7mnth old still has one feed during the night, will cutting daytime feeds increase night feeds?

[sunshine17]

My LO generally has a feed at 10.30ish and 3ish. From then on she doesn't seem that bothered my having any milk during the day.

I offer her a bottle in the morning when we wake, again at 11am, 3pm & bedtime 7pm. She generally only has a couple of ounces if at all, except for 7pm when she'll have a bit more.

She eats 3 meals a days and I wanted to start cutting out some of the daytime bottles but will this increase the night feeds? confused.

Aim to increase her meal sizes and decrease bottles during the day.
She should have roughly 3 bottles (1 x large one on waking 1x mid morning OR afternoon small one 1x large one for bed) and three reasonable meals and puddings/finger foods.

You can go cold turkey with the night ones or cut it down each night then offer water!!

If you do this her appetite for food and bottles in waking hours should increase.

good luck

I would start by reducing the night bottles before starting on the day ones or you run the risk of her wanting even more in the night. I would start cutting the 3am feed by an ounce every few days until it gets to the stage that you can drop it completely. The next one I would aim to get rid of would be the 10.30pm one which would leave the 4 day bottles. My ds dropped to 4 bottles at 8 months when he stopped his night feed (with a little encouragement). He dropped to 3 bottles by 9 months and 2 at around 10 1/2 months.