Hellobee Boards Topic: Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?

Hellobee Boards Topic: Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies? https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:03:06 +0000 loveisstrange on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-145498 Thu, 03 May 2012 00:40:44 +0000 loveisstrange 145498@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Charlie is 1 month today and she's been consistently sleeping from about 8 to 2am for over a week now. She's FF. lemondrop on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-145495 Thu, 03 May 2012 00:30:14 +0000 lemondrop 145495@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Cam started sleeping through some nights around 8 weeks and had it down every night by 12 weeks. I usually put him to bed around 10ish and he wakes around 6am. He gets at least one bottle during the day but always breast at night before bed. We haven't done any sleep training, we just go with the signals he gives. We did supplement with formula for his first 3 weeks, and I did notice that he slept better the nights he got a little formula before bed. sandy on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-145492 Thu, 03 May 2012 00:21:39 +0000 sandy 145492@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My LO is EBF with no bottles and she started sleeping through the night at 2 months (10 hours) and at 2.5 months she started sleeping 12 hours heffalump on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-145330 Wed, 02 May 2012 19:41:02 +0000 heffalump 145330@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Lo is bottle fed and started sleeping 12 hour nights at 2 1/2 months, no sleep training. twinmama on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-145282 Wed, 02 May 2012 19:00:59 +0000 twinmama 145282@https://boards.hellobee.com/ At our BF class last week, the nurse told us that formula fed babies typically do sleep longer (and can go longer between all feedings) because formula is more difficult/takes longer to digest than breastmilk. cupcakemama on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-145201 Wed, 02 May 2012 17:42:00 +0000 cupcakemama 145201@https://boards.hellobee.com/ LO started sleeping through (10 - 12 hrs) at 4 weeks. LO was EBF at that stage. We have not done any sleep training. chopsuey on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-144927 Wed, 02 May 2012 13:12:22 +0000 chopsuey 144927@https://boards.hellobee.com/ LO started sleeping through the night at 10 weeks. Then she learned to flip onto her belly and would cry whenever she did. Once she got used to that, she started sleeping through the night again. At 9 months old her sleep went to crap because she would wake and crawl off her bed. Now at 13 months, she'll sleep a long stretch of 8-10 hours, but has been waking up at least once between 4-6am. I feed her and she sleeps til past 7. Hoping she sleeps through the night before baby #2 arrives! purrpletulips on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-144926 Wed, 02 May 2012 13:12:15 +0000 purrpletulips 144926@https://boards.hellobee.com/ LO started sleeping through the night at about 3 months. She was BF at home but bottle fed at daycare starting at 2months. We did sleep train some. Andrea on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-144920 Wed, 02 May 2012 13:04:05 +0000 Andrea 144920@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Doubt it. I know lots of people with older kids who don't sleep through the night and they are way past the breastfeeding and formula stage. heartonastring on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-144919 Wed, 02 May 2012 13:00:42 +0000 heartonastring 144919@https://boards.hellobee.com/ I'm not a mom yet, but my mum likes to tell me about how she'd put a little extra formula in my last bottle before bed and thus I slept through the night from the time I was 10 days old. I'm sure this is frowned about now, but my mum was all about it in 1982! theknest on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-144901 Wed, 02 May 2012 12:44:04 +0000 theknest 144901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ Our LO has always been a good sleeper - when he was 7 weeks and EBF he would sleep "through the night" from around 8 pm to 3 am...I know I won't be as luck with our next baby. ohapostrophe on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-144900 Wed, 02 May 2012 12:42:48 +0000 ohapostrophe 144900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Mrs. Bee: yes, we did a modified (wimpy!) Ferber for both bedtime and naps where he learned to fall asleep on his own. But I didn't do any middle of the night CIO. The difference for me was at bedtime and naps I knew he was full and dry so I was okay with fussing to sleep. In the middle of the night I wasn't comfortable w that. But the wakeups dropped significantly after sleep training and so we had quite a few months of 6-8 hrs of sleep/one feed/2-3 more hours of sleep which worked great until he dropped that feed around 8 months on his own. looch on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-144898 Wed, 02 May 2012 12:42:01 +0000 looch 144898@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My son is 16 months old, he was formula fed and I can count on one hand how many times he has slept through the night. It's literally 6 times. I am not kidding! I think this really is a function of his personality and his inner clock, not what he's fed. Mrs. Bee on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-144893 Wed, 02 May 2012 12:37:11 +0000 Mrs. Bee 144893@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @ohapostrophe: so that he went to bed awake on his own, but you didn't sleep train middle of the night wake ups? does he go down awake for naps? i'm either going to sleep train in the next month, or just tough it out. olive just dropped one wake up so she's down to 3, but man i've been waking up 4+ times a night for 7 months! ohapostrophe on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-144890 Wed, 02 May 2012 12:33:55 +0000 ohapostrophe 144890@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @Mrs. Bee: and I should mention that we did sleep train, but only for going to bed for the night, if that makes sense. If LO woke up in the middle of the night I always went in and fed. So he did stop doing that on his own without any training. Mrs. Bee on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-144888 Wed, 02 May 2012 12:31:34 +0000 Mrs. Bee 144888@https://boards.hellobee.com/ @ohapostrophe: my definition is 10-12 hours as well. ohapostrophe on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-144886 Wed, 02 May 2012 12:29:14 +0000 ohapostrophe 144886@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My EBF baby started sleeping through the night (my definition = 10-12 hours) around 8 months. By the official (what is it? 5 hrs?) it was way before that...4 months? Honeybee on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-144879 Wed, 02 May 2012 12:23:55 +0000 Honeybee 144879@https://boards.hellobee.com/ My bottle fed baby didn't sleep through the night consistently until she was over a year. We also never sleep trained, though. pelikila on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-144862 Wed, 02 May 2012 12:09:18 +0000 pelikila 144862@https://boards.hellobee.com/ We night weaned at 6 months and sleep trained simultaneously and I still have a baby that wakes several times a night. Some nights are better than others but I don't think it would have mattered if he'd been bottle fed or not. Mrs. Bee on "Do bottle fed babies sleep through the night at a younger age than breastfed babies?" https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-bottle-fed-babies-sleep-through-the-night-at-a-younger-age-than-breastfed-babies#post-144845 Wed, 02 May 2012 12:02:28 +0000 Mrs. Bee 144845@https://boards.hellobee.com/ A comment on another thread got me thinking... the commenter's baby started sleeping through the night at 13 months when she stopped breastfeeding. That made me wonder if Olive would sleep better at night if I only gave her bottles instead of breastfeeding at night. I know she's not always hungry when she wakes up because sometimes she just passes out as soon as I try to feed her. Charlie was bottle fed and slept through the night at 4 1/2 months, but he was sleep trained... When did your bottle fed or breastfed baby start to sleep through the night?