How to drop a bottle

[mrsflux]

Ds is ff. He is a large 10mo boy who eats pretty well although still gags on lumps etc.
He's on 4 bottles in the day. Breakfast, mid morning, mud afternoon and bed. All are 6 oz apart from bed which is 8oz.
I think he's meant to be moving off the bottles of formula as ge gets closer to a year and I know hv wanted me to drop more when he was 6 mo but I think she's crap so I ignored her.
Should I drop one?
When?
How?

Help!

i kept the morning bottle and lunch bottle ad bed bottle until he was 1 then i just kept morning and night bottle until he was 18mths then we had milk in cup for morning and night until 2 then we had just milk at night rest was in his diet with cereal yogurt etc

the first bottle that went with dd and ds was the mid morning one. I replaced it with a snack and drink of water.

At 10 months ds was just on one bottle before bed, he also had milk in a beaker at breakfast and lunch time, as well as milk in cereal and yoghurts etc. Dropping a bottle was never really an issue for ds, he never seemed to mind. You could offer an extra snack, something small like rice cakes and grapes if you feel he needs more. I dropped the bedtime bottle at 14 months I was really dreading it but ds didn't even notice!

At nearly 10 months my Ds is still on 4 8oz bottles a day. I'm not planning on cutting it out. My HV toild me to, I told her politely that while my Ds still wanted 4 bottles he was going to get them.

He eats 3 large, healthy meals a day with snacks in between so I see nothing wrong with it.

I don't get what the big deal about cutting bottles out is? Surely the baby will drop it when he/she is ready? I think of it as whenever I want a drink of milk I go to the fridge and get one so why can't my Ds have milk when he wants it.
(The above is a genuine queary by the way, not a dig!)