Milk allowance used in solids?

[jayjem]

Can someone please clarify if the daily milk allowance is included in their solids.
My 6 month old son has 210ml of milk at 7am followed by cereal at 8am which requires at least 90 mls of milk.
Do I take the 90mls from his wake up milk at 7am?
He currently has approx 840mls of formula per day and sleeps through the night from 7pm to 7am.
My mum is looking after him whilst I have retured to work, she thinks I should be taking it out of his allowance.

Bumping for you

do what you want - if he takes all of his 7am milk then use extra to do the cereal - if he doesnt take all his bottle then use the excess in the cereal. As your lo is 6 months you could use full fat cows milk in the cereal and then the formula wouldnt come into the equation at all.

I can only suggest that it doesn't matter - give as much formula as he wants in bottles and use as much milk as you need in his food.

Remember if he were breastfed you'd have no idea how many mls he was taking, and it wouldn't matter that you didn't, iyswim.

The allowance is actually a minimum, so just give the bottles as you normally do. Anyway, it doesn't matter because maybe he won't take all of the cereal, or does he?

Thank you for your replies. I will continue as I am..... first time mum just trying to get it right!!

please don;t stick rigidly to an allowance, he should still be offered as much milk as he wants, with some tastes of food on top