7th Month Old Won't Drink More than 20 oz formula

[peyton]

My 7th month old simply refuses to drink more than 4.5 or 5 oz. of formula at each feeding and consumes only about 20 oz of formula during the daytime hours. She is on solids twice a day (morning and afternoon).
 
Schedule:
7 a.m.    4-5 oz formula
11 a.m.  2 oz formula with 4 T dry cereal & 1/2 large jar fruit
3 p.m.    4-5 oz formula
5:00       2 oz formula with 4 T dry cereal & 1/2 large jar veggie
7:30       4-5 oz formula
1-2 a.m.!!  4-5 oz formula

My problem is that she is waking in the middle of the night for a feed and appears hungry.  If I can't get her to consume more during the day, how can I get her to stop waking in the middle of night hungry?

[Noelle]

Maybe try adding to the solids?  Does she wake the same time everynight?  If so, it could just be out of habit...

[Fiona (Leah & Kians Mom)]

Hi There,
My dd was the same and gave up bottles completely at about 6.5 months. I too would say try adding more solids, I did a small breakfast of cereal with milk, lunch about 12.30 of veg, tiny snack at 3-3.30pm and tea which at that age was cereal with milk or rusks with milk at 6pm, this way I made sure she got her milk intake and food intake at night before bed, bed time was 7.30pm,
Fiona

[notenoughshelfspace]

Agree with all the above posts; the minimum your baby should be taking at this age is 16oz as long as he is getting the solids.