Top Highlights

• The majority of babies will be having 2–3 milk drinks a day at one year of age and need a minimum of 350ml (12oz) of milk each day, inclusive of milk used in cooking and on cereal.
• Note: A ‘cube’ is equivalent to approximately one level tablespoon.
• Many babies will take a full feed at 10pm, then wake up and only take a small milk feed at breakfast time – they then demand a big milk feed at 11am and refuse solids at this time. They then proceed to demand a further big feed at 2.30pm. When this situation occurs it can be very tempting just to cut
• out the 10pm feed altogether so that the baby wakes up and takes a full feed at 7am.
• In my experience the simplest way to do this is to accept that, for a couple of weeks, your baby needs more at 10pm, but look to cut down the amount of milk he has at 11am and 2.30pm quite severely. This will encourage him to eat more solids after the 11am milk feed, and be more ready for solids in the evening. Once he starts to take a reasonable a...