Cutting down bottles!
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Hi girls! Me again.....
I was just wondering, I'm introducing a 3rd meal to my LO's routine this week! She started weaning at 17 weeks and has been on 2 meals since 20 weeks, she's now 25 weeks!
What I was wondering is when and how do you start cutting down bottles? She currently has 4 6oz bottles!
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Becky
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I was just wondering, I'm introducing a 3rd meal to my LO's routine this week! She started weaning at 17 weeks and has been on 2 meals since 20 weeks, she's now 25 weeks!
What I was wondering is when and how do you start cutting down bottles? She currently has 4 6oz bottles!
Ta
Becky
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She will need at least 20oz of milk each day until she is a year old and she isn't far from that now.
My little ones are defo cutting back their bottles by just leaving what they don't want. If this happens at the same time for a few days, I have been putting less in the bottle.
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HTH hun, give Eve a squidge for me! x x x
Having led the baby led weaning book I decided I liked the idea of just letting her tell me when she was ready to cut down on milk, so that's what I'm going to do and I'm much less stressed about it! If she's had a big dinner she'll take a few oz less milk, so I know as she gets more skilled at eating and hungrier she'll probably carry on in that direction. Paed told us when advising us to wean early to concentrate our big milk feeds on morning and bedtime and see what she wanted in between. The only slightly 'non baby led' thing I do now is try to make her 3pm milk feed smaller than the others ie I tend to offer 5 oz as opposed to 7oz, or 4oz and a wee snack, so she's hungrier for her tea at 5pm, but even then if she cried for more at 3pm I'd give her it! xx