How much formula for 10.5 month baby?

[Rachel2796]

I was just wondering how much formula I should be giving my baby as he is nearing 12 months.

This is what I currently do:
7am - 7oz bottle
11am - 5oz bottle
3pm - 5oz bottle
6.30-7pm - 6oz bottle

I use C&G Follow-On formula during the day and the Good Night milk at 7pm.

He doesn't always finish his bottles which makes me think I can cut one out - possibly the 11am?

He has learned to drink from a beaker this week (yay!) and so I am now giving him very diluted apple juice. He seems to drink quite a lot (whole beaker in a day) but this could be a) because its new and b) because it tastes nice!

Do you think I am giving him too much milk?

Also should I be giving him the milk in a beaker rather than a bottle? None of my friends do this.....

Advice please

at 10.5 months ds had just cut down to 2 milk feeds per day - 1 before breakfast and 1 before bed. He gave up his mid morning feed around 9 months and his mid afternoon one at 10.5 months. They got replaced with a snack and a drink of water. I did offer milk in the cup with ds from around 9 months but I only did it one feed at a time e.g. offered the mid morning one in a cup and the rest in a bottle. Only once he was ok with that one did I move another milk feed to the cup. He was off bottles by 11 months.

Up to 12 months the recommended minimum is 20oz but not all of that needs to be in drink form as milk in cereal, in foods and other forms of dairy count too. From 1 year the recommended minimum drops to 350mls (approx 12oz) and agin not all needs to be in drink form.

He also eats cereal/ yoghurt / cheese