When did you drop a bottle?

[madisonsmum]

Hi,

I have started weaning my son and he is currently on 2 meals a day, as of Saturday it will be 3 meals a day.

I have Annabel Karmel's book and in week 3 of weaning its showing that you can/should? drop a bottle at lunch time and replace it with water or diluted juice.

He currently has 5 bottles a day between 5/7ozs.

What did you do? what would you recommend?

 

[Vickie]

I never dropped any of Hannah's bottles, she kind of did it on her own....

 

[polo_princess]

Im having the same dilemma as you at the moment, Brooke is on 3 meals a day but is still having 5 bottles aswell.

I want her to drop one on her own but give her a nudge in the right direction ... its just choosing which bottle to drop

Hope you manage to sort something

 

[madisonsmum]

I was thinking of dropping the 12pm bottle, but do you eplace it with the same amount in water? or less?

 

[Vickie]

I would think less, offer as much as LO wants though I doubt it'd be nearly as much as a milk feed. Hannah takes a few sips of water at most throughout the day

 

[reallytinyamy]

Chloe dropped her own, one day she had her lunch and just refused her milk and that was it!

 

[ryder]

Jasmine was having 6 huge bottles up until 6 months when she finally started having less... It was frustrating because she has rreflux and all that fluid was making it worse im sure... She still has 30+oz a day.

 

[mell242]

I've cut down on how much I put in each bottle for Stanley. He was having 5 8oz bottles a day, I've cut that down to 6oz bottles and he's just recently dropped a bottle himself so he's down to 4 in total.

 

[alice&bump]

katie's only just dropped a bottle. she's been on 3 meals a day for ages and was on 5 8oz bottles a day too! i'd just leave it up to baby. i know AK books are great for recipes and stuff, but i think with thinks like, you should be doing this by then are crap and you should just leave it up to LO!xx

 

[keelykat]

Elliot's naturally reduced his milk intake himself.

He had three 7oz bottles a day now, but he only had 4 before-i just cut out the one at tea time as he didn't really need it.

 

[Jelly_Tot]

I have just recently dropped aidens lunch time bottle so he is now on 3x8oz bottles a day (morning, tea time && nighttime) he is on 3 meals a day too. My h.v said that by the time he is 8 months he should only be on 2 bottles a day (morning && nighttime) but i go with aiden && he dropped his lunchtime bottle himself as his food intake increased xx

 

[keelykat]

two bottles at 8 months? i don't know many people who have dropped down to two at that stage

 

[Fossey]

ATM we are just dropping oz's per solid feed, and she seems fine doing that. When we start protein next month, im hoping one will be on its way.

 

[xxannxx]

My Lo dropped his own bottles as his food intake increased. I found that when he was eating he was only using the bottle as a drink and so starting putting less in it. Eventually he didn't want it at all, and by 12mths he wasn't using bottles at all and was on a beaker. A friend of mines LO was still taking a bottle at bedtime when she was 15mths. I'd say let your LO guide you as they are all different.

 

[brownhairedmom]

I was really concerned because she was taking solids and still a lot of milk, but she has dropped it naturally by herself. I personally wouldn't cut a bottle myself, I'd just let them have what they want. They won't drink it if they don't need it.