I have a 12 month old dcb starting with me soon and I need my mind jogged about bottles. My younger daughter was breastfed and the other dcg I had since 12 months old was already off bottles when she started. I bottle fed my older daughter, but she is already 5 years old. So it feels like FOREVER since I have dealt with formula and bottles.

My questions:
1. For a 12 month old how many bottles a day of formula would you be giving during the daycare day? The family told me they give 4 or 5 bottles a day, one with each snack/meal. To me that seems alot, but I could be wrong.

2. I really encourage getting off bottles around 12 months old, by that time I would be encouraging transition to regular milk and eating lots of solids as opposed to eating a bit of finger foods and filling up on formula. Correct?

Help me!