When do babies stop drinking formula milk?
If your baby isn’t eating any solids (if he’s younger than 4 to 6 months, he shouldn’t be), the rule of thumb is to offer him 2.5 ounces of formula per pound of body weight each day. So if your baby weighs 6 pounds, you’ll give him about 15 ounces of formula in a 24-hour period. If he weighs 10 pounds, he should drink about 25 ounces in a 24-hour period. Consider your baby’s age How much formula your baby needs depends not only on his weight but also on his age. Let his hunger guide you. As a general guideline: Most new babies want to eat every two to three hours. (Start with 1 or 2 ounces at each feeding for the first week, then work up to 2 to 4 ounces.) As your baby gets older — and his tummy gets bigger — he’ll drink fewer bottles a day with more formula in each. In a couple of months, for example, he may be down to six to eight bottles of 4 to 6 ounces each every 24 hours. By 4 months, he’ll probably drop to four or five bottles of 6 or 7 ounces each, and by his half birthday he’l
when my son was your daughter’s age he was on 3 aswell, then at 12 mths I cut it to 2, one before morning nap and one before bedtime the afternoon one was replaced by a large whole milk yoghurt, (he wouldnt drink cows milk on its own) now hes 17mths and he has just gone off formula himself over the past few weeks, so ive started giving him cows milk and he is drinking it quite happily, but he only gets it in a bottle before bed (I clean his teeth afterwards) I have also replaced the morning bottle with a whole milk yoghurt and he drinks water with meals etc
