How much milk should he be having during weaning

[FEP]

Hi,

Wondered if anyone could offer any advice. I have recently started weaning my 5 month old baby boy. At a recent visit to the HV she suggested he should only be having 20oz of milk a day. He is currently having approx 42oz. He is a big boy and is on the 98th centile. After giving him his purees I have been subsituting his milk after with water to try to reduce his daily intake. It seems to be going well but I don't want to be reducing his milk too much if he still needs it. I have looked on a number of websites but they all seem to be offering different advice so any thoughts would be greatly received.

Thanks

[Seona1973]

the minimum is 20oz so it is perfectly ok to take more than this. I wouldnt even think about cutting his milk as he will start to cut down on his milk by himself as his appetite for solids increases. At this age ds had 5 bottles of around 7oz and went down to 4 bottles around 8 months when he gave up his night feed. At this stage weaning is about introducing new tastes and textures not about replacing milk feeds - give the same milk as before and offer solids either with the milk feeds or some time after the milk e.g. my routine was

7am - milk
8am - solids
11am - milk
12pm - solids
3pm - milk
5pm - solids
7.15pm - milk
in the night up to 8 months - milk

[Izzybel]

I was wondering this the other day. My DD is nearly 7 months and I give her about 28ozs of formula a day plus 3 meals. She sometimes leave a little bit of her milk though. I've been a bit concerned as she hasn't really put much weight on since about 20 weeks.

[FEP]

Thanks for your advice Seona1973. I've noticed already this week he is reducing how much milk he is taking from each bottle.

Thank you.