The thing is with Liberty, is that she has never had an instant appetite for milk in the morning so I have always missed taht opportunity to get a good few ounces down her! When ds was a baby he gulped down that first bottle of the day but dd manages just a couple of ounces! However, she will chomp on a piece of toast for ages! Unfortuntately ulike ds, dd has never had a very predictable routine and I have always found myself offerring her milk every coule of hours and hoping she'll want some becasue she rarely crys for it! She has been having some solids at breakfast and tea time and occasionlaly at lunch time too. I supose sometimes her bottles do run close to her solids but i have to just go with the flow because she will not take anything she doesn't want, when she doesn't want it. (I am sure she is praciticing for her toddle tantrums when you offer her a bottlea nd she doesn't wnat it! LOL) So, the short answer to your question is sometimes she has her solids close to her milk and other time she doesn't! Anyway, thank you again for your advice, when I get a minute I will continue to read all you past posts and send you that recipe.