QuoteReplyTopic: Dropping a feed Posted: 01 June 2010 at 12:40pm
For the last few days Mac has been refusing his moring BF or only taking little bits and if I keep offering it, he just ends up biting me instead...ouch.
My question is (or questions as it so happens), do I keep offering in the hopes he'll eventually pick it back up again? Do I replace it with a solid feed instead? Or do I leave him with just no feed at all?
At what age do babies normally drop a feed? He's not even 6 months old now and he only has about 8 feeds a day as it is. We've only been doing solids for 2-3 weeks and only small amounts in the evenings.
Any other info anyone can offer on this would be appreciated too. He's actually becoming a right little toad to feed. Either too nosey and looking around or he goes all rigid and grizzles at me (which I think is reflux maybe?)
By the time my boy was 6 months he was taking three to four Bf feeds a day and only a little solids.
You could just leave him to ask for his morning feed as he may just be wanting it a little later.
DD did this too.... she has been on 5 feeds a day for a couple months now and now that she is on solids.. it seems 5 is just too much so I have just adjusted her routine to 4 feeds, every 3.5hours... she seems much happier and also takes more per feed now that she is down to 4
Edit to say: Oh and she is a very nosey toad too when it comes to feed time
I'm going to still offer him the feed just incase he changes his mind but I won't panic if he refuses. He's been on solids for 2-3 weeks now, and his Dad suggested that maybe he was ready for a 2nd solid feed a day as he gulps back what he gets at night and looks for more.
Morgan was on 4 feeds and 2 solids at that age. I'd just give him a little while after waking and then offer the feed. If he's still not interested you could add breakie as the next solid meal, then BF at morning tea time.
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