overeating - too much milk at once

[maptome]

DD is 7.5 months and does not like to nurse except when she wants to nap/sleep. So if she naps for 2 hours, she won't nurse until she's ready to nap again, which may be 3 hours after waking, 5 hours since previously nursing. I offer the breast often when she's awake, and sometimes she'll nurse, but usually she screams and pushes me away like I'm trying to poison her. Sometimes I offer a bottle if she does this, but she just pushes it away.

So, when she does finally settle to nurse, she eats a lot. She often spits up some when she's sleeping and wakes up screaming. Is she overeating? I notice that when she doesn't eat as much, she can sleep longer. Does she just have reflux? I'm starting week 2 of ED to see if that helps. If she is overeating, how can I stop this since nursing isn't exactly scientific?

[Lineymom]

I don't know anything about reflux/spitting up, but my ds1 who refused all solids until 13 months was like that. He associated nursing with sleep and seemed to feel that I was trying to make him go to sleep if I tried to feed him. He did nurse when he first woke up and was still sleepy most of the time at that age. We also coslept, so he was nursing at night, too. During the day, if we were anywhere but home he was much to distractable to nurse. I never knew how he could go so long, but he was 29lbs at 1 yr and went on to nurse until 25 months!

[maptome]

Originally Posted by Lineymom

He associated nursing with sleep and seemed to feel that I was trying to make him go to sleep if I tried to feed him... We also coslept, so he was nursing at night, too. During the day, if we were anywhere but home he was much to distractable to nurse...

yep yep.