DS2 is 7.5 months and is EBF. He can't actually have normal formula as we discovered when weaning hin that he is allergic to cows milk protein. We started weaning at 6 months with a mixture of purées and finger foods, as we did with my eldest. It has gone well - he is now eating three good meals a day. He has water with his meals, but no other drinks.
Over the last 2 weeks he has been dropping breastfeeds very rapidly. In the last 48 hours he has only actually breastfed three times. I have tried to feed him, I offer him a feed before solids, and he won't have it - he just arches his back and cries. The only good feed he is getting is the one when he wakes up at around 6am! Part of it is that he gets easily distracted, I think, but it's worrying me as he has no dairy in his diet. I find expressing very hard, so I have been giving him oat milk on his porridge, but that is the only dairy substitute he gets and it's not the same as cow's milk in terms of calorie density or vitamins.
We are seeing a paediatrician next week about his allergy and I'm hoping they will prescribe an alternative formula he can at least have in food instead of cow's milk. But I had hoped to continue breastfeeding for his milk feeds until a year. Is it normal for babies of his age to do this? My milk supply has massively dropped, I can tell, and it's worrying me that he is going to self wean entirely.
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Baby hardly breastfeeding at 7 months
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SpanielFace · 04/09/2016 08:39
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