Nosy dentist sleep poll

MLE_C2B · December 2014

so at the dentist today she started lecturing me on breast feeding as though at 3 months it was an option to change my mind??? Anyway her main claim was that BF babies sleep better since FF babies get so gassy and lack calories and nutrients. I pointed out that my 4 yr old was a sleeping champ and quickly got into 12 hr rhythms but my newborn was colicky but now doing well so I saw no correlation. She then, contrary to her own argument, said her 18 mo old still gets up every 4 hrs. So obviously I'm finding a less moronic dentist but in the interest of stats do you BF or ff and what's your LO sleeping at night? Assuming you're 12-15 wks

pshaortao · December 2014

17 weeks here, bf and not sttn

amom2four · December 2014

I'm lucky if he sleeps more than 3 hours lately and he's ebf. Dd2 quit bf at 6mos following my gallbladder surgery and she slept maybe 4hrs at a time while ff at 6-12mos. Even from 1yr to now nearly 3 1/2 she still wakes up at night for some reason.

Vavavictoria · December 2014

BF and longest stretch is 4-6 but with closer to 4 being more common than closer to 6.

HorseLover11 · December 2014

That's obnoxious!! I EBF and she's been sleeping 11 hrs since 8 weeks

Bella2425 · December 2014

FF and 13 wks, just started pulling 9 hour stretches this week. It's glorious!!! (Surely just jinxed it)

Ivorytower2 · December 2014

WTH, Dentist? Just clean the teeth and get on with it! My BF LO is 3 months. She sleeps 7-7, but wakes up at least twice in MOTN to eat, so no more than 4 hours of sleep at a time ever.

RedBaramid · December 2014

FF and we average 7-9 a night depending on when she went down. Up later tends to mean up earlier, sleepy earlier means sleepy later.. so weird...

jht14 · December 2014

Almost 4 months and DD sleeps 8:30-7:00 every night. She also still takes around 3 naps a day. We formula feed.

bainidhedub · December 2014

BF and just turned 3 months, sleeping 8-10hrs for a little over a month now.

kaleb87 · December 2014

Maybe I am being over sensitive, but does it really matter? I just don't understand the purpose of this poll. There are so many other factors that go into a baby sleeping. Every baby is different! I EBF and my ds does not sleep through the night. The longest stretch ever was four hours. I also EBF my dd when she was a baby and she didn't sleep. The longest she would sleep was two hour stretches. To be honest she didn't STTN until she was over one.
I think it was wrong of your dentist to give her two cents on this issue. However, lately it seems like everyone has to voice their opinion. Oh your baby doesn't STTN give him rice cereal, or supplement with formula, etc. I'm the one up dealing with him, so I will feed him however I want, when he wants, and stand by my decisions tired or not.

Bonnesetter27 · December 2014

I EBF and she sleeps about 8 hours. I FF DS and he sttn at 10 weeks. I did just read that at about 3 months old BF babies tend to sleep better because of tryptophan that BF provides.

I really hate that people equate how well your baby sleeps to how good of a parent you are. Each baby is different and BF or FF you are doing your best.

MLE_C2B · January 2015

kaleb87 said:
Maybe I am being over sensitive, but does it really matter? I just don't understand the purpose of this poll. There are so many other factors that go into a baby sleeping. Every baby is different! I EBF and my ds does not sleep through the night. The longest stretch ever was four hours. I also EBF my dd when she was a baby and she didn't sleep. The longest she would sleep was two hour stretches. To be honest she didn't STTN until she was over one.
I think it was wrong of your dentist to give her two cents on this issue. However, lately it seems like everyone has to voice their opinion. Oh your baby doesn't STTN give him rice cereal, or supplement with formula, etc. I'm the one up dealing with him, so I will feed him however I want, when he wants, and stand by my decisions tired or not.

The point was just that, that every baby is different there's no black/white answer but checking if a trend anyway.

Megan09140 · January 2015

DS is 13 weeks and is FF and I am happy to say the past week he has slept from 830/9pm all night to 7/9 am no sttn, I'm just super lucky I guess. He was supper gassy and projectile spit up(spit up from one end of the couch to the other no exaggeration) then switched to soy and a world a difference. I personally think it depends on the baby everyone is different.

Everyusernameistaken · January 2015

I just can't believe your dentist would be lecturing you about how you're feeding your kid. Talk about overstepping boundaries!

JustCricket · January 2015

ebm here (not bfing, eping but I clicked the ebf option) and she juuuust started sleeping about 6ish hours straight. and that dentist is dumb and needs to butt out.

eta- also I just LOOOVE *sarcasm* how she found another way to try to guilt a ff momma. ugh. pisses me off.

kristine618 · January 2015

kshayes0315 said:
EBF and been STTN the night (7+) since about week 2. I basically think its a crap shoot and has nothing to do with what methods you are using. Baby either sleeps or doesn't

Agreed.

mrsdanielleM2010 · January 2015

I need all the special snowflake options. We bf and supplement, and he sleeps some nights an hour at a time and other nights 7 hours in a row. It's a crapshoot every time.

conradraging · January 2015

4mo, FF, usually in 4 hour stretches.

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