How many bottles do you give a 7 month old??

[pelvicflawed]

Our 7 month old DS is turning into a nightmare with his bottles and we seem to pour most of his milk down the sink can anyone tell me what pattern of bottles their baby has??? We've been weaning since around 22 weeks and its going fine he just about shoves anything down and hasn't lost his appetite. We used to give him 4 bottles a day 7am, 11.30, 4 and 8. By this stage we expected to drop either the 11.30 or 4 bottle but we're now getting refusals all over the place and I just don't know what I'm doing with his feeds (last night he took 1.5 oz of his 8 feed and then next morning only 2oz). I'm struggling to get 20 oz in him a day and resort to disguising formula in his food. He seems fine in himself and is gaing weight (he is a smaller baby - just on 25 centile). Should also add that he won't really drink anything else apart from milk. DH are getting really hassled with the trauma of giving him a milk feed (not to mention the expense of most of it going down the sink!!!!)

My DS is 7 and a half months... this is his daily routine:
7am - Milk 8oz
9am - Breakfast (weetabix & fruit)
12pm - lunch (cooked meal)
2pm - Milk 8oz - often leaves a few oz
4.30pm - Tea (toast & pudding)
7.00pm - Milk 8oz

He is a big lad and finishes everything bar the 2pm lunch.

I have the same problem with my 7m DD. Used to have her bottles with no problem but now for couple of weeks refuses her morning and lunch-time bottles, has only couple of oz.
We do at the moment:
8am milk (6-7oz but now 2-3oz)
9am breakfast- fruit usually
12pm milk (5-6oz, now 3-4oz)
1pm lunch- veggies
4pm milk (5-6oz)
5.30 dinner- toast and fruit
7.30 milk (8-9oz)
11pm milk (had to start giving to her because was waking up middle of the night screaming and hungry, has 7oz).
But something needs to be changed here, so working on it (have little idea what to do)....

I have been having the same problems. 7am lucky if I get 120mls down his neck! Have got rid of the 11.30 feed but only because Bfast is at 10am! 2.30 - 3pm bottle about 150mls and then 7.30pm he either drinks 220ml because he's hardly eaten anything or drinks bugger all cos he's eaten something! Thinking of going back to work ... at least I was good at that!!!

same as maxwells mum here

try him with a cup?

he could be feeling a bit sick sometimes they don't want milk then

Thanks for your replies - it seems that that round 7 months is a good time for babies to get funny about milk - at least I know its not just my baby!!!!The little lad would eat us out of house and home given half the chance seems that he only has milk as a last resort!!!!!I know we wanted him weaned but we didn't want him to go off milk that quick (poor lad can't win!!)

I had exactly the same problem with ds for the last few weeks, some days he would only take about 12oz and I was getting really panicky as he won't take water either.
BUT his top teeth appeared this week and he's back on the milk again - even had 32oz the other day. so it might just be a teeth related weird phase. I just stuck to the usual times for milk, didn't offer it at any other time and it sorted itself out.
Well that's this week anyway, who knows what tricks he'll come up with next week!!

love the nickname pelvicflawed btw

Hi - thanks yes I am starting suspect that there may be a top teeth thing going on (bottom two have been through for 6 weeks or so)as dribble and red cheeks have come back - good to know I'm not the only one.