Difference in sleep patterns BF vs. formula fed babies?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t notice a big difference in sleep habits, but middle of the night feedings were so much easier when I was breastfeeding. No filling bottles or cleaning them, mixing formula, just roll over and pull down my nightgown.

There’s a FF hack for this: line up 3 bottles filled with plain water, put three Dixie cups of powder next to them. Roll over, dump and shake, clean the bottles in he morning.

NP. That's a good idea, but how did you warm the bottles?

NP here. No need to warm the bottles. Babies can drink it room temp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t notice a big difference in sleep habits, but middle of the night feedings were so much easier when I was breastfeeding. No filling bottles or cleaning them, mixing formula, just roll over and pull down my nightgown.

There’s a FF hack for this: line up 3 bottles filled with plain water, put three Dixie cups of powder next to them. Roll over, dump and shake, clean the bottles in he morning.

NP. That's a good idea, but how did you warm the bottles?

NP here. No need to warm the bottles. Babies can drink it room temp.

You’re right that it’s perfectly safe. But some babies won’t touch it unless it’s super warm.

[Anonymous]

My two EBF babies wouldn't touch bottles or pacifiers and didn't SSTN until they were 2.5 y/o.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. Both my breastfed babies were sttn before 3 months. I will say though that underfed babies won’t sttn, but bf doesn’t mean underfed.

+1. We were getting 7 hour stretches by 2 months and 10 hour stretches by 2.5 from my EBF. Agreed about underfed babies being a problem esp if mom’s trying to BF and it’s not working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t notice a big difference in sleep habits, but middle of the night feedings were so much easier when I was breastfeeding. No filling bottles or cleaning them, mixing formula, just roll over and pull down my nightgown.

There’s a FF hack for this: line up 3 bottles filled with plain water, put three Dixie cups of powder next to them. Roll over, dump and shake, clean the bottles in he morning.

NP. That's a good idea, but how did you warm the bottles?

NP here. No need to warm the bottles. Babies can drink it room temp.

This is what we did, DD was never BF so always drank it room temp. Only BF babies that have had BM at 98.6 degrees are used to it warm

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thanks everyone! Great responses and seems to show that feeding method doesn’t seem to make much of a difference. This definitely relieves some of my anxiety as, like I said, I have lots of friends with EBF kids who were not good sleepers although maybe those who were good sleepers just didn’t talk about it bc it wasn’t an issue. Looking forward to giving breastfeeding another shot when this one arrives in a couple months!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Always use formula for the last bottle before bed

Why? Both my breastfed babies STTN at 4 months. (We also used formula later when I didn't want to pump at work, so not anti-formula; just asking, what's the point of a formula bottle before bed?)

Hahaha 4 **months**. That's why. Mine were 4 weeks.