What is the longest your LO goes w/out eating?

annarobinson

My DD has been going 6 hrs the past few days during the day time w/out wanting to eat. She is breastfed, but takes BM bottles while I am at work. Just recently we started her on rice cereal and avocado, but she will have that on random days and usually at dinner time. 6 hours seems like a lot being that most days she eats every 2-4 hrs. What is the longest strech your LO does (during the day) and what do you chalk it up to?

gymnst1013

Lately it feels like less than an an hour.  He eats so frequently!

Edit - he is EBF

kas80

There have been a few times that she's gone almost 6 hours without eating but we have to be out doing something super fun (to her).  I think she gets distracted and doesn't want to stop and sit still to eat.

For example we went to the Baltimore Aquarium one weekend and I tried to feed her but she just wasn't interested.  She went over 6 hours then had a meltdown in the car so I had to pull over and feed her in a parking lot on the way home.

If the 6 hours is while you are at work could your LO be reverse cycling?

Jills83

LO's babysitter JUST called me a little bit ago to say LO didn't eat his first bottle until 1:00 today.  That means he went seven hours without eating.  He's never done that before.  She said he was very content but didn't want to eat.  He is congested from a little cold so I think that is part of his problem...it is hard for him to eat from the bottle with the stuffy nose.

On a normal day he goes 5 hours between feedings in the AM.  I nurse him at 6:00AM and then he has his first bottle at 11:00 AM, but usually he is asleep for 3-4 hours of that time. 

jgengo0

Sometimes it is every hour, other times it is 4.  she is all over the chart. 

annarobinson

Thanks girls, I just got off the phone with my mom and still NOTHING ... and the nurse from her Pedi office said not to worry so long as her temperature is fine and she is having wet diapers. I am stressing now.

amanda1680

EBF here.  She eats pretty much every 2 hours during the day, sometimes she'll go 3 hours. 

wootownlady

9 hours at night is the longest she'll go w/o eating.... eats and falls asleep at night at 7 pm, up at 4 am for a little bottle, then back up for good sometime between 5:30 and 6:30.

skrichar

We have always had issues with eating. Even when M was very young, he would go 4-5+ hrs if I let him. Now he generally eats every 3-4hrs, but often leaves several ounces uneaten. Some days (like yesterday) we will skip 1 or 2 bottle entirely! We chalk it up to all his tummy troubles - most often gas pains. His weight has been steady, so the pedi says just to go with it. When he's up for eating, he will.

JuneBug0611

Mine was EBF until I went back to work last week, and would eat every three hours like clockwork.  Now she is BF'ed by me at night and offered bottles of expressed milk during the day.  But she hates the bottle, and has been going 8-10 hours (at day care, then home with her dad, before I run home early to feed her and then log back on to work!) without eating more than one or two ounces.  It's totally stressing me out.  I think she is reverse cycling though, as she BFs all night long once I get home.  But I understand how stressful it is when your LO isn't eating for long stretches during the day.  I hope it gets better for both of us soon.

amypogg6

Sometimes 4 hours, but other times hourly.  When she eats her solid meal and bottle, it doesn't effect her next feeding. Overnight, she doesn't eat for 13-15 hours, but downs a bottle when she gets up!!