I just recently weaned Yona from her bottle so she’ll improve her eating habits. It was okay then, but when she turned four she was still drinking 5-8 bottles of milk everyday instead of eating 3 full meals, which isn’t good.

Now my problem is how to put more calcium on her diet when she doesn’t like to drink milk on a glass. Her pedia insisted that she still needs to drink milk at night. But how? She wouldn’t even try to sip!

According to Vincent Iannelli, M.D., contributor to About.com Pediatrics, a child’s Calcium needs are dictated by their age (See Resource Section for a link to this article). Kids aged 1 – 3 years require 500 mg of Calcium daily. Children 4 – 8 years need 800 mg of Calcium daily. Ages 9 – 18 require 1300 mg of Calcium daily.

My solution for the mean time is provide her high in calcium foods such as cheese, yogurt, graham crackers and orange juice fortified with calcium just so she gets the required calcium intake every day.

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