How many breastfeeds does/did your 9 month old have?

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I think I may be feeding him too much.

He used to be on the boob pretty much constantly, slow weight gain and I'm just used to picking him up and feeding him.

I think that a lot of the time he's just humouring me.

Details please! Plus spoonfeeding or BLW and number of meals, snacks, drinks etc.

Dd still fed between 7 and 9 times a day at 11 months. She didn't eat a huge amount of solids, as she wasn't that interested.

at 9 months old ds2 was feeding at least 2 hourly day and night. usually more frequently.

he was eating tons of solids too.

LOL @ humouring you!

I'm not sure you can make a (bf) baby drink more milk than they want/need...

My 8 1/2 mo has about 6 bfs during the day: just before and just after her naps. They're not always long feeds, and only one boob at a time.

She also feeds to sleep, and probably about twice in the night: not sure - we bedshare and I'm only half-conscious of when she's feeding anyway.

She generally has a feed before we get up.

So, that's that: erm... 10 boobs over the day, or thereabouts?

We're BLW, so offer her what we're having. Because of the feed before getting up, I never can get her to eat breakfast. But she has some lunch and dinner. No snacks, as such - though she'll suck on some biscotti if I'm in a cafe in town, or something. I offer her water occasionally, but she seems to be getting enough fluid from bf-ing - lots of wet nappies.

HTH!

At 9 months we were on about 5-6 feeds (ex BF) between 7am-7pm and then maybe one in the night. BLW with water at meals. 3 meals a day, with the occasional snack.

Now at 11 months we are on 4 feeds (still on the boob) in the day, none at night (wa-hey!). Same meals/drinks plus a snack of a couple rice cakes once or twice a day.

It's perfectly fine to still BF on demand at this stage, and I'm sure there are plenty of people who continue to demand feed throughout their BFing. But sometimes DS seemed like he could take it or leave it. Now he wants all 4 of his feeds; doesn't squawk for them, but feeds well at each.

Quite a range so far!

I think I gave up trying to interpret him properly when we were worried about the slow weight gain, and took on an 'if in doubt, boob out' approach, so I'm not confident about him 'demanding' a feed iyswim.

5 a day. First thing 7am, 11am, 3pm, 6pm before bed and a sneaky expressed bottle at 10.30pm

I would say to just continue what you're doing, so long as you're both happy.

The outline I gave above is really only an approximation: I'd say we're still pretty much feeding on demand.

Is he generally a happy little fellow, and so doesn't let you know when he's hungry by crying? My DD, who is a cheerful wee soul and rarely cries, indicates when she wants a feed (and very often a nap too!) in two main ways:

• if she's sitting playing, she suddenly become disinterested in her toys, and start turning towards my body (I'm usually sitting on the floor with her). Sometimes she pulls at my clothes, or starts mouthing at my shoulder and chest.

• she makes a very annoying insistent "mmmmmmmmmmmm" noise.

Does your DS do these things? Or something else you might not yet have recognised?

When DD was that age she fed pretty much hourly in the day and about 3 hourly at night. Only ate tiny amounts of solids (BLW) as she wasn't too interested.

Yeah, he does that turning in thing. It's quite funny, just dives down my cleavage, bless him!
I think I need to be more aware of when he's tired or teething as well. He's mostly content now, but used to be mardy much of the time.
I'm quite happy to feed on demand, but would like to be able to leave him with MIL for a couple hours now and then confident that he's not 'due' a feed iyswim.

Thank you all!

Ds was on three feeds a day at that time, IIRC.

My 9mo was on 3 feeds a day and generally lots of solids (sometimes had bad days if mummy had made rubbish, boring meals). he is BLW. However the afternoon feed started being pushed out later and later so it was geting to 4.30 before he wanted it. I tried to wean around the same time and he just decided instead of formula that he would rather have 2 big bfs. So by 9.5mo he was on 2 big bfs, lots of solids (3 meals plus snacks) and lots of water. Now at 10.5mo the bfs are even less important but he is starting to take small amounts of cows milk during the day and eats huge meals.

I wasn't sure if 9 months was too soon to be dropping down to three/four feeds, if that's what he wants, so this is all very reassuring.

DS2 is 20 months now but was feeding every 2-3 hours at this age. We did BLW and he was also having three meals a day by then (more or less).
I would go on as you are and not worry about it.