Just to give the background, my baby was happily on 5 x 7oz bottles of formula until she turned 6 months old. Then she caught a fever/cold/chest infection and lost her appetite which coincided with starting weaning. It took a while to build it back up but then she somehow managed to get a parasite in her gut which meant that she was popping 8-9 times a day (lovely!) so she started wanting to have 5 x 8oz bottles a day - I assume as literally everything she ate came straight out about an hour later!
She's now back to normal and is much better and much happier but her appetite for milk still seems to be through the roof! She always slept through quite happily but now if she doesn't have at least 37-40oz in total during the day, she wakes up hungry. I'm just a bit worried this is too much....
She is happily eating lots of food, we are predominantly doing BLW so it's difficult to judge how much she's actually swallowing but she's happily joining in with 3 x meals a day.
As an average this is our typical day;
7.45am - 8oz bottle
9.30am - breakfast - either weetabix/ crispy minis or a pot yogurt
11am - 8oz bottle
1pm - lunch - usually a pitta with humous or sandwich of some sort
2pm - 8oz bottle
4.30pm - 5oz bottle
5.30pm - dinner - whatever we are having eg pasta bake, meatballs etc
7pm - 8oz bottle and then bed.
I assumed that she would naturally be cutting back on her milk as she starts eating more but she's downing each bottle every time. I'm just worried that she's never having a chance to feel hungry as we seem to be constantly feeding, either milk or food!
How did you go about reducing milk and increasing solids? Should I be introducing more snacks?
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How much milk does your 7.5 month old have?
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Chocolatecakefan · 18/12/2015 20:02
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