Don't wallop me but i have agenuine ff/bf question re sleep

[MerlinsBeard]

Do fully bf babies sleep thru the night at a younger age than fully ff babies?

(yes i know; How long is a piece of string?)

DS1 was ff and slept thru v early
DS2 was mix fed and slept thru majority of nights from around erm...4 or 5 months ish (he has night terrors so sleeping thru every night is out of the question!)
DS3 is bf and still wakes every 2 hours for a feed at 6 months. I am tired and looking forward to a full nights sleep again!

2 of mine were fully ff; one is exc bf

all slept through from 7 weeks 10-7

as far as i know, ff babies do tend to sleep longer because formula takes longer to digest, so they feel full for longer.

however, all babies are different, so it's not a hard and fast rule.

DS (bf) didn't sleep through until about 9 months - sorry!

There! That'll learn you to ask impertinent questions!!

LOL chip monkey!

I seem to be properly researching all methods of feeding my children!! (all weaned differently as well!!)

Sorry! ds4 is fully bf and sometimes sleeps through, sometimes doesn't. I don't think I would use formula to get them to sleep, it could backfire on you if it made them colicky.!

My DD slept ALOT more once I'd switched her on to formula. I think she was so hungry and knackered from all her night waking as soon as she had a full belly she slept for ages. I mixed fed for a bit then switched onto FF.

I think she slept through with a dream feed from about 3 months and then we dropped that and she slept fully at about 4 months.

My friends who are exclusively BF their babies are all still up at least 3 times in the night (our babies are all 7 months now)

ds exclusively bf = no sleep. every 2 hour. once on solids. every 3-4 hour.

dd was ff = slept thru from 10-7 from 8 weeks.

I mix fed but my ds was still terrible at staying asleep. He did not sleep through until about 14 months.

Just to clarify, i am not planning on switching. Although babymonster will now take a bottle occasionally it does give him stomach ache (or some other thing that makes him wriggle and scream!)

I was just curious

Ds didn't sleep through til 14 months too - just about the time I decided to stop bf.

ds1 & 2 were both exbf
ds1 slept 12-6 at 6 weeks and 7-7 at 12 weeks
ds2 slept 10-5 at 8 weeks but 7-7 at 8 months

I don't think we did anything different.

DC1 Slept through at 8weeks with 1xFF st bedtime the rest bf

DC2 excl bf still not sleeping through at 2.4

DC3 Excl bf sleeping through most nights from 8 weeks (he's only 12wo)

dd is bf
slept through at 3 months then stopped again, hourly wakeups from then on and much tearing out of hair until last night! When she slept from 10-6 at 12 months . Probably won't last, but I definitely enjoyed it last night!

I thought FF babies slept longer than BF babies as formula is harder to digest so fills them up for longer. A lot of people I know give a bottle of formula at night to help their babies sleep and I know I am tempted sometimes but from MN know it's not a magic bullet.

All 3 of mine have been BF from birth

DD1 11-6 at 6 weeks, 8-8 at 12 weeks
DD2 was still up 5-6 times in the night at 12 months I had to go on nursing strike to force her to sleep through once she realised no boob she stopped waking up
DD3 only 5 weeks but hoping she takes after DD1 than DD2.

DS 16 weeks and exclusively bf, been sleeping through from about 8 weeks. Really think it depends on the baby and not how they're fed.

Yep. My daughter was exclusively BF, slept through at about 9 weeks, but then teething, plus moving twice in 3 months when she was 8 months threw her completely.
She now comes and goes on sleeping through (she's teething again-molars at 2.6)