How many bottles for 9 month baby?

[Moorhen]

Just had Ds's 7-9 month check, mentioned that I'd stopped bf last month to go back to work and he's now on 3 7ozs bottles a day.

HV said should be only two bottles and to drop the lunch one and up his solids.

Is this right? Am sure I read somewhere that he needs 20zs a day until one year old.

[fiodyl]

it depends if he is eating 3 good meals a day if he is then i dont see a problem.If not try giving the solids first and topping up with milk after.
I think 2 botles a day is fine as things like porridge, yoghurts and cheese all count towards the 20oz a day

[carrieon]

I've read the 20oz thing too. At 9m dd had milk on her cereal and some in a doidy cup with breakfast, water with lunch, then a 7oz bottle at about 2:30 after her nap, and 8oz at bed time. She's 12m now and still has that amount as she won't drink milk from a beaker and as she necks her milk there isn't the issue of chewing on a bottle for ages which kills their teeth. Hope that helps.

[Seona1973]

at 9 months ds had just dropped to 3 bottles and then dropped to 2 milk feeds around 10 1/2 months. There is no real rush to drop them and I would say that if your lo still wants the 3 then what is the harm in giving them. I did start offering the daytime milk in a lidded beaker around this age and ds was off bottles by 10 1/2 months. If you wanted you could start offering the lunch feed in a beaker rather than a bottle and use that as a way of getting him used to taking milk from a cup.