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Weaning a toddler.

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It's time to wean my healthy 1 year old baby, who's been breastfed on demand, was night-weaned around 9 months, and eats food well. Complication: I'm not sure what substance to bottle feed, and I feel sad/weird about weaning. Help? Many people seem to wean their babies around 1 year and then offer a few bottles of cow's milk a day.

I can't really explain why, but I find the idea of huge volumes of cow's milk kind of distasteful. We love dairy foods, but I would never drink milk in large quantities; I have a vague handwavey feeling that it's packed with weird industrial growth hormones. Soy also feels *waves hands* estrogen-y. Formula feels "nutritious" to me, but it seems formula is usually also weaned at around age 1?

On top of these absolutely unscientific feelings, I also feel emotional about weaning. I've loved nursing Baby and don't actually WANT to wean. But I'm trying to get pregnant again asap, and my first pregnancy was utterly draining, so I want to conserve resources for Fetus.

I'd also like to help Baby learn to fall asleep alone at night and naps- currently he must be held/nursed to sleep, so switching to bottles seems like a good time to do that as well.

Can anyone help me think more clearly about my options here? Thanks.

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