My LO is 8 months old and I've noticed he is starting to spread out his nursing sessions and increasing his want for solids. Is this normal? How many times should he be nursing? He's never really taken a bottle so I have no idea how many ounces he takes. His output has decreased as well but I imagine that's somewhat normal? My oldest stopped nursing at 7 months-ish so I am in "uncharted territory"

He nurses in the early morning usually between 4-5am then he goes back to sleep. He will wake up about 2 hours later at which time I put him in bed with me and he will nurse for about an hour (really drinking for 20 min or so then just comfort sucking). Then he is up for the day and he will then have about 1 jar of food, yogurt or some cereal. By 9:30-10 he is ready for a nap and wants to nurse. While I know he's getting *some* milk out, he isn't nursing to eat but rather for comfort to go to sleep. He will sleep for about an hour, we will play, another small nursing session and then he wants lunch. He will eat 1-2 jars of food and won't want to nurse again until 5-6pm. After that, he eats dinner-another 1-2 jars and he *might* nurse before bed but not usually. He will nurse if I offer it but only for 5-10 min. Is he nursing enough? I'm so afraid of losing my supply and I really really want to make it to the one year mark at least (my heart desires longer). I added in more solid foods because he was nursing every 1-2 hours and empltying me on both sides and still whining for more. I *had* an oversupply and I was block nursing but stopped that. I thought it was a growth spurt but it went beyond that so that was when I thought he wanted more solids.

Am I doing anything wrong or is this the normal process? Should he be nursing more? Too many solids? TIA

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