Milk intake

Hello! Has anyone else noticed that their baby just isn’t as interested in milk in the day or not wanting much at all?

I offer milk before, during and in between solids. It feels like every part of the day I’m giving her either milk or food 😅 I bottle feed with expressed milk but sometimes my baby only wants 50ml or so. It just worries me that she isn’t having enough?

To top it off, she has recently started to wake up every 2-3 hours at night for a feed 😴 which makes me think she is making up for her lack of daytime milk, even though it feels like I’m constantly encouraging it during the day!

Anyone else? 💗

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Yes! It’s totally normal around this age, we’ve since tried rocking baby to sleep again in the night as the milk is mostly for comfort and that’s worked. Now I offer 1 8oz in the morning and 1 before bed (8oz) potentially a third bottle in the day if they’re unwell etc for comfort or off their food but I feel like this has happened in the past couple of weeks gradually! Whenever I offer milk he turns it away or has about 2oz!

Mine is the same. Just had our 10 month review and weight is totally fine, so it's probably just developmental (mine really seems to be getting better at actually consuming the solids we give her). But if you're still comcerned, do reach out to your hv.

Yess, i had this conversation with our HV yesterday and she said as long as he’s getting 15oz a day its fine. My boy is on 3 meals a day too and drinks up to 6oz of water x

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