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!

[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

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

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

[cometprancerdancer]

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

[cometprancerdancer]

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

[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!?

[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]

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 .

[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