Distracted Feeding In the Morning

Hayden is 6.5mths old and for the last month he's been getting progressively more distracted with his morning BF. Since he was born we have always done the morning feed in bed, so we get him up/open curtains/change his bum and then take him in bed and have a lovely snuggly feed - well that was how it went up to about 5mths and progressively he is becoming more and more distracted. At first he'd kick and wiggle but still feed and now I can barely get 5mins feeding out of him. I really miss my snuggle time with him but more so am worried that now he's on 3 solid meals a day that he still needs a good milk intake as that is where is main nutriants are coming from.

He feeds at 7.30am, 11.30am, 3.30pm and 6.30/7pm and then wakes at around 4 or 5am for a night feed also. He's having 3 solid meals a day and doing pretty well there I think.

Do you think I should just go with his cue's and not be worried if he's more interested in what's going on around him (he's really close to crawling so wants to flip over constantly) or do I need to change something (goodness knows what!) to get him to feed better. Sometimes his day feeds are pretty short too other days they are much longer. Part of me says if he's hungry/thirsty then he'll drink and if he's not then so be it, I cant force him!!!

I've tried feeding him in his room or on the couch in the mornings instead of in my bed but it only slightly improves the situation until he figures out there is also stuff to look at in that room also.

I try not to get stressed about it but I think I still have a few hang ups from our early days of BFing where we had to try really really hard to get it working.

Any thoughts or experiences of what your 6/7mth old did with BFing would be really useful, is this just a phase or do I need to adapt for him growing up?

KK - Natalie is doing the same thing too, and I'm also guessing it's because of her feed during the night, so she's just not that hungry. We're trying to phase out the night feed(s) but that's easier said than done!

ETA: the bummer about dropping the 4/5am feed is that then our day starts at 6am

Edited by blondy

Totally know what you mean. I ended up getting up and feeding him as soon as he woke up, while still in the semi-dopey sleep land, feeding him in the lounge. It was the only way he would drink enough without practicing his commando crawl at the same time . I really miss that cuddly time in the morning.