1 year old weaning

[Shell92]

I’m feeling a little overwhelmed with the whole weaning/feeding/dropping bottles.
My little girl is 1 on Saturday and she’s still on 3 bottles of formula, one in the morning, one at 2pm and one before bed. Is this too much for her age? We haven’t even started cows milk introduction yet. And she’s still drinking 8oz formula in each bottle.
She has a big breakfast and tea about 5pm but lunch, she’s just been having a few snacks (yoghurts, puffs, banana) after her 2pm bottle because I don’t know where to start with lunches. I don’t eat 3 meals myself so I’m struggling with ideas. I’m scared to drop that middle bottle because she’s not a great eater. And she’s just started sleeping through aswell so even more scared to change things.
What should my next step be here? Getting rid of that 2pm bottle maybe or starting cows milk?

I switched mine just before 1 to cow's milk 7oz morning and night and 1 about dinner time. We dropped the mid day bottle within weeks, food wise thing's like, sandwich soap something with eggs. Dc might eat more if you drop the dinner time bottle.

I had the same issue with my little boy (14 months now) and I also don't eat 3 meals a day so it took me a little while to get used to making sure he was eating enough.

I started with making sure he had a breakfast as soon as we got up and then a snack closer to nap time and then he had his bottle before his nap. Same with lunch but I did snack first and then lunch closer to his naptime (usually scrambled eggs as i struggle for lunch ideas) and then bottle and then snack after 2nd nap and dinner closer to bedtime with a bottle before bed.

With the bottles I just slowly started reducing the number of oz until it got near a amount he found annoyingly small (this was about 3 -4 oz for him) then I removed 1 bottle at a time starting with the morning bottle then lunch and the evening bottle was the last one to go as I was nervous about him being hungry overnight.

He's now bottle free except for when he gets sick. I still struggle to get mine to drink a lot of cows milk but I try to make up for it with lots of yogurt and a multivitamin!

Hope this helps a bit 😊

Could you drop the first bottle and go straight to breakfast? If you’re feeling a bit worried about the drop in milk then you could always offer a cup of cow’s milk with her breakfast.

Start for life has some information on feeding babies over 12 months here which might be helpful.

At that age mine like things like eggy bread with some berries on the side.

Mashed avocado in toast.

Leftovers from tea the night before.

Omelette Fingers

Salmon Pasta

Tuna & Sweetcorn sandwich.