Milk - How much and how often at 11 months?

[sparkysalmon]

Please tell me what your little ones eat and drink at around 11-12 months.

A family member allows their baby 120mls per feed and they eat a few pieces of bread, fruit and veg by hand (baby-led weaning) so spoon feeding is not allowed.
Baby sleeps only for an hour or so, twice a day, wakes frequently during the night when they get fed again.

Mother will offer feeds up to 10 times a day - and refuses to consider the formula packet directions approx (210 mls 4 times a day)

I think she likes to "feel needed", and to be attentive to the baby when they cry for feeding so frequently, and also, she thinks she is emulating baby-led feeding, like in the early days of breastfeeding.

The baby is getting a lot of milk, so definitely getting enough to eat, but I do worry about the disrupted sleep, and the reliance on milk over introducing real food.

Sounds within the range of normal to me.

My baby was still having 3-5 120ml bottles per 24h at that age, but is a good eater, and both fed herself and took from a spoon. The bottles were needed at night to help her sleep as she'd wake hungry if she'd not managed enough solids in the day. She didn't get any teeth til after 11 months so genuinely struggled with substantial quantities of solids. I was too lazy to regularly puree everything (not to mention that she was terrified of the food processor).

The formula guidance for 210ml bottles is kinda excessive: my daughter never took a bottle larger that 120ml and most breastfed babies will rarely drink more than 90ml at a time.

I agree that 10 bottles a day is excessive, but would be suprised if the baby actually finished that number!

The mother probably should be considering ramping down milk feeds, but honestly I don't see much cause for concern just yet, especially if the baby is going to nursery ar 12 months - they'll make sure the formula drops down appropriately and you can mind your own business...

My 15 week old took full bottles of formula when I returned to work, ok she was very tall etc but 120 seems very little in one go.

2 of mine had given up milk altogether by 11 months.

Thanks for your comments.
When the father takes care of the baby, he offers a larger quantity, and with a bedtime bottle of 180, which baby eagerly takes, baby sleeps through the night, but the mother was furious, and insists only 120ml ever in one go.