How to reduce DDs formula intake?

[IamScarfaceClaw]

Just looking for some ideas/reassurance I think,
DD will be one in a few weeks, she was drinking around 30oz of formula a day until the health visitors 9m visit, when we were advised to make up larger bottles (7oz) in a bid to get her drinking less bottles and therefore less milk. However- she just happily drinks the milk and is now on 5 7oz bottles a day plus 3 meals and snacks!
I'm not sure if it is too much? She seems quite attached to her bottles and I know we need to get her off them once she is one!
For example, today she has had:
7am- 7 oz formula
8.30am- 1.5 boiled eggs and 2 fingers of toast
11.30am- 7oz formula
12.30- porridge
2pm- 7oz formula
4pm- 7oz formula plus snacks totalling- half a banana, a sausage, half a crumpet, a handful of apricots.
She drinks water and chamomile tea throughout the day- and she hasn't yet had dinner or her bedtime bottle.

I'm struggling to figure out how I can reduce the milk as she seems to have plenty of food!

[MrsJayy]

I would keep her bed bottle as last to go it is a comfort for her my dds still had theirs till 18ish months

[IamScarfaceClaw]

I think she coped pretty well, I intend to continue chipping away at it (and will be instructing my DMum and MIL to give minimal bottles as well)

Then we will have the feed to sleep issue to deal with! Now that I am dreading....I'm sure I will be back asking for further advice on that one .

[Artandco]

It will take a few days for her body to adjust to 20oz instead of 35oz or more a day. Then she should begin to recognise hunger if fulfilled by food

[IamScarfaceClaw]

So today went on, 4 bottles rather than five, but 5oz bottles rather than 7oz.

She ate quite a lot of solid food and drank quite a lot of water/ chamomile tea and cows milk offered.....but we had quite a few moments where she didn't really want her solids and would have preferred a bottle. I'm sure she leaves room (when eating solids) for her milk!?

[cometprancerdancer]

And we put her on cows milk at 1 too sorry for extra posts

[cometprancerdancer]

Obviously she can drink as much water or baby juice through day in sippy cup

[cometprancerdancer]

We had this with my dd. I still kept breakfast bottle and bedtime bottle but no other bottles allowed. Therefore she started to eat more and forgot about the bottles.
So at 6am she has a bottle of milk then possibly 7.30 boiled eggs/scrambled eggs and toast.
Lunch is a sandwich/pasta/veg bake/jacket pot. Then a yogurt/chopped fruit. No bottle here - offer water or baby juice.
Then tea time she will have whatever we have. And a bedtime bottle.
Snacks inbetween I allow rice cakes/raisins/maybe a baby biscuit or muffin.

Hth

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

I'd just drop the daytime bottles and offer less in a cup.

[dementedpixie]

You can take up chilled bottles of formula in a cool bag and they're ok for 4 hours. Or take hot water and add powder. Or take a ready made carton and a bottle

[MrsJayy]

In my baby days you had made up bottles I had an insulated carrier thingy now its just dry formula seperate and water in the bottle (i think)

[ElphabaTheGreen]

Formula is even more dicey to take out and about, surely?

But yes, no need whatsoever to take milk out. Water in a child-friendly pop-top type bottle and that's all.

[MrsJayy]

You don't need to take milk out and about once she is off formula water or milk from a cafe would do

[MrsJayy]

Have you tried weaning onto cows milk yet ? I would introduce a sippy cup of water/milk at lunchtime see how she goes

[Millymollymanatee]

Your child should begin moving off the bottle and on to a free-flow feeder cup at six months. Try to get them off bottles completely by the age of one, because the teats and spouts encourage children to suck for long periods of time, meaning the drinks that cause tooth decay stay in contact with your child's teeth for a long time.

Taken from the NHS Website:

[Artandco]

IAm - I wouldn't take milk out for toddlers. Just water. They won't be getting enough water if too much milk. Milk just morning and evening at home.

[dementedpixie]

At that age my two never had daytime milk so didn't need to keep it cool when out and about. Water was sufficient when out and then they had milk with breakfast and before bed.

[Mrscog]

At this time of year cows milk is fine out and about for a few hours, especially if you have something insulated to pop it in. In the summer I just used to bung a small ice pack in too.

But from 12 months I generally offered food snacks rather than milk out and about.

[IamScarfaceClaw]

How do you keep cows milk cool if you are out and about? (That seems to be a common reason to stick with formula?)
My initial thought was only water when not at home?

[ElphabaTheGreen]

But why formula student? Surely cow's milk is cheaper? Formula isn't needed from 12mo onwards.

[studentvera]

My 13 month old sounds just like your op. I wouldn't worry at all. My lg has 4 bottles of 7 ounce a day of formula and 3 meals. She's happy I'm happy!

[GoofyTheHero]

Good luck!

[IamScarfaceClaw]

Thank you all for your responses. We will work on reducing her milk and then work on stopping feed-to-sleep in a week or two- I would rather have a full baby kicking off because she can't have her bedtime bottle than one that is not quite full enough as her routine has been changed!

[Artandco]

I breastfed still at 1 year, but only twice a day and didn't feed to sleep ever even as newborn

[GoofyTheHero]

*and have been on cups of cows milk since 12 months, I meant to say

[GoofyTheHero]

Not that I'm saying bottles of formula is wrong at all, just that my experience is very different to yours!