"Changing to formula made her sleep through the night"

[snowchick1977]

Hi

I had my daughters 8 week jabs today. She is ebf and feeds every 2-3 hours feeding at midnight, 3am and 6am most nights which is fine for us.

I was in the waiting room at the doctors and overheard a Dad boasting that changing to formula at 3 weeks has meant that his daughter sleeps 7-6.....surely he's lying?

He said people were mad to breastfeed because of the sleep deprivation.

Made me feel a bit low :(

Sounds like you've got a lovely supportive DP there and some great comebacks too

I love the comment by TheProvincialLady - so very true!
I ebf my DS for 14 weeks and he was going down at approx 9pm, waking at 3am and again at 6am. Was advised by well meaning relative to do a ff at 11pm to "get him through the night" and now he's 16 weeks and feeds at 7pm, 10pm, 1am, 4am and 6am! Although I've continued with the ff at 7pm it's only so I can twist Daddy's arm to give it to him so I can get the washing up/ironing/hovering/dusting/laundry done instead (!)
I'm sure in a couple of weeks it'll be a different routine ... the main thing is, we're happy and healthy =D