Adjusting bottles after starting weaning?

[amyboo]

DS is 20 weeks old and we are starting a bit of weaning on the advice of the paediatrician - DS is very keen and is wolfing down veg puree! At the moment he has 5 bottles a day - 7oz each at 7.30am, 11ish, 3ish, 7pm and one in the night when he wakes. I give him puree at 3ish (he took 4 ice cubes of sweet potato). I'm just unclear on whether I should still offer him the 7oz bottle after the puree, or should I give a smaller one or none at all? I'll post this on weaning as well, but I just thought someone here might be able to give some advice....

i was told to keep up the same levels of milk as it continues to be their main calorie source. I think that changes when you move on to stage 2 weaning (proteins) as they are more calorie dense but not by much. Hopefully the night feed will disappear at that time.

Yes, milk feeds should remain more or less the same until they can start to take on more calorific foods (after 6 months when they can have meat, dairy, etc...). Even then, milk remains a major source of calories until 1 year.

My DD2 is 22 weeks and we started weaning about a week ago. I bought some Plum Baby pots for taking out with us and noticed that in a 100g pot of pumpkin, carrot and mango there are only 40 odd calories - compare that with 60+ calories per 100ml of formula.

The only milk feed I have reduced slightly at the moment is her 10.30pm and I've only reduced it down by 1oz.

HTH