How much milk?

I think someone recently asked this either in this forum or the first years forum...
I have read different things regarding milk, to give anywhere from 16 to 24 oz...we do 24 oz of formula right now.

I'm just confused as to how much to give, and do i give it with the meals, and how much per meal, and do I do some in the early morning when they wake at 6, but breakfast isnt til 8!?

I see on a "sample" schedule i have on the fridge, 8 oz for bkfast, lunch, dinner...or do i break it up and do maybe 6 for each meal and thats it? or do i let them have a few oz in the early morning?

Why do i make everything so hard! They are already 75th percentile and I'm so paranoid about making them too fat, but don't want them to starve either!

 

We are now on sippy cups of milk and I do 6 oz. 4 times a day. One at breakfast, lunch and dinner plus a snack in the afternoon. Could you move breakfast earlier, like 7am? I don't feed my girls right when they wake up. I let them play for a little while. If not, you could do a small sippy when they wake up and then another small sippy at breakfast. You'll figure it out. We were all over the place with it and have finally figured it out. We were doing formula in sippy cups for a while now, so we just substituted milk instead.

 

Mine drink between 12-16 ounces of BM a day. The pediatrician was happy with this. We do water with meals and sippys of milk in the morning and around 5.

 

I have been told between 16-24 oz as well, mine will drink between 12-16 oz. You can also add in yogurt, cheeses, any other dairy to their milk total.
We give a 6oz sippy of milk in the morning, they usually don't finish it and finish it around lunch. We offer water sippies during the day. They will usually drain an 8-9oz sippy of milk before bedtime and we usually supplement with yogurt, cheese, etc. It's the best we can do with milk for our two, they tolerate it but aren't it's biggest fans.