Hi there.
DD is 5 months old exactly and EBF. She weighs 13lb 4. She feeds on demand, usually about 6-8 times during the day and 2-4 at night. She goes to sleep at about 8pm then wakes at about 1am, 4am and 7am (on a good night! It can be every hour after 1am).
I've just spent a few days with two friends with babies who are around the same age as DD. Both boys are formula fed, weigh over 16lbs and are sleeping right through the night from 8.30pm until 8.30am. Cue a lot of judgy comments about how I am raising DD. Both friends think it's weird that I don't feed every four hours on the dot and put this down to DD not sleeping through the night and gaining weight slowly. One friend even told me that having no feeding routine is actually bad for DD and that her 'snacking' means she is never really hungry so will never feed properly.
I was always convinced that I was doing the right thing re: DD and feeding and put down the non sleeping through to being something that will pass when she's ready. But now I'm beginning to feel a bit worried, especially by her weight gain. She weighed 8lbs2 when she was born so she is still a couple of lbs away from doubling her birth weight which admittedly I thought she would have done by now.
I would like some others' perspective on what they do regarding feeding on demand. Does anyone have any tips of how I could help DD gain weight more quickly? I'm not in the UK and everyone I talk to here formula feeds every four hours from 1 month and weans at 4 and so everyone I talk to just suggests I go onto formula or wean. I know there is nothing wrong with ff but I want to continue breastfeeding; it's very important to me.
Thanks.
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Feeding on demand, slow weight gain, judgy friends....argh...
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tertle · 16/08/2014 07:57
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