassle to hand express enough milk to put in a cup.) She'd never had a bottle, so I offered it in a cup. (She'd been drinking juice and water from the cup for about 6 months already.) Offer a small amount at first, and gradually increase it.

As for temp ... whatever works. If he'll take it cold, great. (That's certainly easiest.) If not, you can warm it up.

I didn't give any of my kids milk until the two year mark, I have a "true" milk allergy and I know introducing it later would hopefully save them from it. But when they did get I just put it in a cup at dinner time. They never had whole milk, they went straight to 1%. They also started getting cheese and yogurt.

Some alternatives to dairy to get the calcium are leafy green, soy and other beans, sesame seeds, and bone in fish. I personally drink soy and/or almond milk, which my kids love. But they're both on dairy now and have had no issues. YAY! Almond/soy milk is expensive!

Yeah just start giving him cold milk out of a cup with his meals. Thats the best time to get them to drink as they need to wash down their food. He only needs about 2 or 3 cups of milk a day.

My kids never drank milk. I nursed my kids and put them on water. If they were not drinking enough I would put half juice and half water as the sweetness was a treat and they would drink it up fast (we don't usually drink juice, just water.. so juice is a treat).

If you really want to put him on milk, you can go for it. But he doesn't need it, so there is no such thing as 'making sure you get enough milk'. However, for a balanced diet your child should have some dairy... but that can be cottage cheese, eggs, yogurt, etc. Doesn't need to be milk.

give the whole cows milk, almond or rice milk w/out your milk in it. It will take about 3 days for your baby to completely get use to it but stick it =D Like you said, first do two feedings then all three...if you don't want to just do it cold turkey...

I would start whole milk already , I started at 9month with both children. I did not breastfeed they were formula babies . But when you switch there are these drops you can by that ad the vitamins a supplements to the whole milk that you would find in formula or breast milk , I forgot the name but its made by enfimil and its a purple box.

How can you still be breastfeeding? doesnt he have teeth now? oouch !