Sponge I wanted to reply to your weaning thread, but thought I'd do it here! Am assuming your friends babies are about 28 weeks if they started at 24 weeks which is about the same as S (who's FF and on purees).
S is a bit textbook when it comes to milk feeds, so is now on 4 8oz feeds per day (he doens't finish all of those). AFIK all the puree books say that once baby is on 3 meals a day they need between 500-600 mls per day which could easily be given in 3 bottles.
However, it could also be given in 5 smaller bottles if that suited their babies. S currently has a bottle on milk with his lunch, but I'm hoping that he'll drop that once we start protein as its not a good idea to be giving milk with protein meals. He'd then get milk on waking, milk mid afternoon and then milk at bedtime.
I think that the HV is an old-school hard-liner and was a bit that she was advocating filling up on sugar laden puddings. I think hidden in her dubious advice was a message that at 7 months the babies nutrional needs could be met on less milk than they were being given.
I'm hoping that the less bottles S is on, the easier it will be to transfer to a beaker when the time comes, but that's what suits me and S. Only your friends I think can know what's best for their babies once they've taken into account the relevant guidance.
On BF, I too continue to have issues about the fact that I couldn't and the lack of appropriate support.
{blush] have just posted this on the wrong thread. Thankfully nothing controversial