Food/Formula Balance - 10 Months. HV advice wrong?!

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If your baby was FF, how much formula were they having from 10ish months to a year?

Our last appt with the HV was at 8m and at the time he was taking about 28oz of formula a day (4x7oz bottles) as well as just moving onto 3 meals. He’s taken to weaning so well - eats like a horse 😅 yet to find a food he doesn’t like which is amazing. At that appointment the HV said she didn’t want him dropping much below that milk intake - he should be taking at least 22-25oz until he turns 1. Does that advice seem correct? 🤔
I know he needs vitamins if he drops below around 20oz per day. At the moment I feel like I’m having to force milk into him to meet her guideline.
I thought the guideline in the picture was more “normal” (well aware that all babies are different!). I can’t imagine being able to force 22-25oz into him for too much longer - he loves his morning and nighttime bottle but is fast losing interest in other feeds during the day!

Just for reference incase it’s relevant to her advice - big baby at birth, 6%drop in birthweight and regained within 10 days. Has remained 91st centile since.
Typical daily meals:

• Breakfast - scrambled egg, porridge, sugar free banana or blueberry pancakes etc
• Lunch - he loves a cold picnic style lunch - any combination of tomatoes, cucumber, grapes, avocado, crackers, breadsticks, pasta, hummus, raspberries, cheese, yoghurt. Or an omelette if he didn’t have eggs at breakfast. Quesadilla, cheese twists, veggie fritters.
• Dinner - depends what we’re having - spag bol, chicken curry, chicken pie, pasta dishes, fish with sweet pot and veggies, meatballs

NHS says babies will drink about 400-600 ml a day at 10-12 months though obviously that's as a guide not a rule! www.nhs.uk/conditions/baby/weaning-and-feeding/babys-first-solid-foods/

My dd took to weaning really well and dropped her milk fairly quickly - at 10 months think she was on around 7oz first thing and bedtime and a smaller one in the day, though that sort of came and went whether she would take it and was dropped altogether by 11 months if not slightly before - I would sometimes offer a calcium rich snack mid afternoon as she got closer to one though tended to depend how the day was going.

So yeah your HV is wrong I think, they often are I've found!

Doesn't sound right to me. At that age both mine were down to 2 milk feeds alongside food. Milk in food and other dairy products count towards the intake too

DS polished an 8 oz bottle first thing in the morning (then I used 6 ounces of formula to make up his breakfast porridge). I also offered an afternoon bottle (6/7 oz) which sometimes he took, sometimes he didn't. He also had 7/8 oz as a bedtime bottle but he rarely finished it all. I really didn't stress about his milk intake, it this was about the time I put a spoonful of vitamins in his morning bottle as I knew the other bottles would be a hit and miss. DS was also a very good eater and I didn't force him any more milk than he wanted (or food!).

@AliasGrape @dementedpixie @MintLampShade Thanks guys 👍🏻 My HV has been absolutely amazing - I really can’t fault her at all but that advice just didn’t seem quite right to me! I make sure he eats a calcium rich diet too so I’m confident that he’s getting plenty! He’ll pretty reliably take about 19-21oz currently across 3 bottles in the day but the last few days he’s stopped asking for his bottle during the day so I know he’s getting ready to drop that one soon!