Am I doing it right for an 11 month old?

[Frenchsticker]

DD has just turned 11 months and is putting on weight very well but I wonder if I'm not giving her enough milk/giving too much food.

I used to bf first thing in the morning when she woke up (the only bf of the day after I switched to formula at 9 months) but she lost all interest in this and doesn't seem to be a hungry in the morning sort of child. So she currently has a bottle mid-afternoon and another at bedtime - about 180mls each. Our schedule looks like this:

6.30am wakes and comes into bed for cuddles

8am breakfast of porridge and cow's milk

(10-11.30am nap)

12.30pm lunch

2.30pm 180mls formula

(3.30-4.15pm nap)

4.30pm snack of rice cakes, grapes, breadsticks etc

5.30pm tea (main course followed by yoghurt/custard and fruit)

7pm bath

7.20pm 180mls formula then bed

Is this ok? It seems like her afternoons are loaded with food and milk while her morning is pretty sparse, but she doesn't complain. But then I offered her a bottle of milk at 10am this morning as an experiment and she drank the lot, only then she ate less for lunch. I'm confused, please someone advise me!

Sounds good to me! If your DD is happy and enjoying her food then you're doing everything right. If you feel there's too much milk then start to reduce the afternoon bottle or offer water instead, so you're just doing milk at bedtime. From memory this is what my DD was doing around 12 months.

At around 12 months (3 weeks ago) my LO stopped eating so much for breakfast so I now let him snack on whatever he has left over from breakfast about 2 hours later, just before his nap. He is normally much hungrier at this time and finishes the food (normally fruit and rice cakes) quickly.

Thanks both for the advice. She's also starting nursery in a month so they should get her into a food and drink routine that I can shamelessly copy