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Babies: 9 - 12 Months
Eating 3 solid meals a day - Formula question
I BF DS until he was 7 months old. While he was BF'ing, the most he would take from a bottle was 4 oz. Once we switched to formula, he still does mostly 4oz bottles, except his first bottle of the day is 6oz. Now he's eating 3 solid meals a day and usually he will have some snack stuff too, but he's on average drinking 14-16 oz of formula. I'm sure that's because he's eating so much regular food. I just wanted to see if others are experiencing the same and what you are doing to get enough liquids in and how many ounces of liquids does a 9 month old need? (His 9 month appt isn't until next week) He doesn't really drink from a sippy cup. I've tried to give him one since he was 6 months old, but he just chews on it.
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Re: Eating 3 solid meals a day - Formula question
I have one suggestion about the sippy cup.
Liam did not get how to drink out of a sippy until I took the valve out. With the valve out the liquid was able to flow more freely and he realized that water was supposed to come out. After a week or so of him using the sippy without the valve (and making a mess!) I put the valve back in. When the liquid wouldn't flow out like normal he tried sucking on it and was able to drink.
Ours get alittle less than 28oz a day. 4 bottles of 7 oz formula and 3 solid meals mostly equaling up to 6 tablespoons of baby food at each of their 3 meals. The ped said they would back away from the bottle when they had enough to eat.. so far, they haven't.
DD eats 3 solid meals and gets about 20oz of formula a day- so similar to your LO.
It seems like such a struggle to get her to drink her formula these days.