Advice on going to 3 meals when milk intake is already low

He’s nearly 9 months and still on 2 meals, he only takes between 12-18oz of milk a day. When I I increased to 3 meals his milk went even lower so I reduced back to 2 meals. Do i just keep at 2 meals for now to make sure he’s getting his milk? All I see is all these babies on 3 meals and drinking over24oz 😬😬

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Dont panic! My almost 9 month old has never been a huge formula drinker (breastfed until 13 weeks before refusing) only ever on 4-6oz 4 times a day. Since blw at 6 months, his forumla intake went down! He's been on 3 meals a day for 2 months because hes a huge foodie. I make sure he has everything he needs in meals, and plenty of extra dairy (except drinking cows milk as thats not advised until 1 year) he also has 5-6oz of water a day. With formula im lucky to get 12-18oz in him, and ive tried everything! But at the end of the day, as long as baby is gaining weight and having plenty of wet nappies, its fine. From 9 months they tend to drop a bottle anyway. Dont panic, hun!

Our LO is 9.5m (and also teething at the moment). She had a grand total of 10oz today 🤦‍♀️

I also make sure to try and include as much as I can in the foods I give her, lots of dairy, fats, iron, etc.

Some babies just prefer food and self-wean earlier.

Just look on the brightside.. when it comes to fully weaning them off milk, I don't think we'll be having any issues with it!

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