Almost without exception, studies on formula feeding, breastfeeding, and sleep find that breastfed babies wake up more
often than formula fed ones at night, and breastfeeding mothers therefore get LESS uninterrupted nighttime sleep.
breast fed babies eat more
often than formula fed babies do because breast milk is more easily digestible.
Nursing babies are sick less
often than formula fed babies.
Not exact matches
At first, breastfed babies tend go more
often than formula -
fed babies since breast milk is more easily digested.
Although ready - to -
feed liquid
formula is convenient, it is more expensive
than powder and is
often not available in certain brands.
If you feel like you're
feeding your little one more
often than a friend whose baby is
formula fed, you might be.
Formula -
fed babies
often have firmer, less seedy stools
than breast -
fed babies.
Studies have shown that breastfed babies get sick less
often than formula -
fed ones.
Because breast milk is easier to digest
than formula, you will probably be
feeding your baby more
often than a mother who is using
formula.
It's more common for breastfed babies to eat more
often and less on schedule
than formula -
fed babies, likely because (as noted above) breast milk is metabolized more quickly
than formula.
Because breast milk is easily digested, breastfed babies tend to eat more
often than babies who are
fed formula.
Because
formula digests more slowly
than breast milk,
formula -
fed babies usually don't need to eat as
often as breastfed babies.
Formula -
fed babies may poop less
often than their breastfed counterparts.
Generally speaking, timing
feedings so that your baby has bottles that contain lesser amounts of
formula more frequently is better
than giving larger quantities of
formula less
often.
Breastfed babies get diarrhea less
often than formula -
fed babies.
According to WebMD, breastfed and
formula -
fed babies alike will poop once a day, and sometimes more
often than that.
Research and and anecdotal experience show that
formula -
fed babies are much more likely to be ill and require medical care more
often than their breastfeeding counterparts.
Breastfed babies typically need to nurse more
often than their
formula -
fed peers.
You will have to breastfeed your baby more
often because they get hunger faster
than formula -
fed infants.
But because breast milk is more easily digested
than formula, breastfed babies
often eat more frequently
than bottle -
fed babies.
But because breast milk is more easily digested
than formula, breast -
fed babies
often eat more frequently
than bottle -
fed babies.
This is another reason babies who are
fed formula are
often larger children
than those exclusively breastfed.
Breastfed newborns need to
feed often — at least 8 - 12 times in a 24 hour period — because breastmilk is more easily digested
than formula.
Some experts believe that
formula -
fed babies can go longer between
feeds than breastfed babies since breast milk is highly digestible and leaves the stomach faster
than formula, making breastfed babies hungrier more
often.
Additionally, a Johns Hopkins Children's Center study recently showed that extremely premature babies
fed human donor milk are less likely to develop NEC,
than babies
fed a standard premature
formula (
often referred to as preterm infant
formula) derived from cow's milk.
Breastfed babies have more contact with their mothers because they
feed more
often than formula -
fed babies.
However, babies who are exclusively
fed formula, usually end up getting sick more
often than babies who are given breastmilk.
Formula fed babies tend to battle constipation more
often than their breastfed counterparts.
In addition, bottle -
fed babies are
often able to last longer between
feeds, because
formula is usually digested more slowly
than breast milk» (Gillman, 2010, p 154).
However, not every situation allows for a baby to be breast
fed and more
often than not, parents must make the decision to switch to infant
formula.
Feedings were so frustrating, though, between difficulty latching and difficulty
feeding via syringe (he wanted to suck and more
often than not would dribble the
formula out).
Breastfed babies
often need to eat more
often than formula -
fed infants because breast milk is much easier for the body to digest.
Do breastfed babies need to eat more
often than formula -
fed babies?
Venneman and colleagues5 recently demonstrated that infants who are
formula fed are twice as likely to die of SIDS
than breastfed infants based on a case control study of 333 SIDS cases compared to 998 aged matched controls in Germany, from 1998 - 2001, consistent with previously published reports.35 While no studies show that co-sleeping in the form of bedsharing, specifically, is imperative for breastfeeding enhancement, many studies have shown that in order to get more sleep and to ease caring for their infants the decision to breastfeed
often leads mothers to adopt routine bedsharing for at least part of the night36 - 40 even where they never intended to do so.41, 42 Indeed, nearly 50 % of breastfeeding mothers in the United States and Great Britain adopt bedsharing for some part of the night,38,43 - 45 and breastfeeding women are twice as likely to sleep with their babies in the first month relative to mothers electing to bottle -
feed.39
In fact, my
formula -
fed baby gets ear infections and colds far less
often than her breastfed older brother.
The studies included more
than 2,200 preterm infants, comparing how
often babies had been
fed human milk or
formula, and whether or not they developed ROP.
Nitrosamines, which are potent carcinogens, are
often found in soy protein foods, and are greatly increased during the high temperature drying process.20 Not surprisingly, animal
feeding studies show a lower weight gain for rats on soy
formula than those on whole milk, high - lactose
formula.21 Similar results have been observed in children on macrobiotic diets which include the use of soy milk and large amounts of whole grains.
Dear Janine: Vegan parents who can not breast
feed often choose organic soy milk, believing it to be less toxic
than commercially available infant
formulas.