6 months 3 weeks ideas on reducing formula?

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just been to the hv this morning and my ds is a little on the chubby side. the hv thinks im feeding him too much milk but when i asked her how much to reduce it by she wasnt helpful. hes on 5 bottles of 240ml formula a day which he happily consumes. hes having about a tablespoon of solids 3x a day and water too. any tips on how to drop out a full feed without making him hungry?

How are you fitting the milk around solids?

I'd personally say that sounds like a lot of milk for a baby on solids.

If your DC is taking solids well I'd just increase that and reduce the milk.

With my two I'd feed as much solids as they'd take, then give a 'snack' milk of about 100ml-150ml inbetween meals. Then a big bottle at bed time.

He won't start to increase his food unless you reduce the milk first.

Perhaps when he's moved to mostly solids his weight will settle down.

Are you.giving him his solids first, then milk /. That will.let him addredd his hu.get with solids first, rather than filling up.on.milk.. my two ff babies gradually dropped milk and increased solids from about 7 months. They both slimmed down when they started crawling and cruising too

At 6+ months baby should be having at least 500ml of formula to get the recommended amount of vitamins.

I think the suggested amount is usually 500-600ml, obviously your baby is getting way more than that so you could reduce quite a bit and still be getting the recommended amount.