My baby has reduced her milk intake

[kani]

My baby girl is 6 months and 3 weeks now. And for a month now she has started reducing her milk intake. Basically she takes 4-5 bottles of 125mls of milk plus my breast feeding per day. And even that bottle of 125ml she doesn't finish as in the middle of it she starts refusing sucking by pushing the bottle away. Although we usually try to make her finish but most of the times she just refuses. This worries me so much as now i can see she is kinda reducing weight. What i believe at this stage she is supposed to increase her milk intake as she is growing up. She takes my milk very well but my milk production now is low as am back at the office full time.
Please advise me what should i do? Is this an alarming situation?

has she started weaning? What's her consumption of solids like? My ds started dropping milk feeds from a similar age, I think he was maybe a week older, so 7 months old. By the time he was 8 months old he was only having milk (either breast or formula as I was back at work) morning, afternoon and evening. I think it's normal as solids are introduced for babies to start getting more of their calories from milk. Milk does still remain very important until they're one, but IIRC they need about 21 fl oz a day (approx 3 x 7 fl oz feeds or breast equivalent) once they are up and running on solids. HTH

Not exactly weaning but i have introduced solids which she takes 3 times a day plus juice. But she takes her milk before every feed as i know milk is much important. Then from the IIRC measures i think she maybe doing fine. As basically she takes milk before her every feed like 30 to 60 mins before then she takes water after her every meal. then like at 4pm she takes her juice, maybe this is enough.

Sounds to me like she's doing fine... babycentre has a guide, there are others around. Try googling infant milk intake or something like that. I do think they vary a little, and of course with breast feeding you have no amounts to go by, but assume if she's finished bfing that she's had enough.

It does say on that site not to give juice as it can fill the baby up and might prevent them wanting as much milk as they need. I never gave ds juice, just a bit of water every now and then if it was hot, but really they should be getting all the fluid they need from milk.

Her doc told me to start giving her juice so as to avoid constipation due to solids intake. The thing with parenting there are so many contradicting advices you dont know which is which and one has to decided what is best. But she likes her juice very much. Thank you very much for sharing your experience this site is awesome.

Has she been constipated? DS was a little bit constipated when i first started introducing solids, it's difficult for their little guts to move the solids along at first, but they get the hang eventually. when he did get a little bit stuck I'd give him very weak juice diluted with lots of water which I stopped once things got moving again. But you're right, you get so many conflicting pieces of advice. Trust your instincts, if she's gaining weight, has plenty of wet and dirty nappies, is active and bonny then she's getting enough milk. If she likes her juice then keep it up. My ds used to wince at the sharpness of it, hence I never really kept it going.

You're right though, this site is awesome!

Very few times she has been constipated, but i still keep the juice in her diet plus she loves her juice (half juice half water dilution)