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Toddlers should be offered 6 – 8 drinks per
day, but more may be needed in hot weather and if they are very active. A drink should be offered at each meal, and once in
between meals –with a snack if one is being given.
A portion of fluid (drink) counts as: 100-120mls (3-4 ozs) of any drink (including milk) or soup. A 200-240mls (6-8 ozs) bottle of milk is 2 portions.
Toddlers need less milk than they did in their first year of life, and bottles of milk should be discontinued by about 12 months. Toddlers who continue to drink bottles of milk are usually filling themselves up on milk and leaving less room for iron rich foods and many go on to have iron deficiency anaemia.
A portion of fluid (drink) counts as: 100-120mls (3-4 ozs) of any drink (including milk) or soup. A 200-240mls (6-8 ozs) bottle of milk is 2 portions.
Toddlers need less milk than they did in their first year of life, and bottles of milk should be discontinued by about 12 months. Toddlers who continue to drink bottles of milk are usually filling themselves up on milk and leaving less room for iron rich foods and many go on to have iron deficiency anaemia.