I have been wondering lately what to do with Philip and his milk/bottles and am looking for advice to what everyone else is doing.

At the moment Philip is having a bottle first thing (about 7.15am) with 6oz of cows milk, although often he only drinks 3-4 oz, then has a bit of milk on his cereal about 8.45am after dropping other 2 at school. During the day he has a couple of cups of tea with milk and then bedtime he has 7oz of cows milk which he often drains and has another 3-4oz on top. This is alongside mid-morning fruit, lunch, biscuit mid-afternoon and dinner with pudding of some sort. My question is do i need to be giving him a bottle in the morning or should i change the routine and give him breakfast at 7am with glasses of milk during the day? Also am I overfeeding him? Not sure what to do for the best!

Thank you x

Brendan has a bottle with milk in when he wakes up at about 7am, then he has breakfast around 8am as he isn't interested before that. During the day he drinks very dilute cordial from one of those 360 cup things that let you sip from the rim. I don't trust him with a cup unless he is in his high chair! I usually give him a yogurt or something at about 11am and then he has a nap for about an hour and a half. When he wakes up we have lunch, could be scrambled egg, tuna mayo with bread (he doesn't do sandwiches!), baked beans on toast, that type of thing. If he seems hungry in the afternoon I usually give him some dried fruit in a bowl or a biscuit if I have been able to do some baking. We have dinner when hubby gets home and sometimes Bren hardly eats anything, other times he clears his plate. We don't often have a pudding but I usually offer Brendan some fruit which he loves. Then he has his bath and then another bottle of milk before bed.

I think as long as he seems happy and healthy don't worry too much about over feeding. Brendans cousin (who is 4 months younger) eats loads more than him but they are the same size and both slim.

I have considered giving Bren his milk in a cup rather than a bottle in the morning and night but he seems to like the comfort of it and I can't see it is doing too much harm so I will leave it for now. xx

Oakley has 1 bottle in the morning and 1 at night. Will move him onto ff milk soon. I have also given him a few 1yr+ cow and gate milk as it has the extra iron and vits as he has gone off his food esp hot dinners and is mainly eating bread, jam and fruit at the min.

Well we stopped Elijah's bottles a few months ago as he was using as a dummy and having them all the time. But since then we have introduced some back as he really gets comfort from the bottle, and i dont think it hurts.
He has 7ozs of cows milk at naptime and then 7oz at bedtime. Sometimes he might have a bit more on top if he doesnt sleep straight away. And then in the day he might have one bottle of milk mid afternoon when hes watching something on tv.
Like Bren, Elijah sometimes eats lots, but more recently is not eating alot at all. I think i might be giving him too many snacks but i find it hard like you Pootle to figure out how much he should be eating! xx

Rhys started refusing a bottle before he was even 12 months and we really struggle getting milk into him. He'll occasionally have a beaker of warm milk before bed, but most of the time if he's offered milk he has a few sips and that's it.

He usually has a bowl of porridge in the morning with fruit chopped into it. At least 1 piece of fruit mid morning (sometimes 2 he loves his fruit) or some strips of cheese. For lunch he usually has something like a sandwich, cheese on toast, beans on toast. Usually has a mid afternoon snack too then tea usually followed by a yoghurt or fruit.

He's snacking a lot more at the minute as I'm just constantly hungry and picking at bits, rather than eating proper meals, so everytime I eat he wants something and I just feel awful if I say no to him and eat in front of him. But the plus side of that is that I'm trying to munch on healthy snacks instead of biscuits and chocolates as I don't want Rhys to be having lots of rubbish.
The good stuff gets saved for once he's gone to bed the cruel mummy I am ha ha.

Gracie also has 2 bottles, one at bed and one in the morning. I don't see any harm, but will probably change the bottle to a soft sports top one once she's settled in her bed.
She has breakfast about 8.30ish, snack mid morning, lunch, snack if i remember lol, then tea and a supper biscuit (cos of the boys) b4 her milk.
Sounds like you're doing what's normal Pootle!

