My 7 month old won't take his milk....

[Blueberry87]

I'm not sure if I am in the right place for this thread but it's worth a shot. I have a 7 month old little boy who started wearing when he was 4.5 months old.

Since the start of the week he has not been having much of his milk and has stopped sleeping as well as he used to.

He was having a breakfast and lunch and sometimes a small dinner but having 5oz bottles between them and a 6oz bottle before bed and sleeping until 5am. Now he is having breakfast lunch and dinner and 1-2oz if that between his small meals and before bed and is now waking more often in the night.

I know he won't starve himself so I'm not worried about that, I'm just worried he is going to stop having milk altogether and I'm pretty sure he needs it.

Has anyone else been through this or something similar with their little one, should I be worried or just let it play out and give him what he wants?

Any advise would be appreciated

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I was just about to write a thread with exactly the same content! My DS is also 7mo and has also been weaning from 24 weeks. The last week he hasn't wanted milk and has been waking up 2-3 times through the night. When he wakes in the night I give him milk and he will drink the 6oz bottles but when offered them during the day he just doesn't want them.
Since 3:30am and now he was had 16oz. Surely the 3 meals a day is not enough to fill them up that much? I am worrying as I know he needs the milk.

Hopefully someone can come and help us both!

Youvegotafriendinme I have the exact same issue 🤷🏼‍♀️ My little one doesn't take that much but he will take 5 or 6oz in the night, fingers crossed someone can help! 🤞🏼

Don't know if I replied properly!

Hopefully someone will be along with better insight than me but didn't want to read and run.

Have you tried reducing the portion sizes slightly? It might then prompt them to take an extra milk feed.

DS went off his milk for a while and I reduced the amount of solids I was giving him. Not massively, but enough for him to still be peckish. He would then take a milk feed a bit later on.

Alternatively if they are healthy, hydrated and have enough weight on them it's not the end of the world. Perhaps some vitamin supplements? To make up for the vitamins they would be missing from the milk.

I will try this, thank you x

Have you tried giving milk before food? Or changing the times of milk.
My 8 month old does
6oz at 7am,
Breakfast 8am
6oz at 11.30am
Lunch at 12.30pm
Tea at 5pm
6oz at 7pm
As there's at least an hour between them he seems to take the milk fine.
I always do milk before food tho (except tea time)
Also they only need 17oz or more at this age, so if I don't get enough milk in him in bottles then I make porridge with a few oz of milk and mix lots of cheese or cheese spread in his savoury meals, plus yogurts for deserts so he's getting calcium.

Also might not be to your liking, but I buy the Heinz savoury powdered food as you can mix about 3oz of formula into that for lunch and tea on the days he wouldn't drink milk. So by putting 3oz of formula in his breakfast, lunch and tea then I would get 9oz in him without even trying! This left 8oz to get into him in his bottles throughout the day which was much easier.

Have u tried giving water through the night?

I would also say try giving him at least some of his milk before his food, when he will be hungriest.

Since the start of weaning I have given milk then waited 1-1.5hr before giving food as my HV said the milks still the most important thing.

The last 2 days I've just waited for DS to 'let me know' when he is ready for a milk feed but when the gaps were exceeding 6-7 hours between feeds and he still wasn't hungry I offered him some milk and he would only take a couple of ounces.

I haven't tried giving water at night. Can I ask why I would?

@Blueberry87 how much are you getting in your LO in 24 hours?
Was he sleeping through before the last week?
My DS would go down at 7:30/8, wake at 11 but after popping dummy back in he would go straight back to sleep, then again at 4:30 for feed and back till 7ish.
Now it's bed at 7:30/8, up at 11 and won't go back till feed, up at 3 for feed then up for the day at 6:30. I've been decreasing the feed sizes over a period of a few days as suggested by my HV but so far that hasn't helped.

If your giving more milk at night then if he wakes try giving water instead. I thought you were concerned about the night wake ups for milk? A HV told me not to worry about milk intake as long as two bottles a day.. but I just wait the hourish after a bottle for food anyways.