Bottle feeding at 20months

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My DS1 is 20 months and has a 8oz bottle at 7am on waking and again at 6.30pm as part of his bed time routine. He has always been bottle fed and he has no other milk drinks during the day. If he has it in a beaker he only managed to sip 2oz or so. Do I continue with the bottles? How long do I have to keep giving him milk for? What does anyone else do? Thanks

Morning,

My DS is 18 months and I give him about 7 oz of milk with is porridge and 7 oz in a bottle at bed time. I do give him a beaker of milk with whatever is remaing from the pint bottle to have during the day and he doesn't sometimes drink it, but he does eat a yogurt with his dinner and he has a bit of cheese on his toast in the morning and a block of chhese as a snack at some point during the day, so I reckon he is getting his pint of dairy during the day....

Sometimes (and this was recommended by my HV) I put a spoon of powdered milkshake in his beaker to make it a bit sweeter, that seems to go down better!

I don't know how long to keep giving them milk for, but I think it will be for quite a while yet, esp. while they are growing...

they need the equivalent of 350mls (about 12oz) of milk from 1 year but not all needs to be as a drink as milk in cereal, in foods, dairy products all count too. Why not start by offering the morning milk in a beaker along with breakfast and when your lo starts taking a bit more then swap the night bottle for a beaker too. My ds (now 16 months) was off bottles by 10 1/2 months by doing this. He uses an avent magic cup for his breakfast milk and a cow patterned cup for his bedtime milk (which he feeds to himself). I will keep offering milk till he seems to not want it any more. My dd didnt take milk for much longer than 1 1/2 - 2 years and now her intake is mostly made up from the ideas given above (she also likes yoghurt drinks e.g. muller vitality, munch bunch - I just stick a straw through the foil lid and she drinks it that way)