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Posted: 02 March 2006 at 8:00pm | IP Logged

I just wondered how many drinks of milk your lo has in a day..

Ella is 10.5 months and has an 8oz bottle at breakfast (some goes on her weetabix), juice mid morning and with her lunch, about 5oz after her pm sleep, juice with tea, then up until Saturday last, 9-10oz at bed time. However, since Saturday, we've struggled to get her to drink 3oz at bed time!

She's teething and I know that knocks everything about, but I wondered if I should knock the pm feed on the head to encourage her to drink more at night. She still has a feed overnight - usually about 10.30/11ish - but only 2oz. Just enough to get her to take her meds and make her swallow to clear her ears. After that when she wakes, she has water.

Juice wise - she probably drinks a total of 3 or 4 oz in a day.

Just wondered what your los do drink wise?

Posted: 02 March 2006 at 8:07pm | IP Logged

madam has 7oz milk when she wakes up, then I make another 4oz milk to make her breakfast with and she drinks the rest with her breakfast..  for the rest of the day she just drinks water (inc with her meals), and then has about 7-8oz milk when she goes to bed..

I definitely found that when she/I dropped her afternoon bottle she drank more milk at bedtime - before that, she only used to drink 5oz tops

she doesn't have a milk feed in the night anymore either..

Posted: 03 March 2006 at 8:29pm | IP Logged

Louis has about 3oz on his cereal then at about 9.30-10am he has a 7oz bottle he has another 7oz bottle at about 1.30-2.00pm for nap time then has his 7oz bed bottle at 6pm

he has anywhere between 2-6oz of water throughout the day

Posted: 03 March 2006 at 9:18pm | IP Logged

Ellie has an 8oz bottle at breakfast time, then I offer her a bottle mid afternoon but she normally only takes a few oz then her last bottle is at bedtime - tonight she took about 6-7oz I think, some nights its only 3-4oz, and other nights she'll drink the whole lot.

She has juice with her lunch and tea but I wouldn't say she has a lot - just a few sips each meal.

Posted: 03 March 2006 at 9:29pm | IP Logged

tom usually has 2 bottles: one in the morning and one in the evening.

saying that he's teething and going through a growth spurt atm so he's having an extra bottle late afternoon.

he gets 210ml formula, and he drinks lots of water.

hth. zo xx

Posted: 05 March 2006 at 1:48pm | IP Logged

well in the morning she had her ready break and then she wll only have about 2oz of milk and at lunchtime she will have juce with her lunch about 4oz and then at bed time it could very from 4oz to 10oz, kim had 6oz just befor bed and she woke up at 12:30 and she had another 6oz so with kim it all verys

ems

Posted: 05 March 2006 at 3:01pm | IP Logged

hello - Roan  my ds (10.5 months) has about 20oz of sma gold - from 3 bottles - 8am, 3pm & 6pm - drinks water in between - as not tried juice yet

sleeps 7-7 plus has his morning nap for 1-2 hrs at 11 - he's very regular!!

may drop the 3pm bottle tho

Posted: 05 March 2006 at 3:24pm | IP Logged

8 oz when he wakes up

1 5-6 oz in the day 1

8 oz before bed and juice or water in between

HelenC