Transitioning to milk - keeping LO fed enough

izziebee

Hi, DS2 is going on 11 months and I'm going to start transitioning him to milk in a few weeks.
Right now, he has 4 8oz bottles of formula a day - somewhere between 3-6:30am (depending on if he wakes up or not during the night), lunch @ 11am (daycare), afternoon snack @ 4pm (daycare) then bedtime @ 7:30/8pm. Outside of that he has a sippy with water at breakfast (daycare) and dinner. (not that he drinks much of it, he's just learning the hang of it)

My question is how often and how much are you feeding LO WCM now that you have switched over (and I guess this is for those of you with LO's closer to a year old)?

With the way that DS drinks I just can't imagine cutting his milk down all that much - I know I can't give him 32oz of milk a day like he's doing with formula but I fear he'll be starving! DS1 never drank as much as DS2 does, he was much more into solids so I never really had issues that I can remember. Plus, DS1 was sleeping through the night by now and if he did wake it wasn't to eat where DS2 will wake in the middle of the night starving - last night he woke at 10pm and I had to give him 4 more oz which is highly unusual but still! I just don't know how to keep this kid satisfied!

Thanks so much!

Sunnyalj

My LO has naturally cut down to 4 4oz bottle of formula in the last month or so... She will be a year in a couple weeks. I have started adding a sippy of milk with meals as well just for her to get used to. I don't know how I'm going to get her off the bottle though, sorry I can't be more helpful. I can relate though

izziebee

Estwd2 said:

It doesn't look like you're offering breakfast or a morning snack. I'd start by offering more food. The schedule we've had for DD since she turned one is... 6:30 breakfast with milk 9:00 snack 11:30 lunch with milk 3:00 snack 6:30 dinner with milk 7:00 bed She gets water whenever she wants throughout the day. To get him past waking in the middle of the night, I'd start sleep training stat.

Sorry, he does get breakfast and morning snack, both are served at daycare - he just doesn't get a bottle with it, he gets water. He also gets dinner around 6pm with water.

And I agree on the sleep training... I think that's the key here. We started this a couple of nights ago...really hoping it clicks with him soon, I'm exhausted!