My daughter is 1. Is now a good time to stop her daytime bottle feeds? She is drinking milk with her breakfast and has plenty of dairy products throughout the day?.

A Thank you for your question. Now your daughter is one year old she needs approximately one pint of formula milk per day alongside a varied diet. These are rough guidelines though and your daughter will soon let you know if she is having too many or too little feeds. Another thing to bear is that after age of one your daughter can move from drinking formula milk to full-fat cow's milk. The food standards agency recommends the following, to help you understand which milk can be used at which age range:

Full-fat milk isn't suitable as a drink until your baby is a year old. This is because it doesn't contain the right balance of nutrients to meet your baby's needs.
Semi-skimmed milk isn't suitable as a drink for children under two. But you can introduce it from two years old, if your child is a good eater and has a varied diet.
Skimmed milk isn't suitable for children under five years old.

http://www.eatwell.gov.uk/agesandstages/baby/weaning/

http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4117080

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