Can someone clarify just how much milk my 8.5 mo should be having?? books i have read suggest she should be down to one large bottle a day, but also note the 'before one food is for fun' mantra. which is it? at the moment she has around 2.5 bottles a day (and during night unfortunately) and i'm loathe to reduce this massively without being sure she is getting enough calories from elsewhere. like most new crawlers she's all over the place and has too much to do of a day to be bothered with sitting still for long periods to eat. breakfast is generally a non-starter, lunch can be hit and miss, as can dinner, the only food i can generally guarantee she'll eat is fruit - bananas, grapes, plums - but the carb content in these are serving her immediate energy needs and not addressing the 'building' requirement. which is where the milk comes in. the hv says i need to get her out of the feeding at night habit by giving her more food during the day. very easy to say, not so easy to do. at the moment she is bang on the 50th percentile so i worry that any major changes to her diet may result in her slipping below this.
can anyone advise please.