I guess for the easily indoctrinated choosing the bottle over beefing must be as monumental as not having brats. This is the problem with these people, they may be easily indoctrinated but once it is in consider it hardwired. No amount of logic is going to help the situation.
Why is this advice giving idiot offering such crap? How does he know the impact that her losing her job would have? This self-proclaimed expert should see through the parental whining and offer some real advice because there are real issues here.
First off, reframe it as concern for the baybee because everyone eats that shit up. The husband made the mistake of seemingly thinking about his own welfare and that isn't acceptable in this nuthouse society. Even though his welfare is intrinsically linked with his wife and the baybee. This husband really needs to learn to reframe everything "for the good of the baybee" or he isn't going to survive.
The husband should call their doctor and mention that he is concerned the baybee is hungry. State that he has timed the baybee and since it was born --- months ago it hasn't ever slept for more than --- hours at a time and has only gained -- lbs. Mention that bowel movements seem too seldom at once every --- days. Embellish if he has too but make it sound like it hasn't improved because the end goal is for the doctor to endorse bottle feeding. Request an appointment based on the facts. State these facts again during the visit. Talk in terminology that will alert the "do-gooder" in the doctor and stick with the facts. If he can produce a journal with these facts for the doctor that would be impressive. Duh could also look up the baybee check ups and see what he could say that would cause a doctor to be concerned. Don't mention the obvious parental suffering: crying, lack of parental sleep, etc. because anyone with more than a fried egg for a brain knows that the life of a parent sucks. Do not say "I" or "wife" anything outside of voicing concern for the baybee! Their doctor hears parental whining 30+ times a day and it falls on deaf ears. Keep the conversation on the baby and give the doctor impetus to act with quantifiable facts, the kind that are logged onto the medical records. Also, ask the doctor repeatedly if the facts are concerning or not, once the doctor says yes then ask what the next steps are to remedy the situation. I'd imagine a patient with this approach would be a fresh breath of air and the lack of grievances would be motivating to the doctor. If the doctor has any sense then bottle feeding will be the prescription.
Until the baybee's stomach grows it will continue to keep them up at night because it is HUNGRY. If you starve baybee or keep the food intake down it will take months for the stomach to expand enough to hold adequate food for it to sleep through the night and there will be no sleep. I know very little about baybeez but even I know that.