6 mo bf baby hardly feeds in day

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Can't believe I'm posting on here again but I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced this.

For the past week or so (and it was already slowing before that) ds has only fed about 3 times during the day. So I think today after an early-hours feed which I still would count as a night feed (we co-sleep so not exactly sure when it was) I think he fed at about 9.30am, 1pm and 4.30pm and then his bedtime feed just now at about 7ish. All fairly short feeds but then he's always been quite a fast feeder.

He is a big boy and has always put on weight well and we have been BLW for a few weeks now. Although he really enjoys food and seems to know exactly what to do with it, I can't imagine he is getting that much in yet from a food point of view.

He still is feeding quite a lot at night, has actually been waking for 2 supposed dream feeds and then maybe 2 or 3 feeds in the main body of the night.

He never wants to feed when he first wakes up and I can not get him to feed more in the day if he doesn't want to but feeding has never been such a comfort thing for him, more a necessity (many previous posts have explained!) and he often much prefers his dummy.

Anyway, I have just been getting a bit worried about his hydration during the day as his nappies really aren't very wet, although his overnight nappy is usually very heavy.

I have posted before about how to get him to feed more during the day to reduce the night time feeds but I just don't know how it's ever going to happen if he will barely feed enough to stay hydrated in the day and just refuses all other offers, getting really quite cross about it.

Anyway this has turned into one of those silly posts where there is no real question being asked so apologies...it just feels so strange that he hardly feeds at all and just wondered if anyone else had a similar experience.

Regarding the night nappy, do you change the nappy at all or is it the same nappy all night? I'm just asking for perspective sake as my 7.5 m/o DD wears a size up bigger nappy all night and then I change them regularly during the day so the day ones of course seem much "drier" IYKWIM?

How are his poos? With regards BLW, sometimes babies can be ingesting a lot more than it seems they are. I have been very surprised by my DD's poos since we started BLW.

As for the night feeds, I wasn't quite clear how many feeds he actually wakes up for. Is it 4/5 in total?

No it's the same nappy all night and it does feel pretty much full in the morning. And daytime nappies, I only change him probably 3 times but they're all only a little bit wet (like barely any squidgy but at all). Poos are only every other day on average but have pretty much always been like that after newborn stage.

And with regard to night-time, we have recently been doing one, maybe two boob about 7-ish, he has sometimes been waking again about an hour and a half later for another feed, then again about half ten when I go to bed, then an average of 2-3 more feeds. He just doesn't feed for comfort- much prefers his dummy for that (we have various issues inc. a posterior tongue tie and fast milk flow) and has a full feed each time he wakes.