She's 10 months old and exclusively breastfed. She was born on the 0.4 percentile but was jumping percentiles and made it to between 9-25 percentile. However she is now dropping.
I feel like I give her a sufficient amount of food and I don't force feed her. I stop when she is not interested anymore. I have noticed in the last month or so that she isn't as interested in eating. She fusses and eats around the same amount but sometimes a little less than she used to. I just supposed it's because she's becoming older so she is pickier or maybe she's not going through a growth spurt right now. However I'm concerned as now she's fallen under the 9 percentile and I don't want her to lose more weight.
Healthcare visitor told me to give her less milk. She sleeps latched on at night so it's an all night buffet. Then she has breakfast an hour after waking up. She feeds 30 minutes before her first nap. I rock her to sleep. However to extend the nap I latch her on. Same thing with her second nap and bedtime where I feed 30 minutes before and rock to sleep.
I've really tried to get her to sleep without milk but she wakes up every 30 minutes in her cot and I can't keep waking up that often at night to rock her. I usually give up and bring her into bed with me. Ideally I've wanted to have her sleeping in her cot, not latched and onto formula but that's another story.
I just wanted to ask how many times you breastfeed a baby who is reaching toddlerhood and any ways/foods to encourage healthy weight gain.
I'll greatly appreciate any help!!