Nursing strike? Or just moving to less feeds?

[Saskin]

Hello,

My DS is 7 months old and EBF, he's now on three solid meals per day and on a 4 hours easy.  His A is around 3 hours but he sleeps around 3 hours per day.  I'm finding though that he's not hungry at 1130 when he wakes and/or at 4-430 when he wakes from his second nap.  Sometimes he sleep 10-12 in the morning and 3-4ish in the afternoon  but I always have to wake him in the afternoon to get another feed in!  The an hour later he has dinner and then he's not hungry for his bt feed around 645.  He's very young to be on 3 feeds per day but i'm finding that he's just not hungry... should I keep offering the 4-430 feed as a snack or cut it out and go straight to dinner then bt feed?  three nights in a row he refused to eat at bt...

Easy as follows

E 7am (longest feed of the day)
E 830 Fruit and cereal (with 1oz of milk)
S 10am until 1130-12
E 1130-12
E 1 Veggies and meat (3-4 oz)
S 2/230 to 330-430
E 330-430 (feed at wu)
E 530 veggies and meat (3-4oz) (try to include rice and 1oz of milk)
E 645 offer breast but refuses three days in a row...

I'm just worried that my supply is low but he's not hungry for the bt feed... he won't even latch long enough to get let-down going... I've pumped the last three days because I'm worried my supply will crash...

He's happy and sleeping well... so I don't know... I'm just feeling VERY empty...

any advice would be welcome!

[*Ali*]

I would cut right back on the solids, either to 2 meals a day or to three much smaller meals. In the UK the NHS recommend waiting until 8-9mo to introduce a third meal. I would definitely carry on offering 4 BFs a day as breast milk needs to be his main source of nutrition until 12mo.

I had to cut back on my DS1's solids around this age and within 2 weeks he had upped his milk intake and was able to handle the higher quantity of solids again as well.

Are you feeding purées? Maybe offering foods as finger foods would help him better regulate what he eats. Baby led weaning might be the way to go?

Will he take the Breast as a dream feed after BT?

Do you feed in the darkened nursery with no other distractions? That can help.