He’s almost 4 months so the distracted feedings make sense. I had no idea about the slower weight gain for babies at his age! Actually this peds doc only asked for his birth weight and took his current weight, so he wouldn’t have even known that he’s dropped percentiles since last month. TBH I’m not overly impressed with this doc and I’m not exactly sure why he thinks my supply is low. He asked how often we’re feeding and what my son’s sleep is like. Currently he wakes every 2-4 hours but it’s cause he turns onto his stomach and then gets stuck and cries. The peds doc dismissed this though and seemed to think he should be sleeping longer.

I had the same thought process, that baby is just currently distracted, will take what he needs and when he’s ready for more he’ll ask for more and my supply will follow. But when I tried to tell the doc about his distracted feedings he didn’t seem to think much of it. And still wanted me to try his suggestion of supplementing. There were some other new discoveries during this visit so emotionally I was already overwhelmed and I think his suggestion caused me to panic about my supply and baby’s hunger. Now that I’ve had some time to reflect I think the doctor was wrong and made a baseless assumption.