When did you drop to morning and evening feeds only?

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Weegle · 03/04/2007 16:30

Question in the title! Just wondering roughly when people drop from 3 bottles/feeds to two? DS is 10m, and doesn't seem to eat a great deal so wondered if I should drop/reduce his afternoon bottle.

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BizzyDint · 03/04/2007 16:39

dd's 10 months, some days she has 2, sometimes 3. i try to offer the third with a biscuity snack in the afternoon. so if she doesn't want it she's still got the snack.

pelvicflawed · 03/04/2007 20:25

I posted an almost identical thread on Sunday. DS is almost 11 mths and for the last week or so hasn't touched is afternoon bottle and I'm thinking of dropping it(though today he went and drank 5oz agggghhhh!) when he does drink the milk it tends to spoil his appetite for tea. The responses I got to my post indicated that around 10/11mths is quite a common time to drop the middle bottle. I think what I'll do to ensure he dosen't go short is change it to pm snack and perhpas offer him a small drink (not a feed ifyswim) of milk in a cup.

MuffinMclay · 03/04/2007 21:39

I dropped ds's afternoon bottle at about 9 months and offered him water instead. HV said 9-12 months was the norm for this.

hairymclary · 03/04/2007 21:43

ds was about 18 months when he dropped his. he was definitely still having 4 bottles a day when he was a year old.
remember, that at that age milk is the primary source of nutrition still and they should be having a pint at least

Original poster

Weegle · 04/04/2007 16:19

great, thanks everyone for your tips.

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ChocolateSucksWithoutSugar · 04/04/2007 16:24

dd was still having between 7 and 9 breastfeeds a day at 11 months. I cut her down over a period of about 4 weeks so that she was, quite amazingly, on just 2 by her first birthday. She eats much better now!

Pinchypants · 05/04/2007 12:14

My 8-month old DD has a full breastfeed when she wakes up and before bed, and is formula-fed during the day. Have just switched to Doidy cup rather than bottle on advice of health visitor who says that if she doesn't drink it, she doesn't need it. She usually has a couple of ounces at around 11 and then again at around 3, and eats three big meals a day. If she doesn't fancy her milk, that's fine, but I do make sure she is offered plenty of water during the day, and she has plenty of yoghurts and full fat milk/formula in her morning porridge too.

growingbagpuss · 05/04/2007 12:29

I was giving 3 feeds a day until about 10-11 months - ds gradually stopped taking the lunchtime one as he discovered food was much more interesting!

At 10 months I would seriously consider trying to intrduce a cup - as other people have mentionned - even if it is one they have to"suck" from - i didn't try doidy cups, but apparently they are fab.

abracadabra · 05/04/2007 13:22

DD aged 10 mths currently has four bfs a day but I will have to drop the mid morning and mid afternoon ones soon as I'm going back to work. Im a bit worried as I've heard some people say their milk dried up once they went to two feeds a day - has anyone had this experience? Also don't know whether she should have formula to replace the dropped bfs

growingbagpuss · 05/04/2007 19:25

Abracadabra - funny u should say that - my ds went onto 1 ff in midday, with bf morning and night at around 6 months - I found v quickly my bobs reduced size, and I felt there was less milk - and then one morning, ds looked at my boobs and shook his head - he had milk in a cup from then on!!! Perhaps the quality had dropped!!

MG72 · 07/04/2007 19:38

I went down to 2 bf a bit younger - about 7 months I think - on health visitor advice because my ds doesn't put on much weight - she thought his appetite for solids would increase if I dropped the daytime feeds. No problem with milk supply after that (luckily - and although unrelated, here I am nearly 2 weeks into a feeding strike and still dripping!)and after a week or so his appetite really did shoot up and he now eats like a horse, especially at breakfast and tea time.

WriggleJiggle · 08/04/2007 21:49

I reduced feeds at about 10 / 11 months. It just sort of felt the right time. It was a very slow reduction though - if we were in she would feed, if we were out she had a cup.

pawre · 11/04/2007 12:16

bizzydint, our LO is the same age (10 months). i remember reading somewhere we have about the same routine as well.

i'm wondering where to go from here. i want to stop bf at a year old.

are you going to replace the am/pm/afternoon bfs with formula in a sippy? how have others done it?

thanks!

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