How often do you wake baby up to feed?

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Doctor said we should be waking baby up every 2-3 hours to feed but by the time the baby wakes up gets changed and eats and cooperates it’s alrdy an hour and a half that’s passed by just close enough for him to be woken up again !! Anyone have any input on this ? I want baby to keep the weight on and get good feedings in but I’ve had alrdy had to skip 2 feedings (different days) after me and hubby tried like 30 minutes both trying to wake him up and he was KOed. Helppp .

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I've never woken my babies up. But if you need to, you go 2-3 hours from when they finally fall asleep, not from when they woke up. No one gets any sleep like that. Lol

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I never woke my son up to feed him. As long as baby is eating well and gaining weight, let them sleep and get some rest yourselves.

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I don’t believe in waking a sleeping baby.. unless the baby is trying to sleep all day and up all night.. other then that i let babies sleep they will wake up when they are hungry

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You’re going to get varying answers here. was told to wake my son up at eat every 2-3 hours during the day when he was a newborn and after 4 hours at night until 8 weeks, so that’s what I did. Yes it’s a lot and it’s sucks. If you’re breastfeeding it’s also important for supply. Newborns also can’t regulate their own blood sugar yet. So I would just do what your pediatrician says.

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Personally I have never woken up a sleeping baby (newborn) 
When they are hungry they will wake. 
You would think I would have learnt. I was exhausted after putting my youngest to sleep and by time had done what I had to do she was due to wake for a feed. I stayed up... keot staying up... yeah i was stupid. Waiting and waiting.

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We had to wake up our daughter every 2-3 hrs during the day and 3-4 hrs at night.  She was VERY slow to gain wait and it wasn’t until she was 9 weeks that we were allowed to let her sleep longer.  Initially we had her breastfeeding until she took herself off, but that could take up to an 70 minutes.  We then had to change to 20 min per side, then pump for 15 min, and then give her what I pumped with  the next feed… I still continue this today at 14 weeks.  She had a tongue and lip tie so this affected her ability to extract milk well.  You time the feedings from whenever they start eating, so yes…. It feels like that’s all you do.  I learned to survive off of 30-60 min naps and now i live off of 4 hrs.  Sleep when baby sleeps, sleep wherever and whenever you can.  Put food in your fridge you can just grab.  Boiled eggs, instant oatmeal, nuts, bone broth soups, berries, oatmeal cookies.

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My middle child was premature when first born told to wake every 2-3 hours for feed which I did through the day, but if they was willing to sleep at night I never woke them with first and last born I’ve never woken them.

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You’re supposed to wake to feed only until baby is back up to their birth weight and gaining well. You go by the time baby starts eating, so if you feed baby at midnight and they eat for 20 minutes, fall asleep again by 12:30 you wake baby again between 2 and 3 to eat again. It’s definitely exhausting. My daughter was back up to her birth weight by 2 weeks old and at that point I didn’t worry about setting alarms anymore. Not that she ever slept longer than 1.5-2 hours for the first 10ish weeks anyway😅

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How old is your baby & have they passed their birth weight?

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I never did, they will wake up when hungry!

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