Volume of milk when baby led weaning

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I read recently in Weaning Made Easy that when you are weaning, your baby should be taking no more than 600ml per day of milk, with the rest of the calories coming from food. I'm presuming the author was meaning this to be correct when you are spoon feeding - the experience of some of my friends who are weaning this way seems to suggest this is right.

When you do BLW, does this apply? I'm ffing and DD currently takes four or five 240ml bottles per day. Just about to wean her. Should I reduce this to ensure she "eats" her solids? I'm struggling with this. Surely just cutting her milk back to 600ml per day would be a stupid thing to do...????

Anyone else done BLW and ff? What was your baby's milk intake like at the beginning?

I would say that the 600mls relates to when your lo is fully on to 3 proper meals per day - I always read it as a minimum level rather than a maximum though.

I spoon fed but was still guided by what the kids wanted and only reduced milk when they started taking less from the bottle. DS was on 5 milk feeds per day until he was 8 months old and gradually dropped them until he was on 2 milk feeds by 11 months.

I'm not totally BLW as DS has a purée type dinner but brekkie and lunch are finger food. He is also FF. We started at 24 weeks and now at 8.5 months he's on about 24oz a day, which is considerably less than before. It really depends on your routine but I found that I slightly reduced the feeds that fell near meal times to save some room for solids (5oz from 7oz at brekkie and lunch) and kept the others the same. He then started to 'forget' the odd feed (mid morning first and then mid afternoon) and I didn't remind him and offered a snack instead. HTH

500-600ml is the minimum amount of milk a formula fed 6+ month old needs in order to get enough vits etc. If you are BLW it is important to continue feeding on demand, but keep in mind the minimum amount.

Just come back from a paediatric consultant's appointment with dd2 (she has a cows' milk protein allergy and we were referred on for advice re weaning). She is 9 months, BLW (with the very occasional spoon fed meal) and averages 800-1000ml of milk a day as well as 3 meals a day, which I was concerned was too much. The consultant said this is what she would want and expect at this age for dd's weight (she is nearly 10 kg). Apparently it's the weight of the baby at this age that really determines how much milk they want and need, not their age.
I remember being worried about ds1 at this stage too - he was a total milk monster. I can't quite remember when he started dropping feeds as I think it was a very gradual thing.

Thank you everyone, that's helpful. I'd also asked our Health Visitor but she confessed she didn't really know anything about BLW so wasn't much help!