Sleep routine and feeding
My 5 and half month old has 7oz bottles every 4 hours he’s a chunky baby but when it reaches 7pm it’s like he refuses sleep for two hours and will drink up to 20oz between 7pm and 9pm . Any recommendations to cut down his milk but also get him to settle . Have tried cuddles , rocking and he just screams blue murder from one bottle to the next . I don’t want to be over feeding him but I’ve tried giving him extra throughout the day to space it out but doesn’t work . He sleeps through the night so that I can’t complain about but it’s so difficult. He also leaks through his nappies a lot and I’ve upped the size twice in two weeks . He’s in size 5 nappies and I’m about to put in size 6 🤦♀️. Help mummas please
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I’ve had him checked by health visitor, dietitian and his neonatal consultant, he’s in the 98th percentile but from what they have said he should be drinking no more than 35oz a day and he’s only drinking say 39 to 42oz which is only one bottle extra a day all together from 7.30am to 9pm I was told to start weaning him which will take away a bottle but he’s really not ready yet 😔🤦♀️ . He has a dummy but very fussy I have to pop a tiny bit of gripe water in his mouth for him to keep dummy in . X
Ive also been told that He’s not a fat baby he’s just very well built larger baby . X
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This came up on my feed though Im not in this group. They can feed like this to soothe their stomachs if they are hurting, I would definitely contact your HV or GP if he is rapidly gaining weight as thats a lot of formula. My baby is 9 months and 50th centile and in size 4+ nappies so I would definitely get that checked out. Will he take a dummy instead?