#Feeding babies at night 🌉 🌙 💕

Shhhhhhh.

Nighttime milk actually has hormones that can help sleep and relax the GI system. So if you’re looking for more sleep… studies show breastfeeding babies (and their parents) get on average 45 minutes more sleep a night. From LLL-

“Important precursors to melatonin follow circadian rhythms in breast milk, but the hormone itself is also present and increases during periods of darkness. This is especially important during the first few weeks of life, when babies are not yet making their own supply of melatonin. Since the hormone serves both a hypnotic role and also relaxes the gastrointestinal muscles, breast milk melatonin could be a major factor in early neurological development of sleep/wake cycles, as well as reduced colic incidence.”

Those snoozy nighttime feeds are snoozy for a reason!

Breastmilk is just amazeballs.

Did you find nighttime breastfeeding challenging?
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