Help!!! Difficult morning feed and don't know reason

[Mareta]

Hi all,

DD (6 months) has started on solids for the last three weeks (as advice by HV) and it is going very well. She is also EBF in demand but for the last three days her morning feed has gone completly crazy and I am running out of ideas of why this is happening.

She wakes up at 8am and usually has a morning feed at around 9am (she does not like to feed just after waking up any more). We do EBM lunch at 12:30pm and then solid food at 1:15pm (we are doing BLW for lunch and she is loving it). She will have a milk feed at around 4pm and then dinner (spoon fed) at 6pm. At 7pm we start the bedtime routine and she has BM at around 7:30pm before she goes to bed. She is waking up for another BMF at 11pm and still wakes up once during the night for a feed at around 3-4am.

Is it possible that her night feed is affecting her morning feed? She always has both breast but, as said before, for the last three days she only wants one breast in the morning. I am not sure if she is really hungry at night, I think she has a full feed but not sure because usually I am half sleepy. I have tried to offer her breakfast twice but she does not seem very interested in breakfast at the moment which does not bother me at all because I can see she is eating well the rest of the day.

Any comments would be very much appreciated. THank you in advance.

Sorry, not sure I understand the problem. You think she should have more milk or more solids or both at breakfast? Whatever she wants is what she needs, so I wouldn't worry about it.

What worries me is that her morning feed (EBF) has gone a bit crazy. She used to have both breast and for the last three days she is having one only. It does not worry me that she doesn't want breakfast (probably she is not ready yet). I am wondering if maybe her night feed at around 3 or 4am is affecting her morning feed and that's maybe the reason of why she is not having a full feed.

She has always been very keen on her morning feed and now she does not seem very bother. She is also teething which it may have something to do. I am just not sure of why she is not feeding properly in the morning when all her other feeds are ok. She is really enjoying trying all the new food and doesn't say not to anything which is good.

I was just wondering if anyone else has been in any similar situation and could give me some advice. My MIL has told me to offer her water at night which it seems a bit odd to me if the problem is that she is really hungry.

Thank you anyway for your comment.