4 bottles still at 8 months - too much?

[hollie84]

As the title really - DS2 is almost 8 months and has 4 bottles of about 6oz a day. Is this too much? Someone expressed some surprise today that he's having milk in the day still at all, and HV has told me I can drop a bottle.

a minimum of 20oz is recommended from 6m to 1y so 24oz sounds fine. My ds dropped to 4 bottles at 8m and was down to 3 at 9 months. If he is happy as it is then I would leave it to him to let you know when to drop another feed

He's a pretty large baby and loves his food/milk so not sure he will willingly drop anything

My ds is having about the same - 4 x 7 oz bottles, but he doesn't completely finish them all. I've just started to be in a position to measure the amount as just gone from mixed feeding to ff. I was a bit surprised it was so much so good to know the guideline.

Sounds fine to me. I stopped the dream feed around then which would have been the fourth feed. DD is 2 and still has 2 bottles! So long as your DC is eating well I wouldn't worry

My twins are 8 months and still have seven bottles a day.

I wouldn't have brought there are many 8-mth olds having no bottles during the day! At that age my son was still bf approx every 4hrs. Milk should constitute the main source of nutrition until at least 12mths, and I don't really see how that could happen if they weren't having at least 3 bottles a day.

"Someone expressed some surprise today that he's having milk in the day still at all"
Does that person have an 8 month old? Probably not. You'll be quite surprised at how much you have forgotten in even a years time. Someone will ask you about when you stopped bfing/removed dummy/stopped mincing food and you will rack your brains !

It was a childminder who currently looks after under 2s and whose youngest child is younger than my oldest, so not someone looking years back!

I tried cutting an oz off each bottle and he just woke in the night and wouldn't settle without a bottle - might be coincidence but I think I will stick with the day time bottles!