breastfeeding mothers do get more sleep actually. u dont have to get up and make bottles and fully wake urself up, even if your partner takes a feed u still wake up because thats ur biological response as a mom, to wake up when babys in distress.
Two of those sources you linked are neither reputable, unbiased, nor a study. The study you did link was of a total study size of less than 150 participants, only showed a marked increase in in sleep in EBF mothers in the first month postpartum, and acknowledged that the results may be skewed because they tracked sleep through a wrist monitor, which would show more sleep to the person moving less.
Edit: also the study corrects for shared feeding, meaning they’re only accounting for moms who do all the night time feedings, which completely ignores my entire point that formula feeding gets parents more sleep because feeding can be shared.
I don’t get out of bed to make bottles. I have a system on my night stand lol and as someone in the trenches I wish breastfeeding was as simple as just bringing baby to the breast but as many people in this sub can attest it sometimes requires a whole production like getting the proper position, a nursing pillow, nipple shields, many attempts at latching, etc. Anecdotally, it takes me less time to prepare a bottle and pop it in my babies mouth than if I tried breastfeeding at night. Not everyone can just magically pop their baby on their boob and “dream feed”
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u/Tough_Bedroom_2 May 01 '26
https://laleche.org.uk/breastfeeding-at-night/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3927438/
https://lamaze.org/Connecting-the-Dots/Post/exclusively-breastfeeding-mothers-get-more-sleep-another-look-at-nighttime-breastfeeding-and-postpartum-depression
breastfeeding mothers do get more sleep actually. u dont have to get up and make bottles and fully wake urself up, even if your partner takes a feed u still wake up because thats ur biological response as a mom, to wake up when babys in distress.