Basically, DS2 is 4 months old. He feeds regularly every four hours, gets his 10pm feed asleep, and sleeps pretty soundly - until 2am.
It was all fine until went to the HV at some point and weighed DS2. He is growing quite quickly (yes, he's solid, but DEF still healthy, and not overweight, he was small when born etc... really- I am mega-critical, and he jsut looks healthy!) and so she said I HAD to get rid of the 2am feed, and that he gets too much milk.
So, against my better judgement, I have cut this back. Not entirely, but he gets mostly water. All this means now is that, instead of sleeping soundly from 2am until 6/6.30am, he wakes at 3, at 4, at 5- and remains awake screaming until 6 (!) when I give in and feed him what he so clearly needs.
A later visit, and I asked about squashing an extra feed into the afternoon, so that he would not NEED this middle of the night drink. She basically said no that should not be needed(!) Why am I listening to this woman? I am already feeding my child less than 'what all the books say' I should be - DS2 is now completely FF so very easy to track amounts he is getting.
Mother's Instinct tells me, he is hungry, feed him, he is losing sleep because of this, but then I do not want my child to get too chubby..... AARGGGHHH... advice???