15 week old sooo distracted when bf

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He prefers to look at anything apart from concentrate on boob! the cat, DD, DH, lights, carpets, etcetera.

So he ends up taking a suck, bobbing off and staring into the distance with his mouth open. Then he catches sight of me and does a huge "there's my mummy" smile. Then he takes another suck, and catches sight of his sister, or the sofa cushion and this goes on for about 30 mins and he only seems to have had about 6-7 proper swallows of my breast milk.

I am combination feeding, which means one bottle a day, and he is going from 6pm to 6am (go baby go!!) so I'm happy with that obviously.

But as he's bobbing around so much the breastfeeds take forever as I have a toddler and therefore am leaping up to rescue cat, TV remote etc. Will he be getting enough? Should I worry about the distraction? Is his little tum full?!?

I've always been a bit anxious about not knowing how much he's getting. I haven't had him weighed, as that tends to make me anxious (I'm a bit wibbly really) but he looks fine, with big smiles, wees and poos. oh, and he is utterly gorgeous of course - {proud mummy emoticon]

Will he always be distracted? How can I stop it apart from sitting in nun like solitude upstairs in a dark room whilst listening to 3 year old downstairs falling off the sofa?

Thank you in advance!

I feel your pain as there were 17 months between my 2 DCs. I found kellymom helpful for advice.

Tbh I put my DD in a travel cot with lots of lovely books and left CBeebies on and went somewhere quite to feed for a short while a lot of the time The other thing I did was toddler proof the lounge drastically. Is there a stairgate on it, so you know your older DC would be safe for a while whilst you fed somewhere quieter?

My only other suggestions are to just try and stay calm and coax them back on over and over or feed more often in the day to try and get those calroies in. However if they're sleeping that well at night and pooing and weeing lots then they must be getting enough imo regardless of the distractability. Perhaps they've also begun to get more efficient at feeding and take more milk quicker then before?

Why not go to a baby clinic to get them weighed just the once, to see how well they're doing on the charts? It would help to ease any worries you have on how much they're getting as you see them soar up the chart? He sounds gorgeous by the way