Hi

So alfie still gets 4 8oz bottles a day aswell as brekkie, dinner and tea. I always offer him his milk first as i know its the most important source of nutrition.

Just wondering at what point u drop a milk feed and give him desert aswell? Hes still drinking all his milk but i think im gonna start increasing his portion sizes of food a bit as hes been on the same size portion sizes for about a month now.

The HV had mentioned to me a few weeks ago that i shud drop the dinner time bottle first - but i think its the tea time bottle that he needs less.

I know ive asked this question before on another site but cant remember what people said!!

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i think the first thing you need to do is swap the bottles round for food. so food comes first.

he'll then fill up on food. which will then make it easier to drop a bottle. usually its the 3rd bottle (after lunch before dinner) thats easier to drop. he can have pudding when ever you feel like it.

I offered pudding when Rowan used to have his 3rd bottle then gradually moved pudding forward to have with his dinner.

If he eats of his food then offer him some more. he'll tell you when he's full

He doesnt get his first bottle till 9am usually as he loves his sleep and tends to sleep till about 8.30 so by the time ive got him up - changed his nappy etc. He then gets his dinner time bottle at 12.30 - then 4pm and his last bottle at 7.30.

I was thinking about trying this tomorrow:

9am - brekkie
9.30 - bottle
12.30 - dinner
1.00 - bottle
4.00 - tea
4.30 - bottle
7.30 - bottle

Do u think this sounds ok? The problem is cos he gets up late it means he gets a lot of food ina shorter period of time. But he doesnt and never has really slept during the day and if i get him up ealier he gets dead twisty.

What u think?

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I started weaning Thomas at about 4 1/2 months and spoke to my HV and she said basically she would recomend 4 bottles a day untill he is over six months when you can start giving cows milk in his diet in cereals/yoghurts/cheeses etc and also meat and fish so he is getting a really good balanced diet and can afford to drop a bottle. I introduced all these things after 6 months and had dropped him to 3 bottles just before 7 months. I then dropped another bottle at 10 months and he only had morning and bedtime bottles - he still has the same now

Hope this helps hun

xx

we just Tyler drop his bottles naturally. we just started increasing the amount of food he was having and we split the day up more so it wasn't bottle then food straight away.

So our day was

6.30 bottle
7.30 brekkie
10.30 bottle
12 lunch
2.30 bottle
4 tea
6.30 bottle

It wasn't very long until he droped the 2.30 bottle and then the 10.30 went shortly after that.

I would just stick with what you do now but either:
offer half the bottle then food then he can have whatever he wants afterwards
or
change your times around so food and bottle are more spaced out and then incraese the food portions and let Alfie drop his bottles naturally himself x

I dropped one of Alfie's bottles when he was 6 months whent my HV said i should think about dropping it and there was no way he'd do it himself naturally. What i did was offer a meal and pudding (equivallent to half a jar of each) instead of his pudding. I thought he'd maybe cry for his bottle after but he didn't at all.

At 8 and a half months i did the same and replaced his other bottle so now he's just on the two bottles at morning and night