Bottles and whole milk

jannv11 · July 2010

DS is totally on whole milk now but I'm having a hard time cutting back the number of ozs a day. With formula he was still doing about 28-30 oz a day. And now he have been doing just whole milk for about 2 weeks and he is wanting more than the 18-20 oz that the dr told us to give him. We push food and I've even added small meals and snacks between meals b/c he must not be getting enough if he wants the bottles.

What's your bottle schedule and how many ounces?? DS does 8 oz @ wakeup, 6 oz @ naptime, 4 oz in the afternoon (which is the bottle I am trying to drop), and 8 oz @ bedtime = 26 oz which is too much!!!

kristie06 · July 2010

We are off the bottle completely and around 16-18oz of whole milk a day. LO gets a cup of milk in the morning around 6:30 (about 5 oz) with some cheerios. He eats breakfast at daycare around 8:30, lunch at 11:30 with 6oz of milk, dinner at 6pm with 5 oz. He also has water available to him all day as much as he wants. He doesn't drink all the oz at one time, he will have a little, eat and then have a little more. I wouldn't want to sit and chug 8oz of milk all at one time (unless I have oreos with it) so this works out perfect for us.

sarcole530 · July 2010

We give him breakfast in the morning- usually something like whole wheat toast with jelly or yogurt and a banana, etc. He gets milk or juice with his breakfast- usually he will drink about 3oz with breakfast.

For snack he has things like peaches, cottage cheese, etc., with water.

For lunch he will have a fruit, vegetable and a "main entree" such as macaroni and cheese or a hot dog. He drinks about 3oz of milk with lunch.

He will have another snack between lunch and dinner.

For dinner he has something along the same lines as what he had for lunch, with another 3-4oz of milk.

The only time we give him an actual bottle is right before bed. We give him 8oz of whole milk so he has a nice full tummy before bed.

jenn_darrin1515 · July 2010

My girls are on whole milk and still on bottles (although I am going for all sippy cups tomorrow...we'll see how that goes) I would aim for cutting hte number of oz. he is getting berfore trying to cut the # of bottles...

At 1 year the girls were taking 6 oz/formula/feeding - 5 times a day...we just started giving them only 4 oz. of milk/5 times a day...which = 20 oz./day..Our schedule is:

6:30 - bottle w/cheerios

7:30 breakfast

9am - bottle

10:30 bottle w/snack

12:30 lunch

1:30 bottle

3pm snack

5pm bottle

6pm dinner

the 9am & 1:30 pm bottles are the ones b4 naps and I am very afraid of cutting them...eh...we will see how it goes...

healthynut · July 2010

We are in the process of reducing the amount of bottles. I just dropped the one before nap. Before I dropped it, though, I started reducing how much milk was in it. I would give a nice big lunch and then give the bottle soon afterwards so that they were not too hungry and wouldn't miss having a lot of milk. Then I just started only giving the sippy with cold milk at lunch and skipping the bottle all together before naptime. The schedule now is:

Breakfast: 6:30 - sippy cup with breakfast and they each drink about an ounce or two, sometimes a little more for DD

7:30 - bottle: I put in about 6 ounces (it used to be 8)

9:30/10ish: snack and sippy cup with either water or milk- again, they each drink about an ounce or two of the cold milk

12 -lunch - offer sippy cup towards end - usually drink about an ounce

3pm - snack - sippy cup - they usually drink about four ounces at this point - I think it's b/c they don't get the bottle before naptime.

5pm - dinner - sippy cup with either water or milk depending on what they had with morning snack

6pm - bottle - 6 ounces.

Then we brush teeth and are sleeping by 7ish. They usually end up with about 20 ounces or so.

katypresson · July 2010

We are doing 2 bottles/day now. They are 9 oz bottles so he's getting 18 ounces total per day. We give him one at naptime (he only takes one nap) and one at bedtime. He gets water in the sippy all through the day and with meals. I had to add a snack around 4pm to replace a bottle and now I give him breakfast as soon as he gets up.

ljeckes · July 2010

DD gets 8 oz of whole milk right away in the morning (7:30ish).

About 8 or 8:30 she'll have breakfast with water or juice - that varies depending on her mood just like anyone else. (She's not too big on juice so when she does drink it, we make it count with Mott's Medley or even V8 splash so she's getting fruits & veggies).

She naps from 10 until about 11:30 or noon then she eats lunch, again with water or juice. Another small nap around 2:30 for 45 minutes then a snack about 4.

She eats dinner with us about 6 or 6:30 with a few oz of milk and some water. The only bottle she gets is 8 oz of whole milk right before bed so she sleeps the 12-13 hours we're all used to. Big Smile

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