My 4 month old baby only wants to feed at night!

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I have a 4 month old baby who is going long periods in the day without feeding - up to 9 hours, but then wakes every 1-2 hours at night - usually wanting to feed. He is really hungry at night - not surprising really as he is not eating in the day. He has been sleeping poorly for the last month, which started with an upset tummy, then his reflux seemed to flare up, then Christmas was hectic. He is definitely reluctant to feed when there are distractions, but I've tried feeding him in a darkened room which helps but doesn't always have success (like today it failed). I feel that his reflux is currently under control with Ranitidine, so I don't think it is this. I realise an element of this might be a growth spurt/4 month sleep regression - but the lack of day feeding really worries me. If I try to delay the feeds at night when he is hungry, he will just cry and there is no consoling him, so that isn't going to work. So today he has fed at 11.30am and that is it since 3.30am apart from a few gulps. Any ideas?!

Hi @Sunnydays44, thanks for replying. Somehow it's been a bit better. My son is 4.5 months now and we've had a good days thank God...
I was so frustrated with the whole not eating during the day situation our pediatrician finally suggested trying rice protein based formula (to see whether he was refusing to eat due to digestive pain and try to break the refusing to eat while awake habit (I'd still get to breastfeed at night)... Funny thing though, we tried it for a day (I had to pump out all my breastmilk) and he totally refused the formula, it tastes very, very different from breast milk and not in a good way, until late in the day when he latched on to my breast and ate ravenously. Did lots of feeding during the night, and next day we tried to give him formula but he wasn't having it. So I tried breastfeeding instead and he latched on without a fuss.
From then on, (this was a week and a half ago) he's been eating rather well, both during the day and night (still doing night feedings but now I have him with me in bed so I can get some sleep) and life has been easier :)
I guess that formula tasted so horrid he went right back to breastfeeding without too much fuss (also, I realized for some reason he isn't very fond of my left breast, will cry out and refuse when trying to be fed from it, but will latch on to the right breast, at night he eats from both).... Babies...
Hope you and your family are doing well. We've got to hang in there.