We have started our just over six month old on solids over the past couple of weeks and he is very enthusiastic about food! He has cereal made with ebm in the morning, some sort of veg/fruit with carbs and sometimes fish at lunch and then steamed veg with some bread and tahini/peanut butter in the evening.
I also breastfeed him when he wakes in the morning then again about 11am, 2pm, 5pm, then a small bottle (40ml ish) of ebm about 7pm and then a feed before bed about 9pm.
All of his feeds have got shorter and I wonder if i should stop offering him some of his breast feeds and see if he feeds for longer at the other ones? I am not keen to stop breast feeding him, as I don't have to go back to work for another six months and I am absolutely convinced of the benefits of continuing to feed. That said, I don't want to overfeed! Also he is quite easily distracted when feeding and don't want to confuse this with a desire to drop a feed or two.
Am I over thinking it? Will he simply not feed if he doesn't want to, will this be my cue to stop?
Any advice would be grand, thank you!
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KittieCat · 16/06/2011 12:56
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