Please come and reassure me that 21 month old dd will be fine if I drop her final formula feed.

[suiledonn]

Hi, just looking for some reassurance. DD is 21 months old and still drinks one bottle of formula at bedtime (around 6-7ozs) She has a very small appetite and although she eats a variety of foods she eats very small amounts particarly of meat/fish. She can't eat eggs due to an allergy and hates cheese. She has cows milk on cereal and will drink it sometimes but not others. I realise she is quite old to be still having formula and I would like to stop completely but I worry if her food intake can besufficient to give her all the nutrition she needs.

Well I also have a 21 month old dd3 and she still has a small sippy cup of milk while she is having her story before bed - I know mine eats a good and varied diet, in fact I gave up formula when she was 11 molnths!

will she have cow's milk before bed?

If I give her cows milk at bedtime she will only drink about 2ozs so I don't think it would be enough to get her through the night.

For example what she ate today

Breakfast: One bite of homemade multigrain bread, 2 bites of a banana and a small cup of milk. Refusing cereal of any kind at the moment.
Snack - yoghurt - about 3 teaspoons
Lunch - about 5 teaspoons of vegetable soup.
Snack- a pear, a rice cake
Dinner - one small baked potato of which she ate about 4 teaspoons, broccoli & cauliflower - she likes these so she ate a few florets of each, about 3 bites of roast parsnip and 3 bites of roast chicken.
Some tinned peach slices in own juice

Does this seem like enough?

if she is happy and thriving yes it is enough! perhaps if you drop the bottle she will get more hungry?

She is very happy and has loads of energy. She was quite ill before Christmas and was in hospital and her appetite has improved a bit since then.
Is it possible though that 1 bottle of formula at 7.30 at night could affect the appetite overall? This is what I keep wondering because I would love her to eat more and not need the formula but I worry that her appetite will not improve without it and she will be missing out.

try it for a week and see how it goes

suiledonn your dd will be fine. Just give cows milk in a cup instead. Not having the formula at night will probably increase her appetite anyway.