9.5 Month old and bottle refusal

[Mad Scientist]

Have you thought about dropping the number of bottles? My dd2 is ten months and has had three bottles from about 8 months. She barely touches her midday one though. I would persevere with the formula but don't count how many mls he's having. He'll drink what he needs. Just make sure you're offering him plenty of water to keep his fluids up. I can't stand the way they tell you how 'much' they should be drinking. Like you said, he's getting nutrition from solids. But yeah, i'd stick with the formula til 12 months then go down the cows milk road...although they saythey don't need bottles after 12 months. Hope that helps

[tattoo_mama]

my DD has (well is offered) 4 bottles during the day (usually 6am 10am 2pm and 6pm) i make up 150ml but she takes anywhere from 80-120mls...so shes only having about 400ml a day but eats everything i put in front of her (shes doing baby led solids). i worry too but the CHN said if shes happy and has wet nappies its all good.

cows milk is hard for a baby to digest (people arent sposed to drink cows milk at all) and doesnt contain all the vitamins etc that a baby gets from formula/BM

HTH

[MummyNaomi]

Have you thought about dropping the number of bottles? Hope that helps

Thanks Nik - I dropped the afternoon bottle and am now making up 3 x 180mls at 6am-ish, 11ish and bedtime - DS is almost finishing the morning and night ones, and drinks about half of the 11am one - so we are doing much better now

Thanks for the input everyone - most appreciated