DD is 9 Months tomorrow (last weight was 1 week ago and she is 7.9kg) and generally i've always given her a bottle before giving her solid foods. As she doesn't consistently eat all her solid foods and I haven't got her drinking good amounts of water yet I'm always worried she won't get enough fluid so have kept up the milk.

In the morning she gets up and has 180ml milk and then I give her weet bix with pear/banana farex mixed in OR maybe apple & oatmeal. She generally eats half of the weet bix but on the odd occasion will surprise me and eat it all.

For lunch she again has milk first (usually between 120-180ml) and then she has lunch of a meat/vegie dish with some fruit/yoghurt depending on how interested she seems in food.

She has a bottle mid-late afternoon which is again about 120-180ml depending then she doesn't have anything else till about 5pm when I give her dinner of a meat/vegie dish with some more fruit and maybe some cheese and a biscuit while i make up her bath. She then has her last bottle before bedtime (about 7pm) and again can be between 120-180ml. Is 4 bottles a day too much at this age or is it fine?

Should I just keep this routine up or should I be offering her solids now before milk. If YES, then how do I keep her fluid intake up if she isn't having water (I'm onto my 4th type of sippy cup in the water department) as obviously if she eats solid food first she'll be less interested in milk.

I'm also a little worried about the morning one as she really goes nuts when she hears me shake it up for her and really gulps it straight down.

P.S. How much water per day is a good amount for her to drink?