10 month old still night feeding lots - is this normal?? Common with BLW??

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Our large (98th centile, nearly 2 stone!) DS2 is still needing 2 to 3 bottles of milk during the night - is this normal??

I generally dream feed at 11pm, then he wakes again somewhere between 3-5am and then again at 6am for more milk - taking about 6oz of formula each time.

We baby led weaned him as he wouldn't touch anything pureed - is he simply not taking in enough during the day?? Is this common with BLW?

I don't know about common but I do know that, in our case, unbroken nights came pretty quickly after weaning got going... and that if he didn't get a square supper at bedtime, I'd be up in the night. Milk is calorific but not all that filling... could you live on just milk?

At 10mo he doesn't need puree... chunky foods purposefully delivered on a fork or spoon will show him how to do the job no problem. Good luck

Have you tried posting in the weaning topic too? Just to catch more BLWers.

Sounds about right to me.

At 10 months, DD was only just starting to get the whole "food fills me up" thing. Her intake of food during the day increased shortly after.

Although the problem remains that if they are having a growth spurt or are very hungry, they tend to still want milk as it's easy, filling, and gives them all the nutrition they need. Not so good for us, but they know whats good for them! Even now at 19 months, DD will revert back to milk if she's unsettled or poorly.

Milk should still be forming the majority of his diet until he's 1 anyway. But just make sure you're giving him plenty of opportunities to eat. I generally made sure DD had something "easier" available at each meal time, so she wasn't just faced with trickier things that she was still learning how to eat.

Thanks for all your replies... OK so more food it is then... at least I may be able to sort him out now!!!

He is jsut starting to get the whole spoon thing - ie it has stopped going straight on the floor now - he will now let us load the spoon for him and hand it to him to feed himself. He is very strong willed and won't let us feed him a thing!!