DS is nearly 1 and currently eats the following:
7am wakes up
7.30am 7oz bottle of milk
9am Breakfast - ready brek/wheatabix, toast & fruit (only eats a little of each)
12pm Lunch - usually main meal e.g. pasta & meatballs or chicken casserole etc followed by fruit or yoghurt
2.30pm 7oz bottle of milk (but dropping this from today)
3.30pm Snack if we are out or at someone's house - breadsticks/rice cake/biscuit
5pm Supper - beans on toast/sandwiches/fishfingers/fish cakes etc followed by fruit or yogurt
7pm 7oz bottle of milk before bed
He doesn't eat much of any of the above. For the last couple of weeks he was eating really well and put on lots of weight but has ow reverted to not eating much (must have been a growth spurt).
My question is, should he still be having milk from a bottle first thing in the morning and last thing at night, or should I merge the milk with breakfast and supper and from a cup, and give breakfast soon ater waking up?
I'm having a problem getting him to drink much from a cup. He will drink loads of water from a bottle at each meal time (8oz), but when offered a beaker instead he will only have a couple of mouthfuls. I'm trying to resist offering him water from the bottle, but don't want him to get dehydrated, as in the past he has suffered from constipation when he has cut back on water!
All his peers seem to quite happily drink both milk and water from beakers.
Help!