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Time to drop from 4 to 3 bottles?
« on: December 02, 2012, 04:23:09 am »

My 8th month old twins are now getting 3 solid meals a day. They are currently still getting 4 bottles. Before we started doing the 3 solids a day they would drink 7 oz each bottle. Now it is difficult to get them to finish 5-6oz. When and how do I know it is time to drop to 3 bottles? What does that look like? This is their current routine:

7-wake and bottle
8:30-solids
9:30ish -Nap
11/11:30-bottle
12:30/1- solids
2/2:30-Nap
3:30/4-bottle
5:30-solids
7-bottle
7:30-bed

It seems like when they wake up from their 2nd nap until bedtime, I am trying to cram in 2 bottles and dinner in such a short amount of time. 

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Re: Time to drop from 4 to 3 bottles?
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2012, 02:27:17 am »
For sure you can try 3 bottles... DD was about this age as well... once we got to 3 meals of solids, it was kinda cramped at the end of the day!

So we did:

Wake and bottle of 8 ozs
Solids about 90 mins later
Nap #1
Lunch
Bottle and nap #2 (bottle 8 ozs about 15 mins before nap)
Dinner
Bottle 8 ozs and BT



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Re: Time to drop from 4 to 3 bottles?
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2012, 03:52:56 am »
I don't know what I would do without the help I get on this forum! Thank you!! We will try moving to 3 bottles and see how it goes.

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Re: Time to drop from 4 to 3 bottles?
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2012, 04:14:21 am »
Give it a few days and let me know how it goes ;)



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Re: Time to drop from 4 to 3 bottles?
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2012, 02:07:25 am »
We might be ready for this switch too.  Sometimes DS wakes from his afternoon nap as late as 5pm, then I am trying to feed him when he wakes and again at 7:30pm...so squished together, and his BT bottle only ends up being about 4oz because he had a 7oz bottle only 2.5hrs earlier.

We might try going to 3 too :)



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Re: Time to drop from 4 to 3 bottles?
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2012, 04:19:25 am »
Give it a try Lindsay - intake often goes up :)



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Re: Time to drop from 4 to 3 bottles?
« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2012, 05:26:04 am »
Wake and bottle of 8 ozsSolids about 90 mins laterNap #1LunchBottle and nap #2 (bottle 8 ozs about 15 mins before nap)DinnerBottle 8 ozs and BT

We have been doing basically this for a couple of months too and it's working well.