Ff&weaning...

[pugh]

Cross posting from sleep& weaning thread.

Dc is almost 8mo. Ff and on ~ 4x 7oz bottles a day. But he as also been waking up more frequent at night& drinking a lot.

Eg y'day eve:
7oz at bedttime1930 ish
6oz when he woke at 2330
6oz at 3am
Up at 630.

Little milk at 7 & mo surprise not interested in breakfast.

Weaning since 6mo. Combo of purees& finger food. And what we are having eg rice with sauce&added cream/cheese while he has pieces of meat to 'eat'(suck on!) himself' pasta & sauce, homemade quiche/omelette.

Am I giving him too much milk&so his appetite is too poor?

Am I not giving enough calories as he can't get enough in w BLW?

Should I rather not feed during the night. Try boiled water?

Also posted on sleep thread:could this be sleep regression/developmental phase? Been trying to get him back in the habit of self settling with varying success.

Any advice welcome!

Sorry I haven't really got any advice as my LO is four months old, have you spoken to your HV?

You must be exhausted! I would try to cut back the night time feeding. Water. Yes sir! But make sure you're offering enough day time milk, food and water. From memory, we had 3 bottles a day at this stage, and some friends had 4 a day, as well as meals.

Oh me too! DS is 9mo. He's always had reflux so he's never been able to take large amounts of milk in one go which has meant night feeding for longer than I'd expected (given his siblings). Our day looks a bit like this:

6/7 - 5oz
8 - porridge
10 - 5oz (not every day)
11.30 - lunch (proper hot dinner ie fish/cottage pie or similar)
2 - 5oz
4.30 - tea (trying to make this his finger food meal - he's just discovered fish fingers...)
6 - 5oz
10 - 5oz

Somtimes he wakes in the night wanting milk but not so much anymore but last night he had a bottle at 6, 9 and 12. Drained them all. What's that about?!

I offer water with all meals but he's not all that impressed with it!