When to get baby up from sleep

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I have a 6 week old. I’m starting to wonder if I react too quickly to his noises at night while we’re trying to sleep? About half the nights, we can get one 3 hr stretch, then it’s a bunch of 1.5 hr stretches, which ideally I’d like to get those to 3 hrs, as well. When he makes a lot of noise, I pull him out of his bassinet and into bed to nurse him, but he doesn’t take full feedings like he’s really hungry. When do you react to baby at night since they are really noisy sleepers?

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My baby grunted all the time and made all kinds of weird sounds during sleep. I learned they were just normal and that there wasn’t a need to respond unless she was crying.

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Babies especially newborns make a lot of noise in their sleep. Unless baby starts crying, I’d leave them be.

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I would wait until baby is whining or to the point of. You can usually tell when they are actually wake and wanting something. My son would always make little noises so I would give it a second to see.

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Babies make noise for a lot of reasons. Want attention, figuring out they can, hungry, bored, ect. I'd say let them make their noises. At least you know they're ok. My son when he was newborn he would laugh in his sleep and make other little noises just to get himself back to sleep. Maybe the baby just woke up and is trying to go back to sleep. I'd say wait till baby is crying. Before taking them out.

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For sure there are lots of times when my daughter lets out a cry and I just put my hand on her and she stops immediately and goes back to sleep. Around 8 weeks I noticed that if she made some sounds (not crying) and I was slow to respond