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7 week old disinterested in feeding

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GirlWithTheMouseyHair · 24/12/2008 09:56

DS will be 8 weeks on Friday - has always been a good feeder and fairly efficient too - normally feeds for 20-25mins on one boob each feed, roughly every 3 to 3.5 hours. The last few days though he's seemed really disinterested in feeding, rarely asking to be fed so I end up feeding him because I've noticed how much time has gone by (normally 3.5 hours is when I try to get him to feed, paranoid he won't get enough calories during the day and will wake more at night to eat)

We travelled to France two days ago so I would out it down to that, but this has been happening probably since the weekend.

This morning he woke at 9:30am, having not fed since 2am - so I assumed he must be hungry even though he wasn't rooting. He didn't seem hugely bothered but did feed then threw most of it back up again. He seems perfectly happy and healthy in every other way.

We're being led by him to a certian extent - ie I will try to feed him if he's gone up to 4 hours without, and try to get him to nap between feeds and we have a bath/bed routine, but this is mostly a sequence of events he's created himself that we try to help him stick to. Any advice - am I worried unneccessarily? He hasn't seemed to have gone through the 6-8wk growth spurt yet, but my supply is all over the place because of his lacklustre feeding balanced against me having to express enough each day to give him a few spoonfuls of ebm with colief before every other feed.

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whomovedmychocolate · 24/12/2008 10:49

He's probably got a cold - keep offering. He'll come back to you. Don't worry about supply - it takes a lot less than 48 hours to mess it up!

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