Weening

[Carly46]

Hello new to all this my son is 8 months old I have 2 older children that are 16&13 so it’s been a while since I had a baby I was wondering how long do you sterilise their bottles for nowadays and also now he’s on solid food health visitor thinks I should stop another bottle he only has 3 a day as it is which one am I meant to cut out and is he gonna be getting enough nutrients and vitamins any advice welcome please

You need to keep sterilising bottles until the stop formula so at 1.

We did blw and I never really saw the HV - just do what you want with how many bottles.

When he is in less than 17oz of formula he will need vitamins.

3 sounds fine to me at that age. Mine dropped to 3 at 8 months and were on 2 by 10 months. I sterilised bottles/teats until 1 year as advised

Thanks very much just feel like a new mum again as there’s been such a big age gap and so much has changed in that time never no what to do for the best

3 bottles at 8 months is pretty normal, breakfast, afternoon, bedtime. I find that they tend to become a bit disinterested in the afternoon one around 10 months and start drinking less and that's when I replace it with water and a snack.

That's normal my son had that at 8 months plus 3 meals a day. We done baby led weaning as i can't stand the idea of purée and the sugar content. Baby led weaning the best thing i ever done