Dropping a bottle - from four to three...

My girls are almost ten months corrected, actually close to 13 months.
We do four bottles a day at 7, 11, 3:30 and bedtime. Three of four are before their three meals.
They eat amazingly well, they almost exclusively feed themselves and eat all variety of foods, I am very lucky.
I am noticing that they sometimes don't seem to take much of their afternoon snack bottle, they actually prefer
a snack like MumMums or Cheerios or fruit or whatever.
Wondering if I should get rid of that 3:30 bottle then, and hope they absorb the volume into the other three bottles?
Would it be appropriate to offer sippy cup with a snack then? Should I try formula in the sippy cup or just water?
I'm pretty sure they could take a couple more ounces with their 11:00 or bedtime bottles.
Thanks Mamas!

 

You didn't say how many ounces they are taking in each bottle. I definitely don't think it would hurt them to do 1 sippy with either water or formula with their afternoon snack.

 

All of my kids kept four formula/milk bottles/sippies until 15ish mos. Then I switched that mid afternoon sippy to water. Their overall intake is more important than how many bottles/sippies they have so give it a try!

 

I'd drop the 3:30 bottle and do a sippy with a little bit of water in it with a snack at that time.

 

I agree!

 

I would try it in a sippy and see if they take it. I agree it makes a different in how many ozs. My boys never drank enough formula for me to cut any back. We were still on 5 at 10 months, but they were only 4 ozs if I was lucky. Maybe a call to their pedi to find out how many ozs a day they should be getting?

 

Ditto it's more about how much than how often. My 9/10 months my oldest dd was on 3 8oz bottles a day. And those bottles were full up to the top