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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those saying night nanny, how much does that help if you are BFing? If you are still being woken up 3x a night and have a hard time falling back asleep, that doesn’t seem like it would help.[/quote]

[b]No, a baby nurse doesn’t help the sleep aspect much if you are breastfeeding. To establish a supply you need to be feeding or pumping every few hours in the beginning.[/b] My daughter started sleeping through the night pretty early- by 6-8 weeks- and through trial and error I think I pumped late at night before bed while she slept and then didn’t feed until she woke up. But this doesn’t work for everyone and I never made as much as au did for my firstborn; where I pumped around the clock (and he didn’t sleep through the night until sleep training at close to a year.)

Long story short- good sleep habits, formula feeding, and baby nurse all help odds that you’ll sleep. [/quote]

I disagree. My first was a terrible sleeper and so for our second we got a night nanny. I still breastfed but not having to deal with getting up, changing diapers, reswaddling and getting the baby to go back to sleep was amazing. I also would try to nurse right before the night nanny got there and then only have to wake once to nurse in the middle of the night and then nurse again right when the nanny left. Night nannies usually do 8 hour shifts so like 10 pm - 6 am so its not like you're going 12 hours without nursing. Also nursing was way easier the second time. I just had way more supply so I was able to pump enough extra milk for a weekend within a week. With my first a whole day would only result in one serving of milk. I didn't do anything differently . .it was just.what happened. [/quote]

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