When did your baby drop their first milk feed?

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My LO is 10 months old and we are still on four bottles a day. She just doesn't seem to be into solids, she'll have a nibble and then just plays with it. She does Ok with breakfast but is nowhere near wanting less milk.

The nurse who came for our check up yesterday implied by a year old they should only really be on two milk feeds a day.

So I was wondering, at what age did your babies drop their first bottle?

I would have dropped at least one by now. If you're on the UK the recommended amount of formula between 10 and 12 months is 450ml or 13floz.

How would you feel about dropping the first bottle of the day and giving her breakfast and a small cup of formula instead?

Hi OP. We've got a ten month old too and were also late in dropping down her bottles. I knew that milk was the main source of nutrition before one and completely missed the memo that we were meant to be reducing it (I'm sure I read that the baby tells you when they don't want it but in practice I'm not sure that's what you're actually expected to do and until recently our baby was much preferring milk with no signs of wanting to reduce!)

We went for it and dropped her bottles down to AM, PM and bedtime a few weeks ago with no issue at all. She has days where she seems to eat adult portions of solids and days where she just nibbles and throws things out of the high chair (often due to teething). Her sleep and general happiness seem to be completely unrelated to how much she eats in that day and she grows well, so I think it is fine. Their calorific needs do slow down as their growth slows. One meal she consistently loves is greek yoghurt so she tends to have a big bowl of that a day which is pretty equivalent to a milk feed. She's now mostly playing with the afternoon feed so hopefully we can drop that soon too... We've also found that she loves drinking water out of her sippy cup, so hopefully we can try milk in that soon ...

@namechangedforthissuggestion Yeah, I've been waiting for LO to reduce how much milk she takes because that's what I heard/read you're supposed to do but I don't see it happening. She doesn't eat a great deal of solids so I don't think she's full enough to stop milk. Or she's just obsessed with milk and will drink no matter what.

That's why I wasn't sure if I should just take the lunch time bottle off the table myself? And just give her a meal and a snack before the afternoon one.

Didn't do bottles but at 10 months I was still on 4 breastfeeds a day. Roughly 7am, 11am, 3pm and 7pm. At 11 months I swapped the mid-morning one for a snack. At 12 months I swapped the mid-afternoon one for cow's milk. I just stopped offering at those times.

At 13 and 14 months I swapped the morning and evening ones for cow's milk too.

Personally I wouldn't bother waiting for her to reduce the feeds. The waiting for them to drop them and food is for fun until their one is a little outdated. It's been changed as some parents were relying too heavily on formula.

I'd definitely think about dropping one bottle now. The current advice is no bottles and 300ml of full fat cow's milk a day by 12 months

Is this the same for breastfeeding ?