First weaning - do you replace a milk bottle?

[Arlandria]

I started Olivia on porridge about tea time but still kept her usual milk feed - and now we've moved that to the morning and she had a meal-pot (1/2) and sometimes a pudding (ie rice pudding) but should i now drop that one feed as she's eating more?

She usually has about 5 bottles a day...

7:30 Bottle
8am Porridge
11am Bottle
2:30pm Bottle
5pm 1/2 meal-pot & pudding or 3/4 meal pot with out pudd (she would normally have a bottle some time too!)
7:30pm bed bottle...

She does take water in between meal times too...is this right?!?!?

Thanks

 

[Kimboowee]

I would like to know this

My LO is on 3 meals a day and 6 bottles....One per meal and one inbetween

 

[Mum2b_Claire]

You shouldn't replace any milk feeds with solids until your baby is 6m.

 

[mamalove]

I think at 6 months they should have 3 meals and 3-4 bottles. You shouldn't replace before then.
I'm hoping this will work for us,because they have numerous bottles during the day and we go through 4 cartons of milk every week. I'm exhausted from making up all the bottles ALL DAY LONG.

 

[sophie85]

My LO is on 3 meals a day and 4 bottles she is 5 months old. She was on 5 bottles but HV told me she should be on 4. Tho i still add extra milk into her food etc as i was worried she wasnt getting enough milk. xx
she also has a bottle with her solids i havent yet given her water instead of milk... x

 

[katycam]

Austin has 3 meals a day and 2 bottles

 

[ruth222]

Do you ever give up the feed before bed or is that always carried through and eventually (12 months change to cows milk)