Breast Or Bottle, Moms Sleep The Same

I just read an article in Time Magazine  (Nov. 22, 2010) titled “Breast-Feeding Moms Get Just as Much Sleep” and had to laugh!

Basically the small article explains that until now it was thought that breastfed babies were more likely to wake at night and sleep less overall than bottle fed babies. All that was to add up for lesss sleep for Mom. New data, the article suggests, has been found that the method of feeding has little impact on mother’s rest. In  a new study, researchers found no difference in the assessments of how well women slept and how well they rested.

Breastfeeding advocates have known this for, like, forever! I can think of a number of reasons that a breastfeeding mom might even sleep BETTER than a bottle feeding mom. The only way I could see bottle feeding as better would be if someone else entirely gets up and feeds the baby.

With breastfeeding, there are no bottle to make or warm and you don’t have to head to the fridge to get it. It is all ready and right there at the perfect temperature every time. Many times I drift off to sleep well before baby has finished his/her meal. I find baby needs to burp a little less when breastfeeding as well.

The benefits to breastfeeding for baby alone would be worth my sacrificing a little extra rest if I needed to, but it turns out that God designed the perfect system that benefits all parties. How cool is that?

I probably missed some other great ways moms benefit from breastfeeding at night. Maybe I am missing something about bottle feeding that is better sometimes. I do have a slightly biased opinion.

Go ahead and post and give me more reasons to love breastfeeding or enlighten me where I have blurry vision.