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How much milk to give?

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Alicia870 · 05/04/2019 21:19

So I know food before one is for fun and milk is the most important nutrition source til then, but I am just confused about milk and how much to give now baby is 6 months and weaning.
At the minute she has 4 bottles of formula a day totalling around 26-27oz a day. Her bedtime feed is9oz! She has 2 meals per day of purée.
Do I just keep milk the same? Surely babs will be getting lots more calories than she is used to on this? I'm waiting for health visitor so will clarify with her but just wanted to check. She is a chunky little thing so I don't want her to gain too much weight if it's going to be unhealthy for her!

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dementedpixie · 05/04/2019 21:35

It's a minimum of 20oz from 6 months to 1 year. They will start to reduce milk themselves as the solids increase. Depending on the purees, they probably don't contain a huge amount of calories so to start with you offer the same amounts of milk

Wallsbangers · 06/04/2019 08:37

Offer the same amount and yours baby will reduce by themselves. We went from 5 to 4 by 8 months, then down to 2 by 11 months. They need a lot of calories to do all that growing and development.

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