Do Bottle Fed Babies Sleep Better

If a bottle fed baby did sleep longer which there is absolutly no evidence that they do it is because there body is trying so hard to digest picture self after xmas dinner.

Do bottle fed babies sleep better. Formula fed babies tend to sleep better. Most experts agree that breastfeeding is ideal even if it does lead to temporary sleep problems in your child because it s associated with reduced diarrhea and infections lower risk of sudden infant death syndrome in year one. There is no evidence that it will help. No doubt breastfeeding has numerous benefits.

Some studies even find formula fed babies sleep more at night than breastfed babies as early as four weeks of age. A study of british infants found those who were breast fed cried more smiled and laughed less and were harder to. Breastfed babies spend less total time sleeping and wake up more frequently at night. Babies given solid food plus breast milk from three months sleep better than those who are solely breastfed according to a new study.

It is often said that breast is best. By bf you are doing so much more for your baby than giving it food. In my limited experience dd1 who was bottle fed was a much better sleeper than dd2 who was breastfed. Babies that are ff and don t sleep well tend to have more of an issue digesting the milk rather than knocking them out for lack of a better term it makes them windy and constipated.

Some babies will sleep worse due to reactions to the formula or solids tummy ache etc. But scores of other studies find the same pattern. Now at ages 5 and 2 5 it s the other way round but i don t think that the substance they were. Notice i said was.

Official advice is to breastfeed exclusively for the first six. But bottle fed babies are the best behaved. They sleep better because of this and mums and dads sleep better too as they don t have to get up as often to feed. It contains the right amount of nutrients without addition and reduction of what babies need to be healthy and stay healthy.