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Mommas that have done both exclusively breast feeding and formula/bottle feeding did you notice your baby slept longer through the night one way or another?

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100% when I BF at night my LG woke every 1-2 hours... I moved to formula for night feeds and she now either goes all night or wakes up once for a feed, depending on how much she has during the day. She is now combi fed breaat milk & formula.

when did u introduce her to formula and how did u get her to accept it? In the same boat with exclusively BF baby waking every hour and she’s 7 months old but she’s been doing this forever lol

@Sal oh its so tough! Does she have any bottles? If not I'd recommend expressing and feeding her bottles of milk 1st for her to get used to bottles and then slowly introduce the formula. Maybe start with 1 during the day to see how she gets on. I started to top her up with formula in the early weeks as I felt she was still hungry(she kept falling alseep on the boob)... it was all a little trial and error, for weeks I was pumping 2/3 times during the night to give her "night milk" but once I introduced formula at bedtimes she settled much more! I found my LG was using me as a dummy / for comfort instead of taking sufficient milk.

I tried the MAM bottle but this was weeks ago and she had max an ounce of expressed milk and wouldn’t drink more, demanding for the boob! Lol iv been trying so hard to ride through the night struggles but it’s 7 months in and nothing is changing, she’s using me as a dummy too and literally on it within every single hour at night, soooo mentally draining now and willing to do anything to make her sleep more and give me a break 😞

Which formula do u recommend and did she not refuse the taste of any?

@Sal I never tried the MAM bottles. I had the Tomee Tippee anti colic ones, and she has got on really well with them. We have tried so many fornulas but have settled on Apatamil Advance. This one is suitable for combi feeding. I think the others were a bit too thick for her with BF on top. She pulled faces at first but would still take a bottle. I have heard of other mums mixing expressed milk with formula more breat milk than formula to start with, then slowly change percentages, that could help.

okay I will try thank you so much 👍🏽

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My 22 month old is horrendous at the moment🫣 biting, hitting, pushing, pulling and shoving not only adults but children he also wants what other children have and will just snatch it away from them.

We repeat ‘nice hands’ ‘be gentle’ ‘let’s share’ etc

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My baby has had a dummy since about 2 weeks old (now 5 months) and over the course of the last month we weaned her off it during the day only for naps and night (which was fine) and then 5 days took it completely away during the day.

The first day no dummy was fine, the second bit rougher. But now it feels impossible she just moans and cries all the time it takes ages for her to go down to sleep (she’s always been an amazing sleeper)

I thought it was meant to get better as time went on not worse. I’m at my wits end I dunno what to do.

Currently typing this as she screams uncontrollably in the car and I cry with her cos I can’t do anything.

Of these two, which seems more overall “demanding” to you, overall? Lighthearted poll, not putting anyone down 🫶🏼

As a mum who breastfed for 3 years, I think formula feeding seems 100x harder and more demanding. I give those mamas all the credit because I could not keep up with that faff haha. I truly don’t understand why people say breastfeeding is more effort, other than the fact that no one else can do it. But personally I’d take that over endless bottle prep & cleaning.

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My 12m old is really funny with kids going near him, he’s always been this way, but anytime family’s kids sit next to him or head his way he moans or cries and moves away. He also really observes them and is never really relaxed, always looking over his shoulder. Has anyone experienced this? (He’s starting nursery properly tomorrow so hoping this helps) but is this normal?