Breastfeeding changes where and how the baby is placed next to the mother, to begin with, and the infant's arousal patterns, how sensitive the baby and the mother are to each other's movements and sounds and proximities, as well as the infant's and the mother's sleep architecture (how much time each spends in various sleep stages and how and when they move out of one sleep stage into another) are very different between bottle feeding and breastfeeding mother -
Breastfeeding changes where and how the baby is placed next to the mother, to
begin with, and the infant's arousal patterns, how sensitive the baby and the mother are to each other's movements and sounds and proximities, as well as the infant's and the mother's sleep architecture (how much time each spends in various sleep
stages and how and when they move out
of one sleep
stage into another) are very different between bottle feeding and
breastfeeding mother -
breastfeeding mother - infant pairs.
You have BF mothers stressed and worked up (and probably less able to produce milk) and those who were at the
beginning stages, neither formula or breast activists, simply trying to find help and information, losing milk supply, finding themselves in the category
of those who think they couldn't
breastfeed because they weren't supported but rather lost their supply in the battle to recruit them!