Stopped wanting bottle

[lilybug25]

My Lo is 8 months and for the last 1-2 weeks has not been finishing her bottles. We are again trying to weaning the DF so her 4 bottle should be 8oz but she has been drinking 5oz-7oz tops. She loves her solids and will fuss and even cry if I try to give her less, i have tried lessing her soilds for more milk and all it did was make her fuss pretty much all day and start NW again. I am not a night person so after 2 nights of this I said forget this. She gets 3 meals a day of 12 teaspoons pre feed. I know that before 1 year they are suppose to have more milk then solids but Shes not listening to that!!!! she is in the 94% for her age group and has always been a big eatter and up until this did drink her bottles dry. Should I just start giving her 6oz bottles keep her food the same and not be worried?

[lilybug25]

Another thing i just thought of. I live in Alberta Canada and there is so much smoke in the air from all the forest fires in B.C, I feel sick and am not hungry at all ( feel sick to my stomach all the time). Could this be worsening the situation?

[Lolly]

She needs a minimum of 20oz a day and that can include the dairy in her food. If she has 4 bottles of 5oz then she is getting what she needs and you can add more milk/cheese etc to her food to add to it. As long as she is getting her minimum amount then I would leave her bottles as they are for a while and see how she does. It could be that she is starting to make the move to 3 bottles a day so if her day bottles start to drop further you may need to consolidate them into 1 bottle.

For now I would leave her bottles and food as they are - if she is used to taking bigger bottles and you offer less it won't be there for her if she does want to take more. I know throwing formula is a pain though - I dread to think how many oz have gone down my sink .

What do you think?

Laura

[lilybug25]

well knowing that 20oz is the minimum is great to hear and a Hugh relief as well. On a bad day she takes 22-23 ozs and hear I'm thinking shes dying of hunger lol. I hadn't thought of going to just 3 bottles. we are yet again trying to wean DF(we are down to 3oz at 9pm, so little more then a week to go ) i know this is going to sound retarted but how do you do 3 bottles? What i mean is whats the routine for it?

[Lolly]

I would keep things as they are until you have finished the DF wean and let her settle into her routine with no DF - she may well take a bit more because of that!

We went to 3 bottles early with my DD because she was refusing milk due to her reflux so around 10 months is the usual time for dropping to 3 bottles. When she was on 3 bottles she was doing

Wake up - bottle then breakfast 1-1.5 hours after
Nap
Lunch
Bottle - around 2/2.30
Nap
Tea
Bath/bottle/bed

If she had a short nap in the morning I would sometimes offer a snack and the afternoon bottle depended a bit on her morning nap, I tried to get it before her nap but sometimes it came after.

HTH!

Laura

[lilybug25]

Total Duh moment, I was talking to DH about this and he was like, didn't we go through this when she was 3.5 months? I looked back in her baby journal and sure enough there it was, time to switch nipples. I could slap myself on the head for not thinking of this sooner. So I switched from fast flowing nipples to tri-cut today and BAM, EVERY BOTTLE DRANK NO FUSSING!!! Can't believe it was something so simple but live and learn I guess

[Lolly]

That's babies for you . Glad you have a simple answer!

Laura