No bedtime milk for 6mo?

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Does anyone have a DC who doesn't drink milk near bed time?

DD is 6mo and has never really fed to sleep anyway, she would get gas and get really worked up,but I've had quite a few people say she should have something more before sleep.

So it's made me worried I'm doing something wrong, newly weaning if that makes a difference

At the moment she has
7oz at 6am,
porridge at 7am
7oz at 9am
7oz at 12pm
Finger food of veg etc 1pm
3:30pm 7oz
5:30/6:00pm food purée mixed with fresh veg
In bed asleep at 7 through to 5:45 the next morning

She did used to have an extra bottle but naturally dropped it when we started weaning.
For example this evening her last bottle was at 3pm, so I offered her another just before her food and she had 1 oz and wasn't interested in the rest

I don't have any family near by so struggle working out if I'm doing the right things for her

TIA

Seems absolutely fine to me. I read that once weaning begins they should roughly have between 500 and 600ml of milk a day. Yours is having around 800 ml and 3 meals so I'd say you've got it pretty spot on with the amount you're offering. The fact that she's sleeping through the night also suggests she's neither hungry or overly full when it's bedtime.

Mine is 7 months old and we roughly follow a similar pattern to you. He sometimes had last feed at 7pm, sometimes has tea at 5pm and misses that bottle and sometimes wakes at 11pm for a bottle

Sounds fine! She’s getting enough milk in (judging by numbers and that she is sleeping so well) and that’s what counts. All I would suggest is make sure you offer water before bed (otherwise 14 hours without any fluids is quite a long time). But if she isn’t taking it and it isn’t bothering her then it’s all good :)

Thanks for your quick response Tiptopj , it's good to know I'm not on my own

I just find on the odd occasion she doesn't sleep through people jump on the feeding as a reason and that I should offer more milk.

She's always been very clear with what she does/doesn't want and slept through since 4 months so I'm happy to let her do her thing, but can't help but doubt myself

Yeah good point about the water, I'll make sure we offer it just after her food

Sounds like she's fine - if she was hungry she'd wake during the night. If you are really bothered then maybe you could drop the 12 o'clock bottle and do lunch earlier then maybe she'll take another bottle at bedtime. But I'd not mess with a routine that's working!

I don't know but nothing but a bit of purée for 14hrs doesn't sound great. Food before 1 is fun and won't be getting any calories really.
But if her weight is fine and she's having plenty of wet/dirty nappies probably not too much of a worry.

Food before 1 isn't just fun, it provides necessary nutrition.

She's always been on the 25th percentile, she did start to drop when she was on milk so I started weaning slightly early, around 5.5months.
This was because she had also started to become mobile and I was concerned about a bigger drop, I think she just burns a lot of it off, she's always been a wiggler

I'm not sure how I could get her to take more milk in the evening, we have tried offering before food and after food, where she just takes an oz and plays with the bottle.
After a bath she sometimes would have more but then she would be hyped up for an hour or two after so would be going to bed later and with the same sort of gap between milks anyway