Mums on mat leave with bottle fed babies...

[MsFrog]

...do you do every night feed every night? I know different things work for different couples. Is it reasonable for one person to do all the night feeds? Is that a stupid question?

Interesting question OP.
I have a 2 month old who woke every 2 hours for the first 6 weeks. I was struggling on so little sleep, so my OH started doing the first feed when baby was 3 weeks. I do the rest (I bf, partner gives a bottle of expressed milk).

I wouldn't expect one parent to do all wake ups, not only because sleep deprivation is truly awful, but also because doing one feed doesn't mean you will collapse from exhaustion at work. My partner gets 2 hours at the beginning of the night and then 5 hours after the feed. Hardly gruelling is it? I get around 4.5 hours of uninterrupted sleep at the beginning of the night which has been a total game changer for me. I can enjoy my baby and be a patient mother to my older kids.

No. My partner normally helps for one night a week.

With out first - who had bad sleep regression he would do a whole night once a fortnight and take the baby at 6am so I could get another hour

We had bottle fed twins and my DH did every single night feed with me, even with working. We fed one each at night: Tiring days but we got through them together.

We have two children. First one we split equally; he had work but looking after a baby is also work so it seemed fair.

Second time around we have divided and conquered so I've taken baby as bf and he's with the toddler!

I did the 9pm and My husband did the 12pm/1am feed. Then I would do the 5/6am. He was really disappointed when she dropped the night feed, because he loved sitting chatting away and getting cuddles. She probably dropped that feed so she didn't have to listen to his daft stories