Should I bring back her mid morning feed?

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Please help me to decide if I should bring back my DD's mid morning bottle.

She is 11 months old and was having 4 milk feeds a day but about a week ago we decided to drop the mid morning one.

For the past few days or so she's seemed more unsettled every afternoon. Could it be that's she's missing it?

I found it pretty hard to know in the first place when to drop a feed. People kept saying "you'll just know", but I didn't really.

She has 3 solid meals a day with snacks in between. I've never been too sure about portion size but feel pretty comfortable that she's taking what she needs as when she's had enough she either pushes the food/spoon away or continually throws the food on the floor.

But wondering if I should bring back the mid morning bottle tomorrow to see if that makes a difference to how she is in the afternoon? Or is that a backward step?

What do you think?

Instead of a bottle, could you try her with a sippy cup with milk and a snack? Once she's 12 months it's recommended to ditch the bottles and the formula and to give them at least 300ml of full fat cows milk per day, but this can include milk in foods such as fish pie, milky jelly, cauliflower cheese and rice pudding.

We're in a similar situation, I've just dropped the mid morning feed (also 11 months) and it seems like a long time between milk feeds! Yesterday I gave her a couple of oz of cows milk in a sippy cup and a satsuma at the time she would normally have had her milk and this seemed to tide her over. I know they're not supposed to have cows milk as their main drink til a year but I thought a couple of oz would get her used to the taste and to drinking milk out of a cup rather than a bottle.