How much milk does a one year and eight month old baby need

Babies are the top priority of every family, and the baby's physical condition is an issue that parents can pay attention to. As babies grow up, their body functions are constantly changing. At the same time, the baby's diet is also changing. Complementary foods are constantly being added, and the amount of milk will decrease accordingly. So how much milk does a one year and eight month old baby need?

To be precise, it is milk once when you wake up and before going to bed, complementary food or fruit once in the morning and afternoon, and staple food for three meals a day. You can arrange the staple food according to your nutritional needs. For example, for breakfast, you can have dumplings, noodles, buns, steamed buns or bread, and for lunch or dinner, you can eat rice (you can use bone soup or chicken soup to cook the rice, and it will taste better if you add some carrots, etc.). You also need to have vegetables and soup every day. If he wants to eat dumplings, noodles or thick porridge, that's fine too. The times of the three main meals are the same as those for adults. A one-year and eight-month-old baby’s teeth cannot chew too big things, so you need to cut the vegetables for the baby into smaller pieces. Prepare more black fungus, shiitake mushrooms, fish, lean meat, tofu, chicken, duck or pork liver and other foods necessary for his physical development.

A one year and eight month old baby usually drinks three times a day, with a total amount of about 540-900ML. The amount of milk varies from person to person. Some babies have a good appetite and need more milk.

Rehabilitation guidance: Babies aged one year and eight months should mainly eat, with milk as a supplement. Eat a diversified diet, combining dry and liquid foods, coarse and fine foods, meat and vegetables, and develop good eating habits, and do not be partial or picky about food.

As babies grow older, they will drink milk less and less frequently, and the amount of milk they drink will also gradually decrease, so parents don’t have to worry about their babies not being full, they just change their diet. The three meals a day are no longer mainly based on milk, but he eats rice like us adults.