How Much Formula at This Age?

you shouldn't be feeding formula through a bottle or cup. feed it to her in a bowl mixed with the Gerber cereals. She will feel like a big girl and hopefully embrace the new experience. I have five kids and let me tell you, they ALL were different. But one thing that remained the same, feeding habits. Introduce her to other foods if you already haven't and just look how much her attitude changes. Also, tell her how much of a big girl she is by eating out of a bowl just like mommy does. I started feeding formula with cereal to my babies at the 4 months old and feeding jarred food at 5 months. Now 17, 13, 11, 10 & 8, they all love vegetables, even brussle sprouts.

well understand that in a month they are going to want ehr on milk, and that means that she will only be drinking about 2 cups a day and eating more solid food to compensate so there is nothing wrong with increasing the amount of food you give her and only giving her a couple bottles to supplement. whatever you do if she will use a cup for juice don't put milk in her bottle once you take her off formula, you'll end up in the same place you are now. good luck.

My daughter who is now 14-months-old was much the same way. As we transitioned her to whole milk around her first birthday, I started eliminating the bottles she got through the day and put her milk in a sippy cup. She sort of changed her routine by wanting to eat instead of drink her milk first, but as long as she's getting enough dairy, it doesn't matter what order she does things in. We just - in the past week - got her to give up her last remaining bottle of each day, and now gets all of her milk through a sippy.

I would just let her enjoy her milk from the bottle she has the rest of her life to drink from a cup. I never try to push my kids to do what society thinks they should be doing. Like now my 2 yr old has started going to the potty on the real toilet. I was trying to use the small child's training pot and she hated that thing. I placed her on the toilet one time now every time she has to go she says toilet mommy.
Who's to say when she should start drinking from a cup. The other thing you might what to look into is I bought some really expensive cups that were horrible for drinking. My daughter wouldn't drink anything from them. I got some cheap gerber cup snap tops from the grocery store and the problem was solved. She would ask for a bottle during the time we had the expensive cups and it had to be because she couldn't get much from them.

What's W. with her drinking from the bottle? probably the more you try to take it away, the more she's going to try and cling to it. She'll give it up when she's ready!

Honestly, with us, we just took the bottles away and ONLY offered a sippy, eventually they understand that that's all they're going to get and if they're thirsty they'll drink it.
At 11 mths you can start introducing whole milk. We started by 1/2 formula 1/2 milk in the sippys.
Good Luck..
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My personal opinion is to let her enjoy the bottle for awhile longer. I know "they" say have them off the bottle by the time they're 1, but that's just an estimate. A few more months won't hurt anything. My 15 month old daughter still has a morning and bedtime bottle. (Maybe this is more for my benefit-I get lots of snuggle time this way!) We've switched to milk out of a cup during the day, but she doesn't drink as much from the cups as her bottles. She'll adjust soon enough and drink what her body needs. Babies are amazing creatures- they know what they *need.*

All kids vary in how much formula/milk they take each day, but I think at 11 months, my daughter was taking (4) 6oz. bottles, which I believe is pretty average.

Good luck with the transition. Some kids do great, others take a little longer, but it all works out. Enjoy your little one!

J., I saw your response, and I just wanted to let you know that your daughter should not be able to drink out of a regular cup at this point. You've got a long way to go for that! My son is 20 mos old & he's still on sippies. They just can't really control the cup from spilling. He's drinking through a straw now, but even then he still spills. So, don't worry about it. You're doing fine. We just stopped the bottles altogether & after a couple days, he was over it. You just need to do what's comfortable for you.

My son is 20 months old and still takes a bottle in the morning. At all other times he uses a sippy cup. I don't want him to still be using a bottle at age 3 but right now??? who cares? So I say if she wants it in a bottle, let her have it. It's more important that she gets the nutrition. Check out www.babycenter.com. Lot's of great information. I think you have to sign up but it's free and you can opt out of all emails.

Good luck,

C.

Hello J.. If I were you, I wouldn't be so worried about it. Your daughter is 11 months old, and should only be on formula and the bottle for another month. Just one less thing to stress out about. After she turns a year old, then you can just stop giving her both, and then no more worries. I was very lucky, my son went to the sippy pretty good and didn't mind getting off formula, and LOVED milk, well had to put chocolate in it for awhile, but he still drank it. To be honest with you, he stopped taking formula at 11 months, and he's fine, but I know the Dr. and everyone else says a year. I think you're doing a great job to be concerned and good luck. Enjoy everything because it goes so quickly, my son is almost 22 months old and I think he's going on 4 years old the way he acts, makes me want to cry.
Good Luck!!!
V.

Hi J.,
My daughter doctor had her on fomula until she was 1. Then she could switch to Whole Milk until she is 15 months, Then you can cut her back to Low Fat. I was told that thier growing gets slower after 1yr., Then they have solids to make up for the vitamins they got from drinking the formula.
Just keep offering the sippy cup to her. The doctor recommed that we go back to the slow nipple to make it less appleaing to her. It will take for ever for her to get her drink and she will get sick of all the hard work and start taking the sippy cup.
You could ask the doctor if you can start cutting back on formula and start in with a little whole milk? Give her however many bottles of fomula a day the doc says to.
J. don't worry about this it all works out if you keep persistant with it.
The potty training has been the hardest to get through so far.
Good luck and hang in there.