Too much milk?

[ThunderSnacks]

Our 11 month old has been eating three fairly good meals since six months, along with having 250ml milk four times a day (7am, 11am, 3pm and 7pm). She's been sleeping through since about 7 months, and has always fallen asleep pretty easily. We just sort of pop her down and she drops off.

However, for the last four nights she's been ravenous at bedtime - inconsolable until we've topped up her milk until she's taken about 400/450ml. This is on top of all her usual food and milk. Is this ok? It seems like an enormous amount to be giving her all at once!

15oz alone at bed time?

Yeah op this is a lot. If her last bottle is at 7pm what time is she having the 15oz?

Is she showing no signs of dropping a day time bottle?

Apologies I think I did the maths a bit wrong. She's having about 400ml as her last bottle, on top of the other 250ml x4 plus food. She doesn't wake for feeding in the night.

I do struggle to get her to take much water during the day. She's also VERY active. She's just started walking so I wondered if it's related to that, along with a growth spurt?

400 is 14oz so that's like two bottles? Is that right?

So an extra bottle on a night?
Think I've understood

Weetabix and a bottle at bedtime? Worked for all of mine!!

She’s probably going through a growth spurt, all mine would do this. Just be careful as they would also do it was not feeling well too for some reason and would end up vomiting everywhere. Most of the time it was a growth spurt though. I never restricted them, if they wanted it I let them have it as long as it wasn’t effecting their appetite.

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So an extra bottle on a night? Think I've understood

Yes! Basically two bottles back to back! It sees her through until morning but I'm worried it's a lot to digest all at once.

Would she like supper in replacement of one of those bottles?
Make it fun, obv not as in sugar but so she want the extra one

My 11 month old is suddenly having more milk during the night OP - she was sleeping through but has been teething and ill lately and seems to want much more milk. Maybe it is a growth spurt then but I wasn't sure they still had them at that kind of rate...

She's having a good meal between 5.30-6 ish so I'm not sure when we'd fit supper in!

I'm hoping it's a growth spurt If it doesn't settle down soon I'll try and track down a HV.

Yeah introduce supper, a mashed banana is a good choice, contains magnesium which relaxes apparently

Give the supper same time as bottle, doesn't need to be before at a certain time

When you say she’s eating fairly good meals, how much is she eating? 4 x 250ml bottles + 3 meals sounds like a lot at 11months even before the top up in the evening. 500-600ml a day is fairly typical for this age and she’s way over that.

If she’s still sleeping through, I wouldn’t worry too much about drinking that much at once if she’s continuing to sleep through and it isn’t making her obviously uncomfortable.