DS is 4 months. He is on 3.5 hour easy moving to 4 but that is going slowly. I want to add calories during the day to reduce feedings at night - last night did 3 night feedings - 2 full feeds and 1 short one. The short one was me trying to shorten the feed so he would eat more during the day, unfortunately he woke up an hour and a half later at 5:30a and took a full feed. During the day I try to breastfeed longer but when he is done - he is done. He starts playing and just looking up smiling at me. He just bobs on and off when he is done. He only feeds about 10 minutes max and I still have lots of milk to give (only do one side). I try switching sides, I try moving to a dark room with no stimulation. I try breast compressions. I try burping. I change his diaper and give him a break and I try again. But when he is done - he is done! Unfortunately he can only go 3.5 hours between feeds and that is pushing it, he starts getting hungry around 3 hours and 15 minutes. At night I try to cluster feed to get in mroe calories. He ends up having a good feed at 5:30 but a lousy feed at 7:30 before bed. He only will take a few minutes at 7:30, he is just not hungry. I'm thinking about cutting out that feed altogether and doing a feed at 6 instead. I want to add calories but he just won't take it. I try feeding less at night but he only wakes more often if I don't give him a full feed at night. I don't know how else to add calories.
