My little girl is 5.5 months. She is small (five pounds four at birth and now hovering around the ninth centile). On a typical day she will drink four oz in the morning around 7.30. She isn't hungry for it and messes around, popping on and off the bottle and needing a fair bit of coaxing to take that much. Morning nap of 1-1.5 hours. She is then hungry for her lunch (small quantity of veg puree) and immediately after wants her milk and has 5-6oz. Nap of 2 hours, sometimes a little longer. Hungry for 3pm feed, drinks 6oz quickly and usually only leaves a small quantity. Small amount fruit puree and rice at 6pm, then a 7oz bottle split between before and after bath. She either drinks it all or leaves a small amount. Bed by 7.30pm. Husband gives her DF at around 11 and she barely takes 2-3 oz and can take ages. She sleeps through it but sometimes fidgets and wakes up on being put back into cot, resettled with dummy. Because she is small I am not worried about her overall milk intake (my first baby was also small and had a relatively low milk intake, with no ill effects), just the structuring of the feeds. She should surely take a bigger milk feed first thing? It would seem to makesense to cut the DF but I can't seem to find any advice regarding whether this should be done before six months. She sleeps through the night (albeit she sometimes wakes for a dummy replug once or twice in the early hours - I'm sure this isn't hunger as she shows very little interest in her bottle at 7.30). Is it too soon? Any other ideas?
