How often does your dc BF? Ds is 8 months old and is BF about 6 times in a 24 hour period. He eats pureed sweet potato and pear maybe once or twice a day. I need to intro more foods and feel like he's not getting enough. I know many other non allergic babies are eating table food by now. I wouldn't care, but ds weight has dropped significantly. He was 7.15 at birth; 12.1 at 2 mo's; 14.8 at 4 mo's and now at 8 months old he's only 16.8 lbs. He went from consistently being at 50% through 4 months to now he's between 5-10%. He also was an excellent sleeper up until 4 mo's old. Now he wakes several times at night to nurse, but will only nurse about 5 minutes.
I worry about him getting enough. I know many babes can EBF until 12 mo's and get enough that way, but my boys aren't those babes. (I had weight gain probs with ds#1 and he was way below the charts for months). DS#2 (my 8 mo old) seems to be doing a bit better, but has slowed down on his weight gain. In fact, from 4 mo's to 5 1/2 mo's he only gained like 6 oz. So, he's done better in the last few weeks with weight gain, but still seems like he's hungry.
On one side I feel like I should speed up with the solids but on the other I'm gunshy b/c I don't want to have the allergy issues that ds#1 had. DS#2 has eczema and has reacted through BM to soy, dairy, banana, wheat. So I'm on a top 8 elim diet. I had major OALD and OS for a while (still have OALD) and the OS can flare up at any time if he gets off schedule. So I have to be careful of that with my supply too.
Any suggestions? Sorry for the long post, just not sure what to do at this point!
*Oh, one important factor to add in is that ds started crawling one week before his 6 month b-day and is now cruising. He's very active so I know that affects his weight gain, but I just know he's hungry and needs more calories. It's not really recommended to add in fats for an FA babe at this point, right? TIA!
I worry about him getting enough. I know many babes can EBF until 12 mo's and get enough that way, but my boys aren't those babes. (I had weight gain probs with ds#1 and he was way below the charts for months). DS#2 (my 8 mo old) seems to be doing a bit better, but has slowed down on his weight gain. In fact, from 4 mo's to 5 1/2 mo's he only gained like 6 oz. So, he's done better in the last few weeks with weight gain, but still seems like he's hungry.
On one side I feel like I should speed up with the solids but on the other I'm gunshy b/c I don't want to have the allergy issues that ds#1 had. DS#2 has eczema and has reacted through BM to soy, dairy, banana, wheat. So I'm on a top 8 elim diet. I had major OALD and OS for a while (still have OALD) and the OS can flare up at any time if he gets off schedule. So I have to be careful of that with my supply too.
Any suggestions? Sorry for the long post, just not sure what to do at this point!
*Oh, one important factor to add in is that ds started crawling one week before his 6 month b-day and is now cruising. He's very active so I know that affects his weight gain, but I just know he's hungry and needs more calories. It's not really recommended to add in fats for an FA babe at this point, right? TIA!
