Callum has started slepping through the night now, he is 20 weeks old, will my supply be affected??

[SparklyDYSONGothKat]

I have had major problems with BF and Callum gaining weight, he has started gaining weight now (with the help of 1 bottle of formula a day) and is now sleeping through the night, but I am worried about my supply. Also how many feeds should he have during the day to keep the weight going up?
Thanks

Sparkly - good news about Callum's weight. You know enough now though to know no one can say 'how many' breastfeeds are needed - this is so individual!

With your history, you're sensible to be concerned about supply. Night time breastfeeding is normally important to build up and maintain a good supply, and long gaps between feeds reduce supply - none of this matters especially if there are no concerns and never have been, but that's not the case here. What's the gap at night, and between bfs?

Saturday night he slept from 11-6 with a breastfeed just before bed and one as soon as he woke. But last night he slept from 9-7 with a breastfeed just before bed (and 100ml of formula after the BF) and one as soon as he woke.

My Hv is confident that we can lose the bottle now and he will gain weight, we are building up to it, in a way I am scared that I will drop the bottle and he will not gain weight again.

Can you reschedule the formula bottle, Sparkly....on my reckoning you last bf him at about 7.30 to 8 last night ('cos he went to sleep after the bf and the formula) which makes a gap of 11 hours.....that's long. Sorry.

As I say, without your history, no probs. With your history, worth keeping an eye on. No matter how often you fed in the day, a gap of 10-11 hours is prob going to reduce your supply

Hi - My LO stopped nighttime feeds at 12 weeks, supply was still fine. At 20 weeks, DS fed at 7am, 10.30ish, 2pm, 5pm, 7pm - little top up if he needed it, 10pm - dreamfeed. He had been on 4 hour feeds during the day, but had to bump them up as he was hungrier.

Ok, the bottle is normally done at night as he seems to like it. If I try to BF him again he gets really funny and will not settle on the breast, he pulls away screaming, tugs and hits the breast (because it doesn't come out fast enough I guess)

I actually expected him to wake at about 3-4am as he normally does but he didn't!

oops xpost with tiktok. sorry - didnt realise you had history with supply. Was just sharing my experience.

Tiktok, I haven't had a problem with my supply though. I was expressing as well as BF when he first came out and I always have milk, I still leak sometimes I had one day where I struggled with expressing (I was having a bad day) but the next day I was back to expressing 100ml. My supply was never the problem, just Callum not gaining weight. I am just worried about my supply now he is sleeping though.

Ah, I see....so the issue was Callum's intake, rather than what was 'available' to him. Sorry - details misremembered!

Still think it's worth keeping an eye on, but a good, well-established supply is a robust sorta thing....

ok. will keep an eye on it, i think i'll express at 11pm for a while.