Confused with NHS guidance on weaning and milk

I was wondering the same…since she was 5 months old, my little girl has been so disinterested in her milk. She’s definitely a foodie rather than a milk lover, so we’ve upper her to 3 meals and 3 daytime bottles now. But she’s still waking in the night to feed (at least once) which makes me wonder if her daytime milk intake is impacting her sleep?🙃🙃🙃

I offer solids and then milk

Sometimes bottle 5am
Wake-up 6:30/7am
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Breakfast 8am
Bottle & sleep 10am
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Lunch 12pm
Bottle & sleep 1pm
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Snack 2pm
Bottle & sleep 4pm
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Dinner 5:30pm
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Bedtime & Bottle 7:30pm

I've been feeling a bit confused about the milk and solids thing recently too, I often feel like I'm giving her milk for the sake of it just so she can have solids. She's breastfed so we don't really have any kind of schedule she just has it when she wants it but meal times need to be a bit more on set times particularly dinner to get bedtime on track and often I'm like well dinner is 5:30 so you need milk at 5 when she doesn't necessarily want it and then only drinks for a couple of mins
She's also massively decreased how much expressed milk she has before bed, pre solids she'd have 6oz, dropped to about 4.5oz and now she just about has 2-2.5oz but will sleep until 1am before waking most nights so I assume she can't really be hungry from not taking much milk before bed.
Also in the mornings, she wakes about 5am has a good feed and then goes back to sleep until about 7 when she wakes then she doesn't want milk and I feel like I'm trying desperately to get her to take some again just so she can have breakfast

I’d noticed that on the nhs website too about the milk before solids but then if you speak to a HV they say milk first and they work for the nhs 🤷🏼‍♀️I feel like the guidelines are literally just guidelines and depends who you talk to! The last hv I spoke to just said “there’s no rules they’ll do what they want and only drink what they want so don’t stress” which made me feel better but then I think a dietician would say different! Im struggling to fit bottles in at the right time with naps moving, I can’t wait til they’re only eating food 😂

My girl refuses milk half the time cause she’s waiting for solids.
She usually wakes around 7:30am and a 5oz bottle, 9am breakfast.
Nap.
Then she has like lunch, I give fruit and yogurt usually and a small bottle but usually refused it.
Then nap around 2pm.
Then again dinner and then before bed at 7:30 she has a 7/8oz bottle

We switched to breakfast before milk at 9 months just because he wasn’t taking the bottle as proactively, but does before his first nap - same with dropping his afternoon bottle, was totally led by him as he was having like 60ml and then refusing the rest. I don’t think you can really get it wrong, as long as baby is getting Nutrition (like if they’re taking plenty of solids then fine to have a dip in milk) x

My baby dropped his morning bottle near enough as soon as we started solids. So now he has a bottle in the night around 3am and then breakfast around 8 and then his 2nd bottle of the day around 10/11 after his morning nap. But I’m yet to introduce lunch which I need to start doing soon. But it really confuses me too, like this food is only fun before 1 is annoying because it’s gonna get to a point where it’s not for fun anymore lol

This annoys me too! On one hand they’re meant to be exploring food and milk is more important but on the other they’re meant to be on 3 meals per day and cows milk only from 12 months.
We are on 3 meals a day but the plan is to increase the volume of food gradually so we are able to drop an afternoon bottle. The whole thing is a minefield isn’t it!

My little girl is a massive foodie! She’s 9 months tomorrow and has been uninterested in milk for what feels like forever🤣 think we upped her to 3 meals a day at about 7 and half months and 3 bottles a day with 210ml milk and even then she was never really finishing a full bottle apart from her bedtime one.

Spoke to a HV and she said it’s perfectly normal for milk intake to drop when they start solids and to just follow baby. Try making food and incorporate formula so she will have a weetabix in the morning with 90ml formula. Then she said as long as she’s getting over 500ml that’s fine but if she’s not getting over 500 then to give Vit D. We also stopped giving a bottle first thing when she wakes up she now has breakfast and her first bottle at 10am when she’s goes for a nap and she finishes the whole thing. We just calculate how much milk she has through the day and if it’s under 500ml we’ll add a vitamin drop to her bedtime bottle if she’s drank over 500ml then it’s fine x

Iv literally spent all morning googling this 😂 my little girl is 8 months and is sleeping through the night so I expected her to be really hungry when she wakes up but when I give her the first bottle she always leaves about 2/3 oz, so today I gave her breakfast first and then her first bottle before her first nap (8:30/9am) and she drank it all, she’s just so much more interested in solids than she is milk. I think it’s just doing what works for you and your baby!