Started weaning and cutting back on milk too much?

[silverfrog]

Dd2 is 7 months old and bf. HAve been weaning for the last few weeks (mixture of pureed stuff and finger foods) and she seems to be really cutting back on bf and looking for more food.

I always offer milk first, and she drinks what she wants before coming off herself, but seems to have drastically reduced her times on the breast almost overnight. She has also over the last couple of nights all but stopped having a dream feed (which I saw as a good feed to "up"her milk quota at) but is still sleeping through so I guess she reckons she's had enough.

I know that logically I should be happy that she has got herself this far by knowing how much milk she wants, but she is a small baby, with already slow weight gain (although very happy, alert etc so no real worries about that). I suppose I am just conscious of the "milk has more calories than food" thing, and am a little worried that she is getting her balance wrong, but don't know how I can guage how much milk she is taking (dd1 was mix fed by this stage, so could at least know when her milk intake was wavering)

So, I guess my question is, how do I know my totally bf baby is getting enough milk? (funny that, it's the same question I had 6 months ago! )

[whomovedmychocolate]

I wouldn't worry - I think your DD has just got more efficient at nursing - they do that at seven months or so. DD went overnight from nursing 45 minutes to 15 and I fretted terribly - till I got her weighed and realised she was piling on the pounds regardless!