IS 9.5 MONTH OLD GETTING ENOUGH MILK???

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I breastfed my gorgeous Gracie for 6 months, then introduced some puree's. She has been such an angel since day one, and is now 9 and a half months old and pretty much eating normal meals. She was having 5 breastfeeds a day, but started to lose interest and bite me (She has 10 teeth already!!!!) She then started just having a morning and night feed when she was approaching 9 months. Then she got her first cold, and was struggling to feed from me-we tried nasal saline drops and everything, but because I panicked that she wasn't getting enough vitamins, I started to give her a doidy cup of formula in the morning. Since then, she has shown no interest at all about feeding from me, and I have now stopped feeding her myself, but she now won't take any ilk apart from the morning. She has a varied and good diet, and I don't feel worried about what she eats, but is it set in stone that they need to have more than 200ml milk each day-She sleeps through and is so so happy!!!

They need to have at least 500-600ml until a year and then at least 350ml per day. Milk added to food and other dairy also counts though so if she would be having a cup of milk in the morning, milk on cereals and a couple of yoghurts per day I reackon she should be fine. Otherwise, couldn't you offer milk instead of water to drink at mealtimes? If she won't take it though and weight gain is fine and she's getting plenty of dairy for calcium I probably wouldn't worry.