Less milk in bottles?

[PrettiestInPink]

DS is 6 1/2 months old and is now on 3 meals a day. He still has 4 bottles ATM (5-7am, 11am, 3-3.30pm, bed-time)

I find that he is drinking a lot less (used to be 210ml, now 150-180ml). Is that normal considering he is on solids now?

Sometimes if I persist (give him a nappy change, good break inbetween his bottle) he will continue to drink more, but it just means that bottle feeding is taking a lot longer than it used to!

[PrettiestInPink]

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[TripleTime]

Sounds normal to me. Though we've been sitting at 180ml's for months.

It does get to the point where food out weighs milk.

General rule of thumb is 100ml x weight divided by bottles per day.

[AvasMummy09]

That sounds perfect to me. I started formula at 5.5 months with my daughter and she was having 4 x 210 mls. Once I introduced solids at 6.5 months, she dropped back to 3 x 150 mls and 1x 180 mls. Now at 9 months she is having 3 x 180 mls.

[PrettiestInPink]

Thanks guys! So if 8kg and 4 bottles, then 200ml, so sounds about right.
Ava, that sound a little like my boy as he usually finishes his night bottle, but not the other 3 bottles.
Which bottle did she drop at around 9 months?

[TripleTime]

J has 5 200ml bottles per day & weighs 7.8kg.

We're yet to drop anything other than the 2am feed.

[PrettiestInPink]

2am feed? Cheeky little monkeys!

[TripleTime]

They are! Dropped the 2am about 3 months ago but still have everything else. No sleeping through here yet.

[PrettiestInPink]

Sorry, I thought you meant you havent dropped the 2am feed yet. For some reason DS has refused his 11am bottle two days in a row! See how he goes.

[AvasMummy09]

PrettiestinPink, we dropped our 5 am bottle first, she has her last bottle at 5.45 pm (in bed by 6 pm) and she would always wake at 5 am for a bottle then we would sleep until 5.45. I only dropped it because Ava wanted to. The CHN said she had to drop back to 3 at 7 months, but I wasn't keen on cutting her back so I waited until she was ready. One morning she woke up at 5 am , so as usual I made a bottle, but she just refused it. I made it the next morning too and she did it again. The following morning, I put her straight into my bed, and she went back to sleep until 5.45. So I have never made it again.

[mum2bubba]

Pretty normal. I think my girls did this, my son never had any more than 180 mils in his bottles and still does now. He has 4 bottles a day and 3 meals. He's 8 months old. Not sure when he will have less in his bottles or start cutting bottles out.