Finding the Formula to Sleep Relief

Yesterday we made the decision to experiment with the top-of-the-line breast pump thankfully loaned to us by Brent & Courtney. The doctors and books say not to start pumping for 3-4 weeks, so the baby will take to the boob better. If he starts getting the bottle, he may like that nipple better (not having to suck and work as hard to get something out) than the boob. But, we felt like we've been dealt a different set of cards, with Kathy's recovery and all. We simply needed some sleep and the only way to achieve it was to have something on stand-by in bottle for someone else to feed him. We got Kathy rigged up and started pumping away. I wouldn't want my picture taken if I were a woman, but since I'm not, I can't resist saying - It's too bad I couldn't take a picture. She was quite a sight. Well, after nearly a half-hour of pumping, each boob gave about 1 ounce of milk. We then began scratching our heads. Is this all Kole is getting in the same amount of time? Is that why he gets so hungry so often? Is he not getting enough nourishment? For his next feeding, he was on the boob until he was satisfied - or to the point that he always has been. We then took a bottle of formula that we had left over from the hospital. He drained that sucker in no time!
So, we've quickly re-evaluated the feeding situation. We will breastfeed when possible, then follow that with a little formula until he's satisfied. But last night, Kathy's mother Joan was over and offered to stay and do the graveyard shift of feedings if we wanted to catch up on sleep. It didn't take us long to take the offer - even as my mother has offered to do the same thing tonight. So we staked Joan to the guest room, set her up with bottles and formula, and we put a new bassinet in the room. Not brand new - Joan had actually brought over the bassinet that Kathy herself slept in as an infant. Very cool vintage-looking old wooden bassinet with this frilly, lacy thing that hangs over it. Plus, it has wheels and easily rolls around the house. I bet Kathy that Kole would pick last night to give her no trouble whatsoever and sleep well through the night.
Well - of course that's what happened. Joan said he cried only when he was hungry, then went straight to sleep afterwards. She did not swaddle him, as she says she still doesn't know how to do it too good. She put socks on his feet and wrapped his legs in a blanket then left the rest of the blanket loose around his upper body. She said Kole wiped out with his arms up to his sides, like an infant version of doing 'Touchdown'. Joan said she herself didn't sleep too well, a result of just watching him and worrying about anything and everything else.
As for Kathy and I?? Kat took an Ambien, while I took my deep-sleep approach of lying down horizontally with a pillow under my head. I've never needed help sleeping. I pass out when the airplane begins to taxi from the jet bridge when my seat is still fully upright. Last night I remember putting on Letterman like we always do. Normally we get as far as the "Top 10 List" and then turn the volume down and pull the covers up just before the first guest comes out. Last night I was out the instant my head hit the pillow. I was playing Augusta National with a naked Eva Longoria driving my golf cart before Dave introduced Paul Shaffer. Kat slept solid until about 5:30 while I stayed comatose until around 8:00.