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For context my little boy was born 31st May so will be 9 months old next week. My little boy has never been a huge fan of drinking his milk. We've struggled with silent reflux, constipation from the gaviscon and lots of reflux and trapped wind...I started weaning him at 6mths (resisted the urge to start earlier!!) and he has taken to it really well. We did a combination approach and he will eat pretty much anything now! He now has 3 meals a day and loves his food. We have dropped to 3 bottles of 8oz as he wasnt finishing the 4 bottles of 7oz but it is a struggle to get him to take it. I know that the main source of nutrition should be milk until the age of 1 but my little boy eats a really healthy, balanced diet so does it really matter if he's only having about 18oz of milk a day or should I cut down the food? An example of what he has eaten today: Breakfast was porridge with a strawberry and 5 blueberries Lunch was a slice of Wholemeal toast with scrambled egg, tomatoes and avocado Dinner was a bit of cod fillet, mash potato, broccoli, carrots and peas and I used his milk to make a bit of a sauce so it wasn't dry. He also had a fruit pouch for pudding.

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Aww bless him, that's such a good amount of food and variety in a day! Maybe drop down to 3 bottles of 7floz? As that's still 21floz a day, which is perfectly fine for his age. My girl was 9 months yesterday and she has now 3-4 7 floz bottles a day and 3 meals 🙂

I was advised with my little boy who is now three that as long as he was eating a varied and balanced diet the milk consumption didn’t have to be a huge concern as he also wanted to drop his milk very fast! I also gave him a multivitamin everyday while weaning and this helps with vitamins that they don’t get from the milk they would have been having. Sounds like he loves his food and seems very balanced so lots of good nutrients on his meals

I think nhs advice is that once they are on 3 good meals a day they expect milk intake to be around 600ml which is avoid 21 oz I think so sounds OK.

My LB was the same. He absolutely loves solid food and is milk intake massively reduced once he was on solids. I was actually holding off on moving from two to three meals as I was so concerned but my HV said as long as he was taking a minimum of 16oz a day then not to worry. I would say he manages roughly 18oz a day. I make him four 6oz bottles but he never finishes them. Maybe two 5oz bottles and two 4oz. He goes roughly 5 hours between bottles during the day. He never cries for milk but once it gets to 5 hours I make him a bottle. Not sure if I should be letting him go longer.

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