I am a bit confused about what I should be doing with regard milk and
bottles with my just turned 17 month old little girl. She really loves her milk bottles and takes about 125 mls when she wakes up. She then will have a later breakfast about 1-2 hours later but will take, for example, a whole weetabix with milk. She nibbles at lunch (doesn't really eat a lot at all for lunch) but then has a bottle of milk about an hour after lunch (about 200 mls) before her nap.
She eats a really good dinner and then has a bottle of milk before bed (about another 200 mls) Is this too much milk? I read that about 500mls was about the right amount for a toddler but I keep hearing conflicting advice. She is a happy girl and I think gaining good weight going by her clothes sizes etc. although she is little but so am I. Also is it bad that she is still having a bottle at her age? She will drink water or milk from a beaker but not as much. She has never had a dummy and is only just starting to get her first tooth come through so the problems associated with prolonged bottle taking has never worried me to much until now. She also has a bit of breastmilk too before bed (because it helps settle her) but not a lot, mainly for comfort I think and she sleeps through the night 12 hours or so. Any advice please, should I be weaning off the bottles and cutting down on the milk? (she doesn't always take 500mls per day, this is prob the maximum amount she takes, some days less) My concern is that she will get dehydrated if I stop the bottles because she takes very little with the beaker.