My feelings are that it's not appropriate for a five-month old to 1)
go all night without eating and 2) be eating solid foods. He's eating
quite a lot of solids, thus decreasing the demand for breastmilk, and
it's early yet for the breasts to go such a long stretch at night
without stimulation. Her supply is probably diminishing. I do think
nursing once/hour in the evening time is normal behavior, but in light
of what I've read, I would say he's probably also trying to build up
her supply.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't make enough milk if
you don't nurse often enough. And at five months it's appropriate to
nurse around the clock exclusively.

So, in other words, I don't think she has a medical problem at all--it
sounds behavioral to me. Just my $0.02.

Gina Gerboth
Pueblo, Colorado
>
> By evening, when he's tired....because he won't nap hardly at all, he is a
> bear!  He is screaming ALOT and I can't even feel my milk let down by 6ish, as
> he tries to nurse every hour.  He is eating solids.  We did rice cereal for two
> and a half weeks and then have moved onto some foods, he has had sweet
> potatoes, squash and carrots.  He does well eating.  And he only eats rice
> cereal about 3-4 T. for breakfast and then half a small container of baby food
> for lunch and dinner as well as 2-3 T of rice cereal.
>

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