4 months, three hours

[Sparkie]

Hi there,

My DS is now over 4 months old, but still wants to feed every three hours. He's not a snacker and takes a good breastful at every feed, and more often than not both  breasts, but he can't seem to go longer than 3 hours inbetween in the day. At night he's still having a dream feed at 10pm and then getting me up for a 3.30 feed. He's fine until 7am after that (well, usually).

He's a decent weight for 18wks at 7.6kg and is quite content. I've tried Tracy's program to extend time between feeds, but it doesn't work because he is far too hungry to go more than 15 minutes over the 3 hour mark and it just makes him miserable so I'm not fighting it.

Is it particularly unusual for a baby to still demand 3 hourly feeds at this age? Am I doing something wrong? Is he not getting enough food and should I consider putting him onto solids earlier?

Thanks for your time.

Sparkie

[GraceKellysmom]

Nope, he sounds normal. No need for solids until after 6 months. Just keep feeding him 3 hrly as that works for you. Even the df and the one night waking are normal.

I found with my ds, that the 4hrly schedule was developmental, and he wasn't ready for it until about 8 months old. He just couldn't stay up long enough to go 4 hrs between feeds. Plus, I was happy to get the extra calories in him during the day so he only woke once at night to eat.