What do you think I should do?

Ok so my lo is now 10.5 months old.

Ever since she was roughly 6 months old she has been drinking 40-50oz of formula a day. (yes its a lot) lol pedi had no issues with it, since she is a very small baby for her age.

We started whole milk at 9 months, and the first week she was doing really good, 1 8oz of whole milk then either 3 or 4 10oz bottles of formula. So she was drinking the same amount of bottles and less formula, which we wanted to do, bring her formula intake down a bit.

Well its almost 2 months later and she is still drinking the same amount of formula 40-50oz a day but is taking 16oz of whole milk a day too.
Plus she eats at least 3-4oz of food in the morning at lunch and at dinner time, with unlimited amounts of snacks in between, like yougurt cereal fruit veggies cheese etc....and so on.

How do I cut out all the formula? Well not all but bring the intake of it down? She also drinks water or juice a few oz a day, not both (we alternate 1 day water 1 day juice)

She is still very tiny and eats a ton, but her weight is not an issue anymore. lol
I dont want to not give them to her obviously, but she just wont get full, kwim?

A little medical backround (in case you dont know) she has Choanal atresia, meaning she has a full blockage in her nose, cant breath through it.
Now all the Dr she has seen has said that she may bee tiny cause she burns more calories (trying to breath) then she is getting. So IDK...the pedi and her diatician as well as myself would like to see her cut down on the formula intake...

So what do you think, if it were your lo would you cut down or just let it be? The older she is getting the more oz she is wanting from whole milk on top of her massive day amount of formula.

Help me please. lol Srry I know its kinda long. lol

The way I cut formula for my children was to start mixing the formula with milk...i did like 6 oz of formula to 2 oz of milk in the bottle...and then every week or 2 I would add a little more milk and less formula until it was straight milk....but beings you already give her straight whole milk...not sure how well that would work for you.

That is so true about her burning calories like that... My daughter was 6wks old and still weighed 6.8lbs due to congestive heart failure ... Get heart was pumping so fast that her drinking her bottle was like running and eating at the same time...so i can imagine your lo not being able to breath so she had to work harder to drink... Other than milk have you tried baby food??maybe that will fill her up a little more like sub it for a bottle of formula?

Quoting DJ, Nick & Emma's mommy:" The way I cut formula for my children was to start mixing the formula with milk...i did like 6 oz of ... [snip!] ... until it was straight milk....but beings you already give her straight whole milk...not sure how well that would work for you."

See thats not the issue, the issue is how much she is drinking. If I cut out the formula all together, she will be drinking 50oz og whole milk a day, maybe even more, the whole milk does not fill her up like formula does. kwim?

when she has her whole milk in her cup, she will have a 10oz bottle within the next hour after, and thats with eating a meal before the bottle.

Quoting Dayton&Bella'sMommy:" That is so true about her burning calories like that... My daughter was 6wks old and still weighed 6.8lbs ... [snip!] ... Other than milk have you tried baby food??maybe that will fill her up a little more like sub it for a bottle of formula?"

Oh she eats table food, no baby food here. She has been on all foods but honey at 6 months of age.

She eats meat and eggs fish, pasta fruits and veggies etc.....she eats a ton

Quoting crazy coupon lady:" See thats not the issue, the issue is how much she is drinking. If I cut out the formula all together, ... [snip!] ... milk in her cup, she will have a 10oz bottle within the next hour after, and thats with eating a meal before the bottle. "

Are you able to put a little rice cereal in it to thicken it up a little to keep her more full longer? not sure if that would be ok because of her condition?

Quoting Dayton&Bella'sMommy:" That is so true about her burning calories like that... My daughter was 6wks old and still weighed 6.8lbs ... [snip!] ... Other than milk have you tried baby food??maybe that will fill her up a little more like sub it for a bottle of formula?"

Ya mine is little too, she was 7lbs 8oz at birth came home at 7days old from the nicu at just a little over 5lbs, at 6 months she was like 9lbs lol at 9 months she was 15lbs but I just did her weight and since we started whole milk she went up to 17lbs so, its working the weight gain on the milk, which is what we wanted, but I figured she would want less formula kwim?

Quoting DJ, Nick & Emma's mommy:" Are you able to put a little rice cereal in it to thicken it up a little to keep her more full longer? not sure if that would be ok because of her condition?"

No, I would never do that at all. I dont do that stuff, she started on real oatmeal at 4 months old, no cereals.

Which she still eats oatmeal, and can eat 4 oz of real steal cut oats lol then follow it with a 10oz bottle. Nothing fills her up. lol

Quoting crazy coupon lady:" No, I would never do that at all. I dont do that stuff, she started on real oatmeal at 4 months old, ... [snip!] ... still eats oatmeal, and can eat 4 oz of real steal cut oats lol then follow it with a 10oz bottle. Nothing fills her up. lol"

lol, I know the feeling...all my kids were pigs and nothing filled them up...my dr had me put rice cereal in their bottles and start baby food at 3-4 months because they ate so much!! and none of them were overweight, they were just big (their height matched with their weight, and people always thought my boys were a lot older than what they really were.....now my daughter was just a tiny peanut and she ate so much but hardly grew....and she is still like that today...lol)
My daughter actually hardly ate baby food, she wanted the real food...lol so at like 6 months she absolutely refused to eat any type of baby food, so we had to mash up whatever we ate...lol

<blockquote><b>Quoting DJ, Nick & Emma's mommy:</b>" lol, I know the feeling...all my kids were pigs and nothing filled them up...my dr had me put rice cereal ... [snip!] ... food...lol so at like 6 months she absolutely refused to eat any type of baby food, so we had to mash up whatever we ate...lol"</blockquote>




Ya my.DD.is just under 26 inches long. We actually went for genetic testing but they are waiting till 2 to.see her again she is just small. Lol my oldests DD half.brother.from her dad is thebsame age has my lo older by a few weeks he was 25 inches at birth lol he is so tall and weighs likeb24 lbs already lol

I don't have any advice   BUT... what is KWIM??

Quoting Fo Shizzle My Nizzle:" I don't have any advice   BUT... what is KWIM??"

know what I mean......I had to ask before too. lol