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Mixing
Breast-feeding and Bottle Feedings
by
Chris Towland
How
to Get Your Baby to Sleep Through the Night Every
Night!
It
is believed that a mixture of bottle and breast in
feedings could potentially lead to sleeping problems.
There are a couple of different reasons for this when
you are breast-feeding your little baby. With each
feeding, the breast is signaling to the brain that
more milk needs to be produced for the following feeding.
When a bottle is incorporated into feedings, this
process could be interfered with. The breast will
start to produce less milk due to the less frequent
breast feedings.
Also,
during the times when you do breast-feed your baby,
he or she will not get as full with the breast-feeding
because of the lessening of milk supply. Therefore
your baby will require feeding more frequently which
will mean his or her sleep patterns will be interrupted
by the need for feeding.
Feeding
your baby to sleep
Feeding
your child until he or she goes to sleep may be creating
a problem with their sleep patterns. Your baby will
soon begin to recognize that you feed him or her at
bedtime. This will become something they depend on
and expect. Normally, this will be the situation with
each waking throughout the night as well.
There
are of course, techniques you can use to stop your
baby from depending on feedings to fall asleep.
Firstly,
change the time or the amount of time you feed your
baby when nearing his or her bedtime. Doing so will
gradually remove the association of bedtime with feeding.
Another
option is to feed your child earlier in the evening
instead of as a bedtime routine. When you do these
things your baby will not associate feeding with bedtime.
This will help your baby to learn to fall asleep on
his or her own accord.
If
your baby is having sleep problems then take a look
at The Baby
Sleep Solution audio program. It's the quickest
way to solve your baby sleep problem.
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For
more on how to best use sleep techniques, routines,
naps and other great strategies to get your baby to
sleep, as well as a free sample of The Baby Sleep
Solution audio program,
visit the Baby
Sleep Solution.
The
Baby Sleep Solution Audio Program by
Chris Towland :
Ideal for parents whose toddler or infant has sleep
problems.
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