How to get six hours of sleep a night, even with a new baby
Photo: Maria Toutoudaki/Getty Images The most important piece of advice I received while pregnant did not come in the form of a well-intentioned Google spreadsheet, though there were a lot of those. Instead, it came from a stranger, an Australian woman who approached me after I had done some public speaking late in pregnancy. Her advice wasn’t about how many muslin swaddles to buy, or what to wear in the delivery room — though I had been thinking a lot about both those things.
Cath, you see, wants new mothers to sleep, which is hard when babies wake up demanding to have their golf-ball-size stomach filled every 90 minutes. Under an exclusive-breastfeeding regimen, there’s only one person who can meet that need, a connection weirdly hard for me to grasp in the abstract.
Confessing a bottle-a-day habit to my child’s pediatrician, she shrugged, told me it was fine, and moved onto the next part of the checkup, which concerned congested sinuses. Seeking further reassurance, I ran the BBB idea past Dr. Amanda Van Pelt, an attending physician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “I see more formula supplementation in babies who need the calories for growth, not so much that Mom can get extra rest,” she said.
Cath, whose full name is Cathryn Curtin, was not surprised to hear of my positive experience when I called her recently. “Women need a physical and emotional break from the baby,” she said. “BBB takes the pressure off and encourages women to breastfeed for longer.” Before publishing her book in 2016, Cath was nervous about the reaction from colleagues about using the f-word: formula. “I took a deep breath and thought, I’m experienced, I’m confident, I’m going to do it. Formula is food.
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