Cold turkey on bottles....Is this enough food for a 1 year old?

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Hello,

My daughter has always been an awful sleeper, waking every 2 hours through the until she was about 10 months. At around 10 months things got better and she was waking up once in the night- having formula milk and then straight back to sleep. She has slept through maybe 3 times since she was born.

Last week she turned 1 so we transitioned her onto cows milk- no issues with swapping but now she has started waking twice at night again and drinking 7oz each time. Firstly, I think she is drinking way too much milk but I’m concerned she’s waking for genuine hunger. Does the below amount of food look normal (without the milk).... I’m considering going cold turkey with the bottle but I don’t want to starve her.

This is now what her eating/ drinking day looks like:

Breakfast 8.00 (at nursery): Porridge
Lunch 12:00: Normal meal e.g.: spaghetti / chicken dinner/ chilli/ fish pie etc. Followed by a banana.
Tea: Normal meal, similar to above. Followed by bread and butter.
Evening snack: Weetabix with cows milk/ yoghurt and fruit/ small soft cheese sandwich.
Evening bottle: 7oz cows milk
11pm bottle: 7 oz cows milk
3am bottle: 7oz cows milk

If I remove the milk is she eating enough? Thoughts appreciated. To note she is on the 25th percentile so she’s not a big baby (never has been) but growing normally with no weight concerns from HV.

Xx

Sounds ok but have you considered bedtime milk and just water when she wakes? Have you put her on a cup instead of a bottle?

I would give her formula in her 11pm bottle
She’s still very little to fully wean imo

Normally at 12 months mine are on:

Milk at wake up
Snack mid morning
Lunch
Milk and snack mid afternoon
Tea
Milk at bedtime

Personally I'd still offer 3 milk feeds a day, maybe a bit less per bottle though, say 4oz first thing and mid afternoon and 7oz at bedtime.

Sounds absolutely fine
Tbh is she drinking her milk and going straight back to sleep? She’s only little still and I would just keep doing it if she’s back off to sleep afterwards she obviously needs it

I'd giver her milk when she wakes up. So try pushing that 3am milk to 6 or 7 am over a couple of weeks.

At that age, mine had milk first thing, then breakfast. Meals as you've described with milk at bedtime too. Night waking got water. But to night wean, we always offered a small amount of milk and slowly switched it to water.

Then, all of the calories are coming in the day. Just do it all gently.

Yes I’d second maybe formula instead of cows milk for one feed if you can. Could the 11pm be formula and would she drink 8 or 9 oz?

It sounds fine, I usually give them a small mid morning and mid afternoon snack as well, just something like a bit of fruit, a rice cake with some hummus or peanut butter.
I wouldn't think that the night wakings are due to hunger if she's having a meal, followed by a sandwich, then 7oz milk.

I would have thought that was plenty of food. My DD has a cup of milk when she wakes up and when she goes to bed so your DD only had one more than mine and I know one year olds who have a mid afternoon cup of milk. It’s more the timing of them so I’d probably cut the 3am bottle and give her one when she wakes and give it to her when she wakes up in the morning instead

Sounds fine, except that 8-12 with just a nursery-sized portion of porridge is not a lot. Mine would have had their breakfast, a chunk of mine and a snack before lunch around midday.
Maybe if you gave one bottle during the day they wouldn’t need two at night?