Suddenly dropping milk feeds... help!

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Hello all :)

I wonder if you can help me :think: Jacob is 10 months old now and over the past couple of weeks he has lost a lot of interest in his milk feeds :shock: He used to have 7oz at 8am, 3pm and 7pm but now i'm lucky if he'll drink 4oz in the morning, he's not interested in his 3pm bottle but before bed he will have between 7 and 9oz but altogether during the day he's dropped quite a bit of milk!

He has 3 meals a day and I do try to give him lots of dairy so i'm hoping he will be ok. The HV says that he should still be having around 20oz of milk a day but I can't force him to drink it!

Anyone else's baby suddenly do this with milk? It seems all he wants now is FOOD!!! :lol:
 
Same here. She has 4 milk feeds a day but would gladly only have two. I just have to make sure that for her bottle in the morning she has it a good bit before her breakfast and the same for the lunchtime one. She won't take the lunchtime one any earlier and she won't take it with her lunch either because all she wants is food so I can't win! I think she's going to drop the one she gets at 3-4pm very soon though so will just make sure and try to get some down her at mealtimes too.
 
Yep Evie did exactly the same thing. She now has 5oz bottle in a morning and between 7-9oz at night.

They do need 20oz of milk per day...but that doesn't all have to be formula/breast milk. You can add yoghurt, cheese, milk in their food etc and that counts as part of the 20oz per day.

I was really stressed out by Evie not drinking milk but she's still gaining weight and is healthy so now I don't let it bother me anymore. I give her plenty of dairy in her food and I also give her vitamin drops...

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leland just dropped his 3pm bottle too , its weird , he only now had 8oz in morning when he gets up and 8oz before bed :shock:
 
Thanks for your replies ladies :hug: It's a relief that it's happening to others too!

Pilkers... I didn't realise that the 20oz didn't have to be formula/breast milk :doh: Jacob has around 4oz of cows milk in his breakfast, a yoghurt every day and cheese spead, sauce etc When I make meals I sometimes add cows milk too :) Oh I think he'll be fine :lol:

Isn't it funny how you panic when something changes with your baby? :oops: :lol:
 
Full of hope! said:
Pilkers... I didn't realise that the 20oz didn't have to be formula/breast milk

neither did I until my HV explained it. I was obsessive about the amount of milk she had and everything was stressing me out because I was terrified she wasn't having anywhere near enough... now I realise she is probably having over the 20oz average per day


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As im bf its harder to for me to know how much dd has but i know its not as much as she probaly should shes down to 2/3 feeds a day :? despite me offereing her the breast 4/5 times.
 

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