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Enough milk?

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Dlah · 08/06/2017 09:57

My daughter is just over 7 months old, she had a fab routine of 6oz every 3 hours up to weaning and around 5/6 months we started introducing puréed and little finger foods. I know they should naturally drop bottles but I'm not sure if she's not getting enough milk?

Currently;
6.30am - 6/7oz bottle
8am - porridge
9.30am - offer 5oz bottle but currently only taking 1-3oz
12 - veg purée & finger food
1pm - offer 5oz bottle will take 2-3oz
4pm - depending what doing bottle or more food
6.30pm - bed bottle 6oz - will usually drink all

It's the day time ones as you can see, she's become uninterested, not sure what's best to do?

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arbrighton · 08/06/2017 13:37

At 7 months, it's unlikely she's getting enough food to provide the calories she still needs. She's still just trying/ learning about food

Try offering the bottle (slightly smaller, e.g. 4 oz) about an hour before food.

Perhaps move the 9:30 one later, it's very close to the porridge.

Is she not waking overnight at all for a feed? What weight/ centile is she?

WhittersE · 08/06/2017 14:05

I was going to say the same thing. Maybe offer a late morning bottle, say 10:40/11:00 and then maybe a mid afternoon bottle. So it's not too close to food, but so she's not really hungry by meal times.

When DS was that age I felt I was constantly giving milk or food, in order to space them out a bit, but it does get easier!!

Dlah · 09/06/2017 09:13

I hate saying this as I'm sure most people want to slap me lol but she's slept through the night since 2 weeks! So aside from first 2 weeks I set alarms to wake her and try and feed and she'd barely take an ounce, she now happily sleeps 10-11 hours each night without a feed.
She's petit anyway, always been between 9th & 25th centimetres but is happy & healthy in herself.
I'm going to tweak the routine today and see how we get on

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arbrighton · 09/06/2017 11:24

not going to slap you but if you could wave a magic wand so my imminent baby will do that, I'd be grateful Wink Envy

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