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How much formula at 10 months, and when to introduce cows milk

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BPrincess · 14/04/2012 20:53

Basically that... she's having about 210ml per day now, sometimes a little more, so not much at all. And most of that is at bedtime. So really it's solids all day and then a bedtime bottle and a bit more if she wakes in the night (thankfully this is now rare). Is that the right amount?
And then when to move from formula to cow's?
And does the sippy cup thing really matter? The bedtime bottle makes her nice and sleepy cos she can just lie back and half fall asleep on the bottle, but I don't think this would happen with a sippy cup...

Any ideas or answers?

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Whenisitmysleepytime · 15/04/2012 08:49

I can tell you about my dc but not sure of official recommendations.
Both were milk monsters and were having double that easily at 10mo. But compare to their peers that was a LOT! I'd say as long as there are plenty of wet nappies it's not a problem.
I introduced a sippy cup at about 10mo. It was water and I offered it at meals or with a snack. To be honest both of mine took ages to get the hang of it and dd still spits/ dribbles a lot out at 1yo.
Cows milk is fine from 1yo.
I dropped ds' bedtime bottle and replaced it with a cup/ sports bottle thingy when he was in a bed (after climbing out the cot) at about 18mo. We did milk on the sofa watching cbeebies before bath and story. He was big enough then to fall asleep on his own iyswim.

HTH. :)

JiltedJohnsJulie · 16/04/2012 12:34

Current advice is 20oz of formula between 6 and 12 months. Once they are one you can ditch the bottles and the formula and between 12 and 24 months they should be having 300ml of cow's milk.

vj32 · 19/04/2012 12:20

Ds is breast fed but I have just started giving him a little bit of cows milk to drink with his breakfast so he gets used to the test. He is just over 11 months, 3 feeds in 24 hours and eats loads! I am being careful his diet has lots of dairy in it though.

vj32 · 19/04/2012 12:21

Could you introduce a cup for the daytime so she gets used to it and leave the night feed in a bottle, then replace that later?

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