does your baby sleep better being formula fed?

Question

Hi,

My daughter is just over 5 months. I've been breastfeeding all day & during night feeds & she will just have one bottle of formula before bed. She usually only takes 4oz max as I've breastfed her too.

For past 3/4 weeks she's waking up 4/5x per night. When she'd usually sleep through., she is teething but I don't know if it's that.

So what I'm asking is has anyone stopped BF to formula & it helped sleep? I don't want to stop but this is killing me

It's currently 4:22 am UK time now & ive been awake since 2am up & down with her! I think I'm being used as a dummy/pacifier too. She won't take a dummy she pulls it out of her mouth & just bites the plastic 🤣😩,,

Help plssssssss I neeeed sleeeeeep 😴😴

Answer

It has been widely disproven that formula fed babies sleep longer.  My 5 mo old is EBF and sleeps 11-12 hours every night without waking (actually she will wake up once or twice but ends up just talking for a bit and then goes back to sleep). Your LO is probably going through a sleep regression or a leap week (look up the wonder weeks).  Do you have it in you to let your LO cry it out for just a bit to see if he/she goes back down on their own?  You have likely become a sleep crutch.

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My son didn't sleep any different when I had to switch to formula. So I don't believe formula feeding makes any difference

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Recently I've been going through something similar with my five month old. Not really sure why. Thinking about putting her to bed a little later. She gets up a few times a night in these last three days. She normally sleeps 12 hours through.  She gets breastfed and formula fed daily, lately getting much more formula than breast milk, so I don't think the formula will necessarily help. It isn't with my baby. In fact, I think my breastmilk makes her more relaxed and sleepy. Idk Maybe they're teething?

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My girl pulls out her pacifier too and we've found it gels to give her another one to hold. There are currently 3 in her bed haha. It doesn't always work but it's worth a shot!

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Same here. When I'm lucky she is up once/twice. Sometimes she is up and just cannot soothe. It sucks! 😪😪😪

does your baby sleep better being formula fed?

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