She drinks water sporadically, some days she drinks heaps and other days not much. Those days i try and put a driblle of milk in her bottle just so it looks white and then all water. She is a bugger with her eating. Some days she will eat heaps and other days...like today...she has eaten next to nothing. I have tried to offer her different things and tried to involve her in the process, but she is a lazy little sod and if you dont catch her in that window between hungry and overtired all bets are off. So maybe just cut out milk completely and break her of habit??
Yeah, I'd try cutting way back. 200ml max, maybe? Or less even. If she's filling up on milk then she's not going to eat much. Also, don't worry too much if she has eating days and noneating days, it's totally normal. If you average it out over the week, then it'll probably still look pretty good, if that makes sense.
I'd try to cut back as well. I also read, on this amazing site, that it's not what they eat in a day but what they eat in a 48hr period and I would even go as far to say average what she has eaten out over a 5 day period. You will probably be surprised how much go stuff she is actually consuming.
With DD1 we cut back to a warm (or cold depending on weather) milk with breakfast then some days she would have a biscuit & milk in the afternoon but she dropped her own night time bottle around 12mths.
If she wakes over night can you give her water slightly warmed and rather than a bottle of milk?
I second that if she is filling up on milk she will tend to eat less, we found that DD1 did that so we only ever offered the bottle either 30-40min BEFORE food (even up to an hour) OR she didn't get it until after food, even then we would try and allow roughly 30min for food to settle.
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