How to drop milk feed?

[SarahCaroline]

Just starting to drop DD's late-morning milk feed. Should I alternate milk & food so that she kind of decides how much she wants of each (she's a bit erratic on amounts anyway so not sure this would help me cut the milk), or just give her a little less milk before her solids each day?

Just trying to think about how I handled this. I think that over a week or maybe two I just reduced the quantity dd would get in this bottle. She was only taking about 4oz anyway - but I went down to 3 oz for a couple of days, then 2, then 1 and then just nothing. Didn't seem to phase her at all. Personally, I didn't do the whole food and milk phasing thing - like you - I had enough of a job trying to get dd to eat lunch in the first place...so my motivation for dropping the mid-morning feed was in the hope that she'd then be more hungry at lunchtime.

Have to say, there wasn't an immediate pick-up in the quantities she ate for lunch....but she certainly didn't miss the milk!

if shes eating anough for breakfast just do the straight change from formula to milk or water we never had this problem as soon as ds was haveing breakfast he never looked for his milk and trust me the eratic eating is perfectly normal she will be like this for a while yet mines twn months and is still like it its just they get hungry days and not so hungry days like us hth