With my first if she had a 7oz bottle I made her breakfast with 4oz in her porridge. She ate her porridge then drank the 3oz after from her bottle.
She naturally dropped lunch on her own. So that was the first bottle to naturally go. So at lunch to start with I would give a fruit puree or a cow and gate fruit pot. Then give her her normal amount of milk in a bottle. What happened was she eventually would drink less and less of the bottle as she had more food at lunch.
So say if in a few weeks you give your baby a fruit puree for lunch or a vegetable one and you notice for a few days they drink 4oz of milk afterwards and leave 2oz. Then you can cut that bottle down to just making the 4oz. Then when lunch becomes enough of a meal you can stop offering that bottle and replace the milk with water. For example mine would of had baby food then a yoghurt. Or a banana and a yoghurt and water.
Hope this makes sense. Then the afternoon 3.00pm feed went next. Again I offered a snack with a bottle of milk and eventually she left some of the bottle so we gradually cut that down and gave her water with her snack.
Then repeat at teatime.
She kept her morning and bedtime feed the longest. She used to have 5 feeds in a day around 7oz before weaning.
I hope this makes sense xx
How many meals are you doing right now? I always started mine with breakfast. A week or 2 later I started them with a little dinner then a couple of weeks later I introduced tea.
So basically offer baby milk with all dinners and make meals with the baby milk. Gradually baby should cut down on certain bottles as they eat more and more.
There's alot of different views on weaning and when is best. Alot of people say milks the most important thing until a year. It definitely is but the more foods you introduce in those first six months the better.
Also babies can have things we wouldn't like. My son is 2 now. He often will have a chopped up banana, some grated cheese and a yoghurt for lunch. Or cucumber sticks and cheese for lunch. So you can try lots of different bubbly lunches as he gets older.
Around 8-9 months make it more lumpy.
By 11 months mine were eating small pieces of sausages with mash and vegetables. Roast dinners. Spaghetti Bolognese. Meatballs and spaghetti. Tuna pasta. Jacket potatos. Sandwiches.
Be careful with the salt but the occasional fish finger with some mash and vegetables or a small amount of beans is also ok around the year mark.
Really hope this helps. I remember feeling so confused by all this. You will probably find your son will keep his bedtime and morning milk the longest x