Dropping to 3 bottles

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DD is on 4 bottles at the moment and is leaving about a bottles worth each day. She is eating really well and is 10 months so I think it's time to drop to 3 bottles. The thing is, I'm not sure how to adjust our schedule. It usually looks something like this:

7-8am First bottle
9am Breakfast
10am Nap
11am Second bottle
1pm Lunch
2pm Nap
3pm Third bottle
5pm Dinner
6:30pm Bedtime bottle

Reluctant to move meal times too much as she goes straight from high chair to cot for her nap (after a book / nursery rhyme to let food go down). Its been a nightmare getting her to nap in the day so this important! But just dropping the 11am or 3pm bottle seems a big gap. Any ideas??

Replace the 11am or 3pm bottle with a snack or drop the morning bottle and eat breakfast first thing.

Personally, I replaced the 11am bottle with a snack because she was already losing interest. I found that she ate more solids at lunch time.

We replaced the 11am bottle with a snack - yoghurt worked well as a halfway house and now it's whatever I can chuck DS' way before he gets too hangry!

Snacks aren’t recommended until after 12 months as milk should still be her main source of nutrition. If she is leaving milk at every feed you could just make smaller bottles.

Instead of dropping one bottle I reduced the 11 and 3pm one to half what DD had been having before and then over time she dropped them completely and was happy with snacks at that time instead. I’ve not heard that about snacks; I was told to give snacks to help reduce the bottle by the health visitor

We swapped the 11am one and 3pm ones for snacks and then had a bottle after lunch and before nap around 1pm.

Your baby is 10m now and if she eats well then you need to be weaning slowly from milk in bottles as her main source of nutrition, to actual food and milk as a supplemental drink