How much milk for 1yr old? And suggestions for mid morning/afternoon snacks pls!

[bytheMoonlight]

DD2 has just turned 1. She has a 9oz bottle 3 times a day. After breakfast, lunch and before bed.

I should know from dd1 what I am doing but seem to have forgotten it all, I'm sure dd1 weaned herself off bottles by now but dd2 is showing no signs of giving them up.

She eats three good meals a day but I am failing on the mid morning snack/afternoon snack by just offering fruit which isn't filling. Ideally I need snacks which are easy to grab and not that messy (to fit in with the nursery runs, trips to park, toddler groups etc)

She drinks water brilliantly from her sippy cup, should I be using this for her milk instead of her bottle?

Please advise me!

They say a pint a day? I don't know what that is in oz?

I have an 11MO that is dropping the BF herself, I can't get her to feed at all in the day She has cows milk or water in a cup to drink.

I haven't bothered with bottles at all.

I don't really give her snacks, just breakfast, (weetabix/ ready brek) lunch (sandwich, malt loaf, fruit, omelette, rice cakes, toast, not all at once:)) and dinner (whatever we have).

She eats like a trucker at meal times though. I don't snack really, so it didn't occur to me to give her snacks

Perhaps if I bump for you with my useless post, someone who knows will come along :)

I just used to let DS drink however much milk he wanted, so can't help you much there I'm afraid! But rice cakes, bananas, slices of cheese, chicken pieces, raisins (or baby crack, as they are referred to in this house), sliced cucumber tomato and a slice of brown bread, avocado is also quite filling... Could you make smoothies? With whizzed banana, yogurt and frozen berries? Flapjacks with fruit in are great too.

I just used to let DS drink however much milk he wanted, so can't help you much there I'm afraid! But rice cakes, bananas, slices of cheese, chicken pieces, raisins (or baby crack, as they are referred to in this house), sliced cucumber tomato and a slice of brown bread, avocado is also quite filling... Could you make smoothies? With whizzed banana, yogurt and frozen berries? Flapjacks with fruit in are great too, and keep for ages in a tin/sealed tupperware.

Flapjacks would make dd1 very happy as well

Great suggestions thanks Freddie

It was the suggestion of the HV that I should give snacks to enable weaning. I had just been giving the occasional banana or satsuma Nagoo.

DD2 does not want her milk from a sippy cup this morning, do I persevere or shall I give her her bottle back?

I gave her a bottle in the end ... right or wrong thing to do?