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Solids, Milk intake and sleeping.......Confused mum here!

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fairysnuff · 14/03/2007 22:37

Have just started DD onto solids. Only one week in and only just gave her lunch and dinner today. Mainly been giving her fruit, but also gave her come cauliflower and sweet potato today. Just incase any of that helps with my main question

She has really started to lose interest in my milk??
Mainly spends her time popping off to smile up at me. I am sure she is only taking about half what she normally does in some feeds.
I am a little worried that she is not getting enough?

She wakes up at 4 ish for a good feed (this is relatively new, only been happening for a month or so) Then another about 7.
At 9.30 or so she is up for the day. I will try to give her a bit of a feed now(mainly cos I am leaking) but she isn't really interested. Then she will take a feed about 11.30-12 and a snooze. We missed this today in favour of lunch. I tried to give her a feed about 2ish but she just played. She did the same at 5ish. Then dinner at 6.30 and her evening feed, a really good one though, at 8.

Am I doing ok?
I guess she will be a little fuller with the solids but I thought they wouldn't really make that much difference to her milk intake this soon?
I mean that was nearly 5 hours between the good morning feed and a bit of fruit, then two small milk feeds in a 5 hour stretch between lunch and dinner.

Then again, she is still sleeping as well as she has for a month now.
I know that giving solids doesn't necessarily help with the sleeping through either, but I guess I still hoped it would, will it, eventually?
Is it cos she is still hungry?

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puffling · 14/03/2007 22:44

I didn't breast feed for long so can only talk in terms of formula intake. However, I would suggest that her 4 am feed is interfering with her day time feeding. She needs to wake up hungry for her morning milk and breakfast. I would either cut that one out, gradually move it later or reduce it.
From what you've said you're feeding her, I don't think the solids will be making a significant difference. The milk will be much more calorific.

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