Can a BLW baby like his food too much??

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We started BLW about a week ago (at 5.5 months) and my DS is going great guns.

I have something of a milk/food monster on my hands, who doesn't turn his nose up at anything, which is great, but also leaves me wondering whether he can be at risk of over-feeding himself. He has always had a bit of a faulty mechanism and will drink and drink milk to the point of vomiting but will never pull himself off.

I am also wondering at what point people cut back on their milk feeds - he's feeding as much as he was before he was eating and he is definitely taking down 3 biggish portions of food (half a banana and half a piece of toast, quarter avo on pitta and carrot sticks, salmon and mash, soya yoghurt and stewed apple was yesterdays menu). I know it's early days and maybe he'll 'tell' me as he wants to cut back on feeds (he's EBF), but with his faulty mechanism history, I'm wondering..

Any advice/anecdotes much appreciated!

He'll sort himself out don't worry. DS is just like this, disappeared off the top of the charts and everything. Now three months later he eats and drinks like a pig but not as often and is back down to 91st centile

Thank you. Keeping fingers crossed that this wild appetite of his will die down!

Mine was a bit like this at the beginning of weaning (also at 5.5 months). After a couple of weeks he seemed less hungry and cut back. He's now nearly 8 months and the quantities he takes have gradually increased. He has quite large lunch and dinner but still prefers to have breastmilk only for breakfast (well he'll have a small amount of fruit and yoghurt but isn't really interested in anything else I offer him).

DS was like this at the beginning of weaning - and like your DS was a complete milk monster.

He is just now (at 9 months) beginning to drop feeds, or feed for less time, so he may still have between 5-8 BF in a day, but instead of them lasting 30-45 minutes, some of them are lasting 10. He's also eating more (as in, actually managing to get more into himself rather than all over the floor/highchair/me).

He only started having lunch recently, and it took a couple of weeks between him starting having lunch and him not being interested in a lunchtime BF - before that he'd have both (and usually drink until he overflowed...)

He's in the 91st centile for height and 75th for weight, but has bobbed up and down the centiles a bit. Not sure how much, really as I almost never get him weighed [bad mummy emoticon].