Let a sleeping baby sleep??

Question

Okay so according to pediatricians babies should be woken up every 2-3 hours to nurse with a 4 hour stretch allowed at night allowed however some moms like to let their babies sleep up to 6 hours at night if they will as long as baby is still gaining weight.

Do you mommas like to let your babies sleep or wake them around that time marker?

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When my daughter was a few days old I woke her up to nurse, even though my milk hadn't come in yet. 
She's a week old now and I don't wake her up to eat. She's gaining weight, actually she never lost that much weight to begin with. 
So yes, I always let her sleep. She'll wake me up every 2-4 hours to nurse anyways

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My baby lost 10oz in the hospital! Just 2 days. So I had to wake her every 3 hours for the first month. Sometimes no matter what I did, she wouldn’t wake up to eat, so I let her sleep those times. The longest stretch was 5.5 hours then. She’s 9 weeks old now, and the longest she’ll go without waking herself up to eat is 6 hours.

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I had to wake her until she gained enough weight back. Once she was well over her birth weight doc said let her sleep - that was around 2 months old

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As long as they are a healthy weight, let them sleep at night!

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I would have loved to let my baby sleep while he was itty bitty but he lost a lot of weight within his first week and had jaundice so his pedi wouldn't let him go without eating every 1.5 hours on the dot. Thankfully though, he gained everything and then some and jaundice cleared so we got the ok to let him sleep until he was hungry (unless he stopped making wet/dirty diapers which never happened but we were told to look out for)

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As long as the baby is steadily gaining weight and the milk supply is established, let the baby sleep.

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I definitely let my little guy sleep. He is gaining weight at a steady rate and his pediatrician is happy about it.

Let a sleeping baby sleep??

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