Did you LO start sleeping longer stretches after starting solids?

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Everyone I talk to says “your baby will start sleeping better once they’re eating real food” but that hasn’t been true for us.

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People who said yes... please give me your secrets! 😂

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I think I voted yes. Meant to vote no. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Our pediatrician told us this is one of those things that's actually a myth. Feeding solids doesn't make them sleep longer. If your babe is waking up hungry it's because they didn't get all their calories during the day so they're waking to get them in the night. So regardless of whether that feeding is via solids or a bottle they'll need to consume all their calories during the day in order to sleep through the night. And often babies don't just start sleeping through the night without some sort of sleep "training" (there are SOOOO many methods).

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Actually my son has been sleeping 10-14hrs at night since 2months so I guess foods didn’t really make a difference for us and he still takes 3-4 naps during the day he turned 7 months the 19th

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Yeah we had long stretches of sleep before she started solids. I haven’t noticed much of a change if any since starting them. Maybe they’ve helped naps a bit though!

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She started sleeping through before we started solids. She’s still not that into food but she’s still sleeping through the night. 
Sure food does digest slower than breastmilk but at the beginning they’re not eating that much, and it doesn’t digest so slowly that they’d be totally full for that many hours longer than milk
Ime it’s just a coincidence. Developmentally they’re able to link sleep cycles better around the time they also start to eat solids in general

Did you LO start sleeping longer stretches after starting solids?

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