Hello all, my DS is 9 weeks and has seemed quite settled on 3 hourly feeds for a while (used to be 2/ 2and a 1/2). In the last few days, when I've got him up for a feed, he doesn't really seem ready for it but I am somewhat afraid - and that is the right word - of leaving it longer to try. Am I being a stresshead? It's just that I've seen soo many posts saying how 3 hours is a long time for a tiny one etc.
I should clarify - when I say '3 hours' I mean, 3 hours sine the start of a feed; we seem to take ages to do a feed as he sometimes fusses, can't concentrate on feeding with a wet nappy, is very! windy so needs burping often. All told, if I start feeding at say 10, we don't usually finish until around 11 (exception is night-time feeds, which take 20-40 mins).
At the moment, he does a 7ish feed, then a 10ish but his 1ish feed has been slipping later til about 2, then we do a mega feed session before bath and bed - we can be on and off for up to two hours between 5 and 7. I wake him up for an 11pm feed, which is generally very poor, doesn't seem to take much at all. Then he wakes me for a 3.30 or 4 am feed, which are usually very good - lots of concentrated sucking. Is this enough?
Should say, he wees lots and does a lot of poo, though sometimes we can be 18 hours without a poo before he does a mega poo (not so much 'the size of a £2 coin' as a full on bank raid). I'm not sure about his weight gain, as I've not had him weighed since five week. This is because the HV at the time plotted his chart incorrectly and had me really upset and scared (we saw her right in the middle of the 6week growth spurt, so of course I was already worrying about my ability to feed him enough). Once I'd had some sleep and a think, I thought, f**k it, I can see he's growing well; he's a happy baby, doing all the right development things, he's not dehydrated and he settles well for sleeps. So I'll not have him weighed for a while.
Anyway, just feeling slightly fragile - is it okay for these gaps between feeds at this age? Am I right to think if I think he seems happy and satisfied, and is weeing and pooing and outgrowing his clothes, bath etc. I should not worry?