I queried something with my health visitor today and she said to be giving her 600mls per day. As she gained 2lbs in just 2 weeks but she's used to having an average of 884mls a day. Would you try and cut down on the milk or just continue whats working? She's 4 months old. She was gaining weight at a nice steady pace but she's shot up on the centiles in a short frame of space. She's had more than 600mls a day for over a month. So wouldn't even know where or how to do it. HV didn't tell me how just said 600mls. She's not sick or in any pain. She's happy in herself and she knows when she's full as she pulls away from the bottle and doesn't go back. So do I follow what I'm told or just keep doing what am doing?
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Maybe slowly cut back to 800ml see what that does but if your baby isn’t overweight and healthy just keep doing what you are doing all babies are different

I had the opposite. My health visitor kept telling me my little boy was underweight when he was the lighter ended of the weight for his age! All she wanted to do was weigh him, so at 4months I demanded a hospital referral to get her off my case and the consultant agreed my boy was just fine. He said to start weaning and he has since gone from tracking the 9th centile to just below the 50th in a month and half!! 🥹🤭 but he is a tall boy so could do with getting a little bit chunkier.
If youre concerned speak to a GP or paediatric consultant. Health visitors go off the guidelines which isn't the same for every baby 🥰

I dont know if she's just being over cautious as my first born wasn't on any centiles until she was on solids. As we tried everything but she just didnt gain weight and now I have my second who's the complete opposite. Gone from in between 2nd and 9th to 25th

If theyve jumped a whole centile id reduce a bit. Bottle fed babies are really easy to over feed

We started staggering ours so cut down 1oz every other bottle e.g. 6oz then 5oz then 6oz. We did that just to see how she went and she doesnt miss it, so we think we were over feeding her. 🙈 You would just need to work out exactly how much you need to cut down by per day first.