Do you/did you still wake your 5 week old for feedings?

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My daughter is in the 84th percentile for weight & is gaining at a great pace. At her 2 week appointment her pediatrician said I could let her go up to 5 hours at night without a feeding & 3 hours during the day. I forgot to ask at her 1 month appointment if those guidelines still stand. Just wondering about everyone else’s experience.

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I have never woke my babies up lol if they are hungry they will wake up. I always l let her wake up. Idc if it's two hour increments or 5. It depends on how well she drank before. If she got more of the beginning of the breast milk its thinner so she may be hungry faster. Longest time we slept was 5 hours. Which was nice. My boobs were rocks though lol

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We wake every 3 hrs during the day but not at all at night. She slept from 930pm-2am and then 3am-630am last night. You want that long period of sleep to be when you’re sleeping!

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I only wake during the day if it’s been more than 3 hours because then he won’t sleep as good during the night. Our ped says once they’ve passed their birth weight that you don’t have to wake to feed

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My daughter was 4 weeks early, and we spent 4 days in the hospital. She was always sleeping, and never stayed awake to eat, the last night we were there she slept for 5 hours and the hospital staff freaked when they came in at 5 am and I said her last feeding was midnight! I got scared and fed her obviously lol I left the hospital and she kept doing it if I let her. Consistently slept from 10 pm to 3 am, then to 4 am, now to 5 am (8 weeks today!) I asked her doctor at her 1 week appointment and he told me to let her sleep. If she’s hungry she’ll wake up, he said. I was blessed with a good sleep and I don’t ruin that for anything! Lol ps this is my 3rd but since she was a premie they worried me at the hospital she didn’t know how to wake up and eat. Needless to say she’s growing perfectly and actually went from the premie growth scale to full term babies growth chart after 1 month bc she is gaining so much weight. Moral of the story.. don’t wake a sleeping baby 😉

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I have never woken my LO to feed though when he was a week old he started sleeping 9hours through the night and my husband and I both woke up panicking a few times 😂

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I've never woken my baby for a feed, couldn't even if I tried, she sleeps like a log!

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I’m only still waking my 5 week old because she’s not gaining enough weight so have been told to carry on night feeding. If baby is gaining well and is at 84th percentile then I’d leave them to wake when they’re hungry

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I never woke mine up. If they are hungry they will wake up

Do you/did you still wake your 5 week old for feedings?

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