At first we thought it could be because he was fuller on some solids so we let him be. At one point I stopped the cereals so that he was on a 100% milk diet, and still he wasn’t getting hungry. By the fourth hour, I try feeding him and he spits it out. He doesn’t cry for milk like he used to anymore. It’s as if he’s not hungry at all.
Sometimes he can go up to six hours without milk and he still won’t be asking for it. At such point, I get rather upset and try to make him drink up anyway. He continues to spit it out and causes a mess. Finally, I would give in and make him cereals because I don’t want him to go on an empty stomach for long. He lights up at the sight of his cereal bowl and that faithful spoon that hands him the yummy solids.
Once in a while when he decides to take to his milk, we would be so happy and silently hope that he would finish all five ounce of it. We are relieved when he does and hope he gets hungry in the next 3 hours. We miss those days when his stomach was a very accurate “alarm” that sets off regularly every 3 hours.
After talking to the babysitter, we are baffled that he has no problem consuming milk at her place all day long. He still keeps to his 3-hourly feeds! We can’t understand what’s going on and the babysitter assures us that he is feeding regularly. So she suggested we add a scoop of cereals into his milk to give it taste and see if he would drink. We did and he drank every single drop of the milk. But that is just one time, I think I need to do this a few more times to determine if it is the taste of the cereals that he prefers.
Does any other parent face this, and if so, how did you handle it? I want baby to continue a milk diet although he’s put on some solids. Nothing beats the nutrients in milk.
