6,5 mth old cutting down on milk!

[*Julie*]

  Hi everyone,
 Daniella is 6,5 mths old and has started to cut down on milk.
 Our health visitor said to me that because D was a large baby to start with (8lbs 7 1/2oz) and grew accordingly very fast, it was ok to start her on solids earlier, 4,5mths perhaps. And she was right, Danni was well ready for it.
  So for 2 mths she`s been on solids and has been taking around 6 oz a feed (plus pureed food)
But recently she started cutting down on milk, so to get her to take even 5 oz is a struggle - she fights the bottle!
   Schedule.
 8am - wake up and breakfast- milk,baby cereal
 12pm-lunch - milk, veg puree and yogurt/or fruit puree
 4pm - dinner -milk, veg/or fruit puree/or yogurt
 8pm - milk and bed.
Until recently she also had a dream feed at 11-11.30pm, but I stopped bothering because she wouldn`t take it!
 I haven`t weighed her for a while but she`s about the size of an average 9-month-old (in comparison and clothes sizes!) and has always been in the highest percentile scale. I am not surprised she eats her food well, but wondering why she is not taking her milk. She takes certain bottles better than others - morning ones normally get finished and the 8pm ones too.
   Should I cut out a [solid] meal or reduce amounts of puree she has? Must say she doesn`t have a lot - 3tbsp at a time max.
    Can anyone help?

[grahamsmama]

I'll bet she is distracted since she takes the am and night ones ok.  I would space out the bottles from the food and make sure you offer the milk first, you're probably doing that already.  The only meal I might make smaller is the 12pm one, to increase her appetite for her 4pm milk, since the 8pm one is ok anyway.  Is there anyway you could make the bottles she likes bigger by an ounce, then you don't have to worry so much about the middle of the day ones.  That's what I ended up doing with Meghan because she wouldn't eat the 2 middle bottles well at all.  So, I gave her 7oz in the am, 4 at each of the middle ones and 8oz in the evening.