Easier to pump at night than nurse?

Question

So I’m wondering what you guys do during the night if you’re breastfeeding. I’m wanting baby to sleep a tad bit longer stretches so I’m wondering would it be better to give baby a bottle of 3.5 ounces so I know he’s getting a full belly rather than him only eating for 5 mins on the boob and falling asleep and waking up in an hour hungry again?

Answer

I breastfeed during the day and pump. What I pump out I safe in the fridge to use for night feeding. Makes it a lot easier knowing he’s drinking what he should and sleeps a little longer. Better then breastfeeding him which takes him close to an hour to get full and he doesn’t fall asleep on the bottle like he does on my breast within 10min of feeding.

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Be careful introducing bottles if you are attached to the idea of nursing on the breast. I was really wanting to nurse on breast and introduced a few bottles and now I havent been able to get baby to latch on breast for 3 weeks and its breaking my heart. I am exclusively pumping now 😭

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This is what I'm currently doing. The exhaustion was getting too much and I decided I needed to take care of myself.
I try to primarily breastfeed during the day (we are still working on that at 11 days old) and supplementing with some pumped milk when needed.
At night I've gone to the bottles just so I can get a couple extra hours of sleep to be able to survive the next day a little easier. I was trying to breastfeed but would only get sleep in 45 min chunks because each feeding would take so long and be full of inconsolable crying, which was leaving me so exhausted and dilusional!
So now during the night it's change diaper, feed, and pump out the next bottle, with about 2.5 hours sleep in between.
I felt so bad about it at first, but fed is best and we need to look after ourselves. Hubby goes back to work tomorrow too so I need to make sure he gets some sleep. Do what you need to do, mama! ❤️

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I do both. Breast before bed and then I have pumped milk from the fridge that I use for the night feedings. When I tried to do just breast at night it would be a 2hr ordeal each time cause he took so long to eat and then didn’t want to go back down. We have our moments where this works and he will sleep for 3-4 hrs at a time and then there are nights when it’s 2 hrs. See what works for you. Trial and error. If it doesn’t work try something different. Good luck and I hope you get some sleep!

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i sometimes use bottles at night for that reason! that way i know that he’s actually full and won’t wake again so soon for another feeding.

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Pumping and then later getting a bottle thawed/heated and ready is more difficult for me at night than just breastfeeding. But if it works for you, do whatever works.

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I sometimes pump and give him a bottle of pumped milk at bedtime, but for me, it takes me longer to do all that than to just breastfeed him. Do whatever makes y’all both happy.

Easier to pump at night than nurse?

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