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Title: 8.5m Not interested/taking in less breastmilk, why?
Post by: tuscany on January 30, 2008, 05:46:42 am

My LO is 8.5 month.  She's been breastfed and we introduced solid starting from seven month or so; now she takes 3 solid meals every day.  Starting from two or three days ago, she started to have problem in breastfeeding.  She does not seem to be interested; no matter how much I tried, she takes one side only each time and keeps pulling away.

Her EASY is:

7:30am BF
9:00am solid (2 TBL spoons cereal + egg yolk)
10:00-11:30am nap
11:30 BF
1:00 solid (2 TBL spoons cereal+ sweet potato)
2:30-4:00pm nap
4:30pm BF
6:00pm solid (2 TBL spoons cereal + egg yolk)
7:30pm BF/Sleep
10:30pm DF

What's going wrong?  Too much solids? (I have not increased the amount and have even tried to reduce the amount a bit for the last two days.) Why is she having less interest in breastmilk? Time to wean her DF?

Any suggestion is welcome and greatly appreciated!!!

Title: Re: 8.5m Not interested/taking in less breastmilk, why?
Post by: Erin (redstarfalling) on January 31, 2008, 00:20:36 am

Have you tried moving the BFs a bit closer to the solids, so that she nurses, then has solids within about 30-60 min?  That way, it'll leave more time between that solid feed and the next bf - she might be hungrier for it.

Title: Re: 8.5m Not interested/taking in less breastmilk, why?
Post by: tuscany on January 31, 2008, 04:33:52 am

Thanks Erin!  I have started moving the solids earlier so that they are at 1 hour after the BFs.  Things did improve a bit! 

Title: Re: 8.5m Not interested/taking in less breastmilk, why?
Post by: Erin (redstarfalling) on February 01, 2008, 14:00:36 pm

 :)