Okay-first you should know, he weighed 9.7 when he was born and now weighs 10. 13 as of this morning, so he's feeding well and growing. (btw, no problems during the day.) Our problem is the bottle of breastmilk we give him for the dreamfeed--he has cut back from drinking 3-4 oz down to 1 oz. Also, when he wakes up for the first feed, he doesn't drink much then either, then wakes up for his second feed and takes 2 oz of breastmilk in a bottle.
At first, we tried moving back his dreamfeed from 10 to 10:50-55. That worked for a night or two, then he went back to drinking less. He wakes up around 1:30 for the first feed of the night, then 4- 4:15 for the second, and begins the day at 7 with a decent feed--don't know if I'd call it a full feed but definitely more than the last three.
He is essentially three weeks and 3 days old. Is it possible that he is physiologically ready to drop the second feed but has chosen to lessen the amounts of all the others?? If so, how do I encourage two full feeds and dropping the second feed of the night?
