Babies/children and Milk Don't Mix

We have been asked many times about when we switched our daughter to regular milk from the nursing milk. The answer for us was simple we have never given her regular milk. Yes, I know there are commercials all the time about the qualities of milk and how beneficial it is. Who doesn't know the saying "got milk"? The reality is that the human body was not made to digest milk.

Humans are the only creatures on the planet who continue to give their children milk after they are past nursing. Why do we do this? Because like so many things, we are told that we should do it. How crazy is that? There is even a term for many people, "lactose intolerant". The rest of us, have just buried that response because we have always had milk in our diet.

When we found this out, as adults my husband and I took milk out of our own diets. (I admit I still have an issue with cheese!) Seriously though, we switched to Rice milk or Almond milk (depending on what we could find at the store). When we did this we found that we no longer had as much mucus and that when we do have milk products we have developed "lactose intolerance". Again, I ask is this because we just developed this at the age of 31/32? Or was it that once our bodies were getting what they were supposed to have that we were able to notice the fact that our bodies didn't want it?

The next question usually is if we didn't give her milk what did we give her? Well as I have said before I pumped even after she was done nursing. I did this until we felt comfortable that she was getting enough nutrients from the foods she was eating that she would be OK without the breast milk. She made the transition without losing any weight even with her growth spurts.