Reducing number of bottle feeds

DD is nearly 1 and is on 3 solid meals + snacks + 3 240ml bottles per day -she rarely finishes the bottles so I am wondering when do we reduce the number of bottles per day and to how much??

I am in the process of trying to wean her onto finger foods but with only four teeth it is taking longer and she is quite fussy.

Any tips on that would be great as well!

Thanks

She drinks water with every meal & has further drinks during the day.

I am unsure what I should be giving her for lunches etc? Dinner I struggle with as dp works nights so I an home alone, I get home from work, then need to feed & bath her before I get a chance to get anything sorted for myself :(

I was quite worried about how I was going to cut out the extra bottle and couldn't figure it out but it's dropped out as naturally as all the others. Now she'll very nearly drain her morning and night bottle (250ml cows milk) instead of drinking maybe 150ml of each one. Don't worry just yet, it'll happen

Also Plunket has a sheet with different examples of finger foods that are ok to give, just having a look some examples are:

mandarin, kiwifruit, rice crackers, peach slices, pears, rice biscuits, bread sticks, raisins, sandwiches, pasta, cheese, peas, apple, cucumber, processed cheese, fish fingers, crackers, seedless grapes (halved), dried apricots, grated cheese, mouse traps (which judging by the pic looks like toast slice cut into 3 or 4 strips with marmite), avocado, prunes, pineapple rings, gruit biscuits, banana, broccoli, celery, carrots, nectarine, luncheon, cheese slices, orange...

Lily's had everything off that list and sometimes we have last night's left over dinner heated up.

You could give her a jar of food and feed about 75% and let her try spoon feed the rest, or you could feed her the jar and let her try feed herself the steamed veges or whatever you make while you guys eat.

We do BLW, so DD has exactly what we eat, just a smaller portion for her. Last week I did steamed red cod seasoned with lemon and dill and steamed carrots, courgettes, potato, orange kumara and broccoli and she ate the lot! Have put some pics up in the BLW photo album if you want to have a nosey at what others give their babies, pretty much imo once you start finger foods it's like BLW.

I'm not sure when Plunket recommends finger foods, it's about 9mo isn't it?

My PN didn't know what I was talking about either but she was glad at the 9mo check that DD was eating finger foods.

So far I've found it to be just trial and error. We haven't had any choking or gagging yet. And I've found they're more interested if they see you doing it too