Taking too little milk!

[luvlymum]

My dd is 8 months old and eats her food well but recently she is having a 7 oz bottle of milk in the morning but then she only has about 4 oz at 2.30pm and about 4oz at 7pm bedtime, since she's been doing this she is also waking up earlier in the morning and I'm not sure if this is linked to not having much milk at bedtime!

could you up her calcium in food during the day ie give lots of cheese and yoghurt

I dont know how much milk my ds has. Somedays a couple of cups somedays hardly any. sometimes i think we worry too much about stuff. Is it a pint they advice well, how much is used on cereal? in making mash? cheese sauce etc.

Seems to have been a run on these problems lately as I keep typing this reply (not having a go at all, just trying to show that you're not the only one !) but dd is also 8 months and only takes between 10 and 15 oz a day (and 15 oz is counted as a very very good day). I just make sure she has lots of other calcium - yoghurts, cheesy sauce etc and make sure she has an otherwise balanced diet to make sure she gets the other stuff thats on formula. I worried about it for ages and then decided as she appears quite happy and healthy I can't really force her to drink it !! HTH !

My daughter is breastfed and she has between 15-25 minutes during the day and about 9-20 minutes at night. Shes 11 months to the day and i'm trying to wean her onto a bottle of formula with no success. Shes very small for her age, although perfectly healthy, but I am worried she isn't getting enough. She has always been this way and my family say this is just how girls are in our family, whereas the boys pig out. I offer her milk at every opportunity but most of the time she refuses. Now shes teething again and has had a virus, she is now refusing yogurts as well and shes never liked cheese. Shes the complete opposite of her brother! (grin)

Has she just started crawling, or doing any other major thing? Sometimes this upsets the applecart.

Might sound odd but try putting her to bed a bit later. It worked for me and recently my BF and SIL.

my ds is 5 months old. he has 3 pureed meals aday but im struggling with the milk. the HV says he must have atleast 21oz aday but i cant seem to fit it all in. Hes healthy and growing well. Did everyone else manage to fit in this milk along with 3 meals? Feel like i perm feeding him!

We always struggled to get more than 12-15 oz into Munch but she, like Hazellnut's dd is fine. We always tried to get more yogurt into her on 'bad' day, which she loves, if we could but because she has always been a good eater we figured there probably wasnt any more room (she has hollow legs now at 18 months)
Had a smug moment today at a birthday party when she pushed the iceream away, pointed at the cherry tomatoes and said "MORE!"

im glad im not the only one then! At the end of the day he seems to be full so im not going to stress about the milk. the only thing is he still wakes in the night for a feed so that makes me think hes still not full in the day yet we get to the point where he refuses his food. maybe it will all just work out.

sounds like our dd is exactly the same lindster! She is having x4 formula bottles of 8 oz's but only manages about 20 oz's a day whihc is quite a lot less than the hv advises. I have been stressing today as she loves the pureed fruit and rice but struggles on the milk...Think I may look at introducing yoghurts, (can baby be to young for them.?)

QUESTION: Where can I buy baby: Gravy & Cheese Sauce. My HV advises me all supermarkets but so far I can't get it anywhere..even tried Boot's and superdrug...Any suggestions..????? Is it still available..??

I have been giving ds fromage frais. it is suitable from 4 months and he loves it. I give him 3 x6oz bottles and one 4oz bottle. On top of this he has porridge for breakfast then fruit for lunch and a dinner and pudding later on. i give him a bottle with the friut and it all seems to be working out now.

lindster I hav now been trying dd on those "danone" yoghurts and she loves them!! She has baby cereal for breakfast, fruit or veg for lunch and dinner (mixed with rice and formula) and x2 yoghurts, Bottles are given with each meal and a bottle alone for the last feed.
She has started to take even less now for her feeds,approx 4-5oz's per feed which worries me still be she has now gne back to sleeping through (bar the odd night) so I suppose she must be full enough. She has even put on over 1 lb in the last 2 weeks!

It's so hard trying to feed myself let alone a 5 month old baby! Everyone has different advice and it's hard to know if things are being done correctly. Thank god for mn