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My LO is 9.5 months and our typical day looks like this:

5:30 AM - nurse
8:30 AM - 3-5 oz of solids and purees
9:00 AM - bottle of BM**
1:00PM - 3-5 oz of solids and purees
1:30 PM - bottle of BM**
3:00 PM - bottle of BM**
6:00 PM - 3-5 oz of solids and purees
7:00 PM - nurse
2:00 AM - nurse
** LO drinks approx 8 oz of BM during these three feedings, but I am unsure how it is broken out since it is with the nanny.

When I was getting ready to go back to work when LO was 8 months, I did a lot of research about how to transistion EBF babies to a bottle. One of the things that stuck in my mind was that with BFing, babies can control the flow of milk, but with a bottle they can't, so they will drink a lot more than they need if they are wanting to comfort suck or something. You might try just reducing how much you are putting in the bottles by an ounce or so and seeing if your LO is still hungry after he finishes it.

Mine is 10 months and currently her schedule is something like this (she takes bottles at daycare and nurses on weekend)

Somewhere between 4:30 and 6am - nurse
7:30 - Oatmeal or cereal and fruit
11 - nurse/bottle
12:30 or 1 - Lunch (usually veggies and grains)
4 - nurse/bottle
6 - dinner (table food)
7 - nurse

Is your baby crawling or cruising yet? I know mine has really slimmed down over the past couple months.

10 months
6:30am: Morning nursing session (no idea how much)
7:30am: Breakfast - pancake, cheese, blueberries
Noon: Lunch - Rice porridge, broccoli, fruit pieces, cheese
4:30pm: Dinner - Sameish as lunch

In between her meals she might have a yogurt or a handful of Cheerios and at each meal she has sips of whole milk.

My LO eats an insane amount of food. But we do BLW so I don't have a lot of measurements for you but I'll do my best. She will be 12 months on the 12th.
She usually wakes around 4 am to nurse
630/7- nurse
7/730- 1 scrambled egg, a handful of cut up fruit or toast & some greek yogurt usually mixed with unsweetened applesauce
10- nurse/snack (fruit pouch, chopped fruit, freeze dried apple...)
12- 1/2 avocado (this never changes, she gets avocado everyday), usually a handful (my hand) of protien & one of fruit or veggies. Occasionally nurse.
3- nurse/snack
6- dinner. Whatever we are having. Usually veggies & protien & some rice or something. She generally gets a mommy sized handful of each & eats a good 90% of it. I usually nurse her immediately after & then she's done for the night

@Bubbles: oh in addition to burning calories, my lo became less interested in food when she learned to crawl and cruise, so it may happen naturally now that he's working on those things...they get too busy

@Bubbles: My LO weighed in at almost 20 lbs. at his 6 month appointment, so I can't imagine what he'll be at his 9 month! We started solids around 7 months and he is FF. I think he eats about the same or more as your LO!:

* 6-7 am - wake up and 8 oz.
* 8:30 - breakfast. Usually 2 slices of avocado, 3 rounds of roasted sweet potato & a few spoonfuls of oatmeal/puree
*11:00 a.m. - wake up from nap, 6 oz bottle
* 3:30 p.m. - wake up from nap, 8 oz bottle
* 5:30 - dinner. Avocado, veggie of the day, and oatmeal/puree
*7:00 p.m. - 8 oz bottle and bed.

So yeah, still at about 30 oz. per day. Our pediatrician told us as he starts to down more solids we should see a decrease in milk. I will say he doesn't wake up in the middle of the night since last week, so that's 4 oz down.

I feel that our LO has just gotten the hang of actually eating food in the past week at 8 months old, so you might see a change soon! I also think once your LO starts moving, it will all even out

Feeding has been one of our biggest issues but for the opposite reason to you. Getting E to eat has been so difficult! You've already had some great advice so I will just send my hugs!

@Bubbles: I don't think you should feel bad! And you don't know that about BF vs FF. Some moms have really plentiful supplies, and especially if they pump and bottle feed during the week, their LOs may be drinking a lot too. My cousin is a WOHM and her 8 month old drinks 8-9 oz bottles of breast milk! He's a tiny guy though. I don't know where he puts it!

@Rubies: I'd ask your doctor! My pediatrician said at our 9 month check up that even with full meals of solids, babies need at least 16 oz of formula or breast milk until they are about 1 year because they need those nutrients. You may have a lot of milk though & she's getting around 8 oz twice a day? If I remember right, you also make chunky LOs!