My DS is 25 weeks and is EBF on demand. He has always liked his milk but would go 2-3 hours through the day between feeds, sometimes more. He sleeps well at night, goes down at 7ish and wakes sometime between 2 and 4 for a feed then back to sleep until around 5 or 6. In the last few weeks, however, he has started to demand milk every hour and a half to two hours during the day. If he hasn't been offered the boob by the two hour mark he is screaming! Many times he'll only go just over an hour. Last week I started to give him a little bit of fruit and vegetables, mainly root veg, pear and banana, to see if that would help prolong the intervals between feeds... it hasn't yet! He will eat the food, and really enjoys it, but then wants milk almost immediately after.
My question is, could it be that my milk is no longer satisfying him and should I perhaps move to a follow on milk or formula for some of his milk feeds? Or is this just normal and at six months the milk is no longer enough, hence the introduction of solids? (I guess that seems obvious, but his desire for more milk even with some solids has surprised me.) As he's six months next week I plan to introduce some protein and carbs which I hope will help and I'd rather stick with BF, simply because I find it so easy now, but it just feels a bit relentless at the moment!
TIA.