9 month old--amount of bottles

[mariarico]

hello

My LO drinks 4 bottles of breast milk per day.
 but i'm not sure if i should be dropping down to 3? people are telling me that is too young. I prefer breast milk over solids, but she kind of fights me on the 5pm bottle.

she wants her 5pm bottle now at 6pm, but that is so close to bedtime bottle. if i cut out the 6pm bottle, i find she cries and wants it by 6ish.

her A time is about 3 hr 45min-4 hrs, morning is a bit shorter

7- wake up
7:30am- 6-7oz breast milk
8:30-solids puree--1/2 jar (hates textured food)
10:30-12 nap

12-wake
12:30- 6-7oz breast milk
1:30- 1/2 jar
4-5pm nap

5:15pm- only about 4oz---but doesn't want it until 5:45-6pm...that is tooooo close to night time before bed bottle
6pm- 1/2 jar

8pm- bottle before bed--- 4 oz again

8:30pm- bed

[ZacsMumme]

Could you offer a little less for the lunchtime bottle? Then she may take a bit more at 5 ish.
Is that shoulder age really so you can defiantly try three bottles, and see how she goes. I 'think' when switching to 3 bottles you switch solids and milk around so solids, then milk x

[*Kara*]

Agree with Sara... you can certainly move her to 3 bottles at this age.  I would allow her to increase solids a bit more as well - half a jar is really very little.  Over the next two months, breast milk is going to transition from being a food to being a drink with her food. 

Could you offer an 8 oz bottle to her?  If so, go ahead and move to 3 bottles of 7-8 ozs each, like this:

Wake and bottle of BM
Solids breakfast (allow her a jar and some finger foods too) - you really don't need to limit her solids at all anymore, let her eat until she is full.
Nap #1
Wake and solids lunch with water in a sippy to drink
Bottle about 15 mins before nap
Nap #2
Solids dinner - same as previously suggested - don't limit her and just follow her lead.
Bedtime bottle and off she goes

Do you think this could work for her?