Good evening all, I have a question I get quite frequently from my personal clients and my WIC clients. They call me and tell me that at the end of the evening their babies nurse for extended periods of time (up to 1.5 hrs), but when taken off the breast they scream and cry. Mom then thinks that baby is still starving (the word the mom uses) and give the baby a bottle of formula. The baby stops crying and goes to sleep. Why is this? I realize that formula is heavier and takes longer to digest than BM and this is what I tell my clients. I reccomend that instead of the formula, they put baby to breast and let baby nurse 'till s/he comes off on own, then to burp and offer the other breast and let baby nurse 'till s/he comes off on own. The moms say that it only happens at night time. Most of my moms don't want to use the formula, but are concerned that they can't give baby enough. I try to explain to them that the breasts are lees full of milk towards the end of the day (this is what I was told by an LC here) so the nursings may be longer, but that baby is still getting plenty of milk as long as mom lets baby control the length of time the baby feeds. Any advice or info as to why these babies seem to cry as if starving at night then go to sleep after a bottle of formula? Am I giving correct info and advice to these moms? Does this happen to anyone else out there, and how do you handle it? TIA!! Janet LC in Training!! :)