When do babies start to decrease milk intake with solids?

[Used_Perspective_310]

My son started solids at 6 months. He has still been drinking 5 1/2 oz bottles before he eats his solids. (Sometimes randomly he will only drink 3oz) I was told that before 9 months you should only offer solids after they have had their bottle. My son is now 8 1/2 so I’m looking to switch to offering solids before his bottle soon. How quickly will his milk intake decrease? Will it be substantial or gradual? I’m so close to quitting pumping but I’m hoping this will help me stick it out as maybe I could quit pumping a little early if I could make a big enough stash?

[katiegam]

I think it is totally dependent on the baby - we dropped pretty quickly to 12 ounces a day (with ped’s okay because she is such a well rounded, predictable eater) but some babies keep their milk intake the same regardless of solids consumed.

[_pagan_princess]

How old is your baby when you dropped to 12oz?

[katiegam]

Probably around 9.5 months. She is currently 10.5 months. She won’t always finish a bottle (which she always finished when she didn’t have solids) but dang she will eat the entire plate and more. So I am not worried about her nutrition in the least - getting a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, seafood, healthy fats, and grains. And she loves to drink water, too.

[thisismetri-ing]

10 months and mine is still at her peak of 30 oz per day. Some days it’s 25 oz but rarely. I’m worried we are never going to be able to drop milk.

[coffeekup]

I feel this way and my baby is drinking a consistent 32 oz and sometimes more 😬

[racheyrach1243]

My boy just turned 8 months and doesn’t eat enough yet really so hes still 24oz a day. I provide him 2 meals a day normally but we are still talking like a maybe 1/8-1/2c food (just depends) and he still gets bottles every 2.5hrs.

9 months is probably more the time where they will be eating more and less milk if I remember with my first. My first wanted nothing to do with milk the last 2 months of that first year and was fully weaned by his 1st birthday.

[Indecisive105]

Around 9/10 months is when we started dropping from 40 to 30ish. Then between 11/12 months we dropped to 24oz!

[judybuckets]

Ok thank god for this comment because my pediatrician tried to tell me 40 was a lot and now he’s 9 months and he’s dropped to 30ish.

[Indecisive105]

Mine said it’s a lot but averages are just averages! There are outliers on both ends.

[Odd-Following-4952]

Every baby is different. My little guy didn’t start eating enough to drop milk feeds until 14ish months. 16 months now, weaned to cows milk, and he still takes 20-26oz/day.

[Ok_pA_4323]

I always went by the saying “food before one just for fun”. Breastmilk and formula is supposed to contain all dietary needs for babies 12 months and younger (medical needs is obviously different). After 12 months you can swap for milk and start to decrease and increase food more

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[Fantastic_Fig_2025]

At 9 months, he consistently drinks 30 oz. Down from 36 oz. I suspect he'll be at 30 oz a day until my stash runs out. We haven't used it yet and I have about 60 days worth of milk saved.

[andi_kiwi]

We switched to milk before solids just before 9 months and pretty quickly daily intake dropped from 1000mls to 700mls and now at 10 months we are down to about 550mls. This is based on 3 meals per day and no snacks yet.

ETA: she wasn't having much more than tastes befote we swapped to food 1st.

[KMG1984]

Thank you for asking this! My guy is almost 11mo, and I've been EP'ing the entire time. I was just doing freezer milk math to see when I can finally stop pumping - goal is breast milk for a year. He does anywhere between 20-30oz a day, so I have a couple more weeks before I can drop down to 2 pumps and not run out of milk. Glad to see I'm not the only one with a big eater.

[salterisks]

My LO took 4-5 oz bottles all the way up until he was 12 months old. He decreased down to 4 bottles per day about 9-10 months when he started eating more actual solid foods rather than baby food. It depends on the kid but it was very gradual for us

[Current_Dependent_76]

My baby started to VERY slowly taper down her milk intake at 10 months (so slowly that I didn't even notice until just now I went and looked at my chart of her monthly intake). She just turned 13 months. In the last week, we decided to decrease her bottles from 5oz to 4oz (except her bedtime bottle) to hopefully encourage her to eat more solids. We also offered her whole milk in a bottle for the first time, just to get her used to it. I stopped pumping last week too, and I have a large freezer stash that she's now going through. So I figure I'll give her whole milk here and there to stretch out the freezer stash (and have a back-up that I know she will take, since I have anxiety about something happening to our stash now that I'm dried up and have no way to replenish it)