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Offline shinysarah

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When do you drop the bottles?
« on: April 11, 2009, 10:15:47 am »
Whe do you start to drop the bottles?? My 6.5 eats like this currently...
7am bottle
8am solid
11am bottle
12 pm solid
3pm bottle
4pm solid
7pm bottle
10pm bottle (2-3oz)
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Re: When do you drop the bottles?
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2009, 10:20:36 am »
our feedign routine is basically the same as yours at the moment
I am waiting for Alex's cues to tell me he is ready to drop a bottle- Sophie dropped one around 7.5mo. Basically she cut right back on the amount she was taking from each bottle, sometimes as little as 2oz. That's when I dropped the 11am bottle and she went back to taking 7-8oz from each.
If he hasn't dropped a bottle himself by 9mo then I shall do it anyway!
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Re: When do you drop the bottles?
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2009, 10:27:32 am »
Yes, same happened with my DS at about 8 months - he started drinking only 3 or so ounces, maybe three or four days in a row, from his 11am and 3pm bottles. Then a few days later even started cutting down to 6oz at his 7am and 7pm. I dropped the 11 and 3, instead giving milk right before his nap at about 1pm, and he started taking the full 8 ounces from the three bottles.  I would wait until your LO starts decreasing the amount s/he takes in the mid-day bottles and then combine them into one.

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Re: When do you drop the bottles?
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2009, 11:33:39 am »
Thank you!  :)
He has basically cut back and is taking roughly 5-8 oz at his 11 and 3 feed, and he has also cut down the df to 2-3 oz so Im thinking he could maybe do without this but tried last week and had a truly horrendous night so Im too much of a chicken to do it again until he's on 3 proper meals a day!

Im also concerned that the df is starting to disturb his sleep as he's started to wake after his df and half heartedly cry for 15 minutes!!


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Re: When do you drop the bottles?
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2009, 11:43:23 am »
I would wait until the DF is cut out before you cut the daytime bottles.  Once you cut the DF, he should make up those extra 3 ounces in the day.  When my DS started only taking a few ounces at his DF, I started moving it earlier - so 9pm one night, 845, then 830 and then just stopped it. 

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Re: When do you drop the bottles?
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2009, 07:59:27 am »
Was your lo on 3 meals a day when you dropped the df?
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