Hi,
This sounds silly, I know but .... I don't think my child is ever hungry and that's the reason he puts on so much weight which now becomes a concern!
He shows no signs of being hungry, not crying, not going for boobs no nothing. But if I offer, he's going for it like he was starving. He was on the 25th perc and is now on the 75th, so clearly, he is putting the lbs on.
He wakes up at 5am and I bf him, I could settle him but it's too hard before we move and he's having his own room. I could give him nothing before lunch at noon but breastfeed him at around 9.30am. After lunch, again, if I would not offer a breastfeed at around 3.30/ 4pm he would not go for it, dinner is at 6am and one more breastfeed at around 6.45pm before bed.
Again the amount he has for lunch - if I offer, he eats 2 pouches (= 260gr) plus a fruit pot, maybe more but I have never tried. But if I offer just 1 pouch and a bit of fruit he's fine too! We only have ready food on the go, I cook myself and I have reduced it from 200gr to 150gr, because of the weight gain.
For dinner we do a porridge, 180ml and it's quite solid, so not runny or soup but more like a pudding plus a fruit pot.
He's eating all that and again, if I'd offered more, he'd eat more.
On the other hand: everytime we eat or I eat, he's crying out for it and wants to have some of it too. Which means, I kind of eat in secret or he get's a a bit of orange or bread or salad ... .
I'm just so unrelaxed about it all, if he'd not put on so much weight, I wouldn't care but the HV it's not good that he went up almost 3 percentiles and I agree. He looks like a chunk and he is fat.
I don't know what to do, shall I just not feed him? He is not hungry unless offered?
Thanks!
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DS 9m doesn't know when he is hungry and neither do I
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Thaleia · 05/02/2013 11:17
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