Becci it sounds like Holly is the same as Rhys, she has never ever liked milk, we had to battle with her to take formula and cows milk is no different. She has no bottles and if you put milk in her cup she just screams and shouts and refuses to drink any! Occasionally she will drink warm milk if it has milkshake in it!

Fin has about 7oz cows milk in morning - i do this so i can stay in bed for 20mins longer whilst he lays with me and drinks it - lol! then he has breakie about 8am - has creamy baby porridge with yogurt... wont eat normal porridge but i dont care as has all vitamins and starts the day off good! he usually asks for fruit after and is loving oranges at the mo!

then i am naughty cause i nibble all the time so he does too - biscuits, crisps etc... he doesnt have a lot but he will have a bicci if i have one (10) and some of my crisps...

then lunch he hardly eats as doesnt eat sandwiches and so he may have cheese, ham, toast, spag hoops then a custard pot.

then tea will tend to eat what we have or part of it anyway like the meat - he loves meat............... or he has macaroini cheese, pizza, or something i have frozen.

bedtime bottle he is going off - he used to down 7oz but since going in bed he has an oz and thats about it and then asks to go bed...bless him!

so i have boight some neskwik and after tea or in avo i sit him in chair and he has a made up milkshake i only pit a scoop in of the powder rather than the 3 they say and he has a straw....

so i think with the morning bottle, milkshake, yogurt and cheese he has enough.............

i would say every day is sooo different with fin he will sometimes eat and eat and surprise us but others he isnt bothered just wants to play!

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Floyd loves his milk but will only drink it warm and out of a bottle... i stopped his morning bottle just after 12months, he has 9oz cows milk at night time and sometimes asks for more if he wakes up in the night he will sometimes want more n ill give him 4oz, then in the morning he'll have weetabix or readybrek with warm milk about 11ish as he wakes up 10-10.30 then has his lunch about 1.30 and will have a couple of buscuits in the afternoon then dinner at 5.30 and has 2yogurts after. ii wouldnt say your over feeding him he doesnt need his bottle in the morning so if you did want to change it to earlier breakfast then thatt would be fine, ii have thought about stopping floyds night time bottle but he really loves it so am not goin to worry too much about it!!
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Jack stopped his bottles at about 11 months and wouldnt entertain milk at all. Only just got him back on about 2 cups a day now but only if i put a little bit of chocolate nesquick in it! Hes healthy enough and eats lots if dairy to make up for it!

Cole is dead good with milk - he's gone on to cows milk fine and then goatsm ilk and now lacto-free milk with no trouble. He has milk sometimes before bed, sometimes he wants juice, sometimes he'll ahve milk mid morning and mid afternoon sometimes he won't but he always has some when he wakes in the night. glad I'm not the only one who resorts to choc nesquik if I want him to drink milk Works a treat!

Used the nesquik to get him drinking milk out of sippy cups too lol! If he drinks choc milk out of a cup he can drink normal milk lol! Only has bottles through the night now and I'm not planning on changing that as its less messy!

Thank you all, have been panicing about silly things lately! Certainly sounds like he's average in his milk etc! Don't want to change the routine if i can help it for the time being as milk on wake up suits us, if i had to give him breakfast first thing i think i'd lose the plot, i don't do mornings!

zachariah still has a good helping of toddler milk morning and night, he loves the stuff and it's all good for him so am not too bothered by it. had originally intended to stop at 2 though but tbh, on the whole he's pretty hesalthy so not stopping it just yet.
As for breakfast he's awful. he's just too lazy to chew in the morning so its either porridge (adult stuff with cow milk) or yoghurts! (or sometimes it's actually a nutrigrain!!!!!!!!!!!! )
i'm not worried though as he eats fantastically for lunch and dinner whether its olives(!) or mushrooms he munches it down, thankfully!