Over this weekend, I have a lot on but will be with or near DS pretty much the whole time, so I'm going to have a hawk eye on his cues, to see whether he's getting hungry much before his feeds, or whether he's just a little light.
He's very, very active - whenever we're having cuddles, he pushes himself up to look at you, play with your face, shove his fingers up his nose, etc, or he wants to stand, etc etc etc.
He's still around 50th percentile for length and head circumference ... so maybe he's just lean because he's so active, perhaps ...?
DH tried to get a sneaky feed in between feeds yesterday, and DS just wasn't interested, and cracked it ... but for his 3pm DH gave him 280, and he drank it all - so maybe just after a boob, we'll offer a top up bottle of EBM and see how that goes, as DS didn'just wasn't interested in the extra bottle between feeds.
I just need to stop freaking myself out about long term neurological and developmental damage which could be sustained by DS if he's not getting enough to eat ... the logical part of me keeps trying to say that he eats, he plays, he sleeps, he smiles, he cries, he wees, he poos, he perks, and he's generally a good, happy baby. And that if he wasn't getting enough to eat (to the extent that he's at risk) he would not behave the way that he does.
But then the head gets cloudy, and suddenly I'm the worst mother in the world because he's not growing as much as I'd like, and so clearly it's my fault blah blah blah ...
I think a weekend of close contact, careful attention and offering a feed whenever he seems at all hungry (making sure that he's feeding long enough to get to the hind milk, of course, at least the 4 times a day he normally feeds) might be the way to go, to see whether he can drink anymore.
'Cause maybe he's completely satisfied, and he's just drinking more than we realise at 7am and 7pm boobie o'clock.
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