DS is 14mo. Somedays he won't eat much breakfast, other days he'll have a weetabix, or toast or ready brek and fruit. He doesn't always finish lunch, but will have a yogurt for pud, and doesn't always finish tea, but will have fruit & custard after. He's never had a huge appetite, but I'm wondering if I need to cut down on his milk to encourage him to eat more food?

He generally has 8oz at bedtime, never been a great sleeper, so sometimes still wakes for a feed, if he wakes at night, we give 4oz in 6oz water, but if he wakes after 5am then he has 6oz. So then if he doesn't eat much breakfast, he wants milk 10ish and might have 6oz. The same if he doesn't have much lunch, then he might want milk 2.30ish.

Should i not be offering milk in the day now to try and get him eating more, or is this still ok at 14mo?
TIA.

Some days I have 2 weetabix for breakfast, some days I don't have anything. Somedays I have a sandeich for lunch, some days a proper 'dinner'.... See what I mean? I think we all have hungry days and not hungry days! DD went through a patch where she hardly ate anything for about a week to the point where I said I would do a food diary to see what she did eat and then think about what I might need to do about it. That day and the next I filled a page with what she ate!!

Is it formula he's having? I've never used it but isn't it pretty heavy and filling? Does he have cows milk? Perhaps for the 10 and 2 feeds switch to cows? Then see how he gets on.

i think the guidelines may have changed now but it used to be that children age 1-2 should have a pint of milk a day,which is about the amount hes having if ive added up right.i think its fine to be having that much milk still personally,he is eating ok by the sound of it,and if his weight and everything are ok then he is bviously getting what he needs.

i have the opposite problem in that my 14 month old dd wont drink any milk atall,but eats plenty of food.that is more of a problem though because they need milk for the calcium etc.

My 14mth old is as random as yours. To be fair the days we are busiest ANC he has less milk and more dinner he sleeps through BUT I breastfeed so feed when he wants. Some days its 6-7 feeds some days 2
reckon by 18 mths they are more definite at least my other two were

ANC = and

thanks all. he has formula at night, I tend to give normal milk in the day, or a weaker mix of formula. i'll switch to normal milk and see if things improve. good to know this sounds ok though, thanks, I'll stop worrying about it and let him tell me what he wants.

I just seem to end up throwing out more food than he eats though!

Don't forget he is still very small. Isn't one's tummy the same size as one's fist or something? So it will be very tiny amounts that he's eating (apart from that odd time where they just keep going and going and you think you're going to run out of food in the entire house!!)