7 month old comfort sucking = overfeeding?

[LeosMum10]

Hello, I posted a few weeks ago about my 6.5 (now nearly 7) month old DS wanting to nurse/comfort suck all the time and especially to sleep. After some helpful advice and more thought, we decided to go with the flow a bit longer and hope DS grows out of it.

Only problem is, I worry that he is overfeeding especially at night. He has 3 or 4 full milk feeds in the night (cos he feeds when he comfort sucks, and he wakes at 1am, 3/4am and 5/6am), in addition to still feeding every 2-3 hours during the day (so it's not like he's having to top up at night). He's putting on weight well and is healthy BUT his poops are often very thin, greenish, he's very gassy - all of which I think can be a result of oversupply issues? I block nurse during the day (switching boobs every 4 hours) but still a bit worried that he's feeding too often. He's just starting to get interested in solids but not enough to reduce his milk intake much.

Can anyone tell me if overfeeding/feeding too frequently is something I should worry about? Maybe I shouldn't switch boobs in the night at all? Any advice appreciated. Thanks a lot.

At that age I was starting to restrict night feeds a bit - going down from 10 minutes or so to 5, and feeding more in the day. At 7 months though babies are still getting most of their nutrition from milk - it takes a while for solids to start taking over. DD was nearly 10 months before she stopped having bfeeds at night (could probably have stopped before then because it was down to two or three minutes three times a night, but I wasn't all that fussed.)

His poos don't sound quite right, though - are they like that all the time? You can get some peculiar results when you introduce solids!

I don't think you can overfeed a bf baby unless there are medical issues.

It took 2 months of big meals before my DS started to reduce his milk intake, and 3 months later it's not reducd that much.

I reduced my 7 m.o. DS's night feeds by resettling without feeding as he'd started waking after every sleep cycle to help him get off again, not because he was hungry. He went from 6-7 feedings down to 1. Some people find this doesn't work unless their DH does it.