Liz - LOL at time of your post - did you have a boobie boy wanting a feed at 5am like me??

I completely agree with you on the lack of information about BF and parenting styles. I try to make a point whenever I hear about people discussing how their babies will/won't settle in a cot or do or don't sleep through that the controlled crying in a cot method is only one "type" of parenting and that there are other ways of doing things.

WRT sleeping through - it is luck of the draw AND attitude - my boy is a fake baby who has always slept for long periods of time (luck) and even though he feeds now (mostly) at 8pm, sometimes midnight and between 5-6am, I consider this to be "sleeping through" (attitiude), though I know for some mums only 7pm till 7am is "good enough" for sleeping through.

Some nights Flynn goes from 9pm till 6am without waking, so feel free to use my fake-baby as an example of BF kids who sleep through (and that was before solids). I just know my next bubba is going to be hell - LOL!!

All that said, he was a four-hourly feeder until about 4 months, and I just knew this was normal for him. Anyways, I hear ya, Liz!!

(Disjointed post I know - I have been up since 5am and trying to work from home)