8 month old refusing milk

[frodojodo]

My 8mo has recently started to refuse her bottles. She's on 3 solid meals a day, absolutely loves her food and usually eats all her meals.
I offer her bottles in-between meal times but recently she has started to push the bottle away and refuse to drink any, I'm lucky if she takes a few sips/1oz.

She has a bedtime bottle around 7pm and was always happy to take that full bottle or at the least half, however the past 4 nights she won't even take that bottle anymore!! She's just so uninterested in having any milk.

She is a healthy, happy baby. Her weight is apparently perfect for her age. Perhaps the meals she is getting is filling her up enough. I'm just a little concerned because it's recommended that babies take milk up until 1yr.

She wakes through the night and will sometimes take a bottle then, but through the day she really doesn't want to have any milk.

Maybe drop a bottle? Around that age my DD started refusing certain bottles, usually her bedtime bottle so I dropped one of the daytime ones. She was having 4 so dropped to 3; upon waking, before afternoon nap and before bed.

If she’s taking less than 500ml of formula in 24 hours make sure you give a multivitamin.

Our eldest was only having a bedtime bottle plus maybe 2 x 1oz sips overnight by 6 months, despite my best efforts. We were told to add dairy to her meals where possible, give her a multivitamin and make sure she was well hydrated. DD2 is 5 months (weaned early due to milk refusal and faltering growth) and heading the same way. I always offer milk between meals anyway, but going by DD1 it doesn’t seem to have much of a negative impact on development.

My eldest just didn’t like milk. Once she started having solids she would do everything possible to avoid having a proper drink of milk 😂 and eventually by 11 months I stopped offering because none of it was getting drank. Just a waste. She much preferred food.

Must add that I made sure she had cheese and yoghurt every day so she was getting enough dairy from other sources. After she turned 1 I tried offering cows milk instead but she just turned her nose up at that too! Now at 3 she still refuses milk and prefers water. But loves her yoghurt and cheese.