Too hungry!

[Pregnopaws]

LO continues to demand food often (much less than 2 hours between feeds). I breastfeed as much as I can and offer 6 oz bottles a couple of times a day. He also gets a couple of teaspoons of baby cereal with his last feed now as he is waking up all hours for food. Despite all this he only gained 2 ounces in weight in the last 2 weeks !! The woman in the clinic said it was ok but i think its a bit odd. If he is having a growth spurt I would expect him to gain more. I wonder if I should change to hungry baby milk or just try a little more baby rice with his last bottle? Any ideas?

 

[Rosieroo]

Baby milk is more calorific than any baby food, so giving more baby rice would do nothing for his weight gain.
At approx 4 months babies do go through a massive growth spurt which can often be mistaken as a sign for weaning. Generally their feeding slows back down again after a week or so, so I'd just keep offering the boob as much as he wants it or increase the amount of formula you are giving up from 6oz.
I don't think I ever noticed a correlation between increased weight gain and growth spurts (both mine were gannets anyway!) so I wouldn't worry too much. Weight gain does slow down as they get older

 

[Gem & Leland]

is funny u should say that, the only week ive ever known leland to ahve what i thought was a growth spurt is gained less then he ever has done since he was born lol i think its cos he grew in heights and his weight kinda stretched out !

 

[Squiglet]

I had this with lil miss... but she was exclusively bf'd and it didn't stop for nearly a month.... by which time she was feeding up to 17 times a day (pretty long feeds too) and not sleeping much...once I introduced some solid food such as pear she calmed down a bit.... she only feeds around 10x a day now....just keep with it hun...its only a few months and he will be weaned fully... I would have kept with 100% bfing if I didn't have to go back to work

 

[Sage]

Kyran went through a growth spurt in the first week of being 4 months old to. Id see how he goes this week and if he's still eating like mad after a week id maybe put him onto the hungry baby milk.