Babies on Solids from 3 months sleep better

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'Babies given solid food sooner sleep better' www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-44723638

Interesting research just published . Made me smile. Had my babies a looooong time ago when this was the norm..

All slept like logs.
If you wait longer enough , everything goes round in a loop.

30 years ago the advice was 4 to 6 months for weaning. I started at 4 months with both my DD. All babies are different and surely a baby who is continually taking large bottles and still seems hungry needs something more than milk.

This research only looked at breastfed babies being given solids at 3 months. It doesn't say anything at all about formula or mix fed babies.

I don't think I'd want to be spoon-feeding purée to a 12 week old that can't sit up in order to possibly have 15 minutes more sleep a night, and perhaps 1.74 night wakings on average rather than 2!

surely a baby who is continually taking large bottles and still seems hungry needs something more than milk.

But isn't breastmilk higher calorie than weaning food?

Seeing as we're all sharing anecdotes as if they constitute evidence... I was fully ff from birth and weened at 8 weeks and I didn't sleep through until I was 10. Not 10 weeks. Not 10 months. 10 YEARS!

This seems like one those "it was better in my day" kind of threads...

Hatstand your poor parents, were you their last child by any chance?

I think the formula babies sleeping longer is true to an extent, though obviously by no means true in every case.

It makes sense with breast milk digesting quicker, and with how formula fed babies will usually go a bit longer between feeds.
I think its rare to hear of a formula fed baby feeding every 1-2 hours but not uncommon for a breastfed baby to that often.

Only DC2 had formula, she started it at 8 months and started sleeping through as soon as she had it and my other 2 were/are awful sleepers, DC3 is 8 months now and feeds every 2-3 hours still!

BounceAndClimb well if he had been breast fed my DS would NEVER have slept then, because he was FF and didn't sleep! Stop with the formula feeding shame please!

How is it formula feeding shame?
I've just said my daughter had formula too, and stated 2 facts that formula takes longer to digest and that breast milk and no solids early is healthier in the first comment.
If you're saying that's shaming then you're saying no one can mention any facts about feeding as you're classing common facts as shaming.

Just because it makes them sleep better it doesn't make it good for them. Sleeping pills/alcohol make people fall asleep better but it's not good for us? Plus my baby slept through from about 12 weeks and he hasn't touched any solids yet.

Surely nobody has a baby expecting them to sleep very well? Everyone is aware that babies wake at various times through the night and that your sleep will be interrupted for at least a few months... why risk their health to try and force them to sleep for longer? Horrid.

BounceAndClimb unbelievably I am the oldest of four! I don't know how they did it.