DD2 cut 2 bottom teeth at 5mths and the top 2 are visible under her gums. For the past 2 nights she has flatly refused her bedtime bottle. This is in addition to being ultra tricky with her other milk feeds.
She has been on 3 meals a day for a month now, eating really well and since discovering porridge has refused her breakfast bottle. (DD1 did the same so I'm not fussed by this).
For the past month she has been offered a mid morning bottle of 150ml, mid afternoon of the same, bedtime bottle of 180ml, 11pm bottle of 180ml and 3am bottle of 150ml. That said she has tended to only drink half of what was offered mid morning and afternoon, and will only have 150ml at most at bedtime. The 11pm bottle tends to get drained and the middle of the night bottle is variable.
Today has been a new low in terms of milk consumed. I dropped the mid morning bottle in favour of rice cakes and water. Mid afternoon she drank 40ml (the past few days she has drunk it all), at bedtime she had all of 20ml and refused to drink more before passing out with tiredness [she is also a rubbish daytime napper having at most three 30minute sleeps per day unless I am pushing her in her buggy or cuddling her which isn't always feasible with a 2.5 yr old to cope with too] but has been asleep since 6.45....
Last night she did the same with her bedtime bottle and I actually had the best sleep out of her ever in that she woke at 11, had 120ml of milk, asleep again by 11.20 and then didn't wake til 5am, I put her next to me in bed and cuddled her and she then snoozed til 6.45!
So, my rather rambling question is this. Do I need to worry or am I right in presuming that she'll find her own level and all I can do is offer the milk and it's up to her to take it. I'm presuming when the top two teeth appear in the next few days the milk will ramp up again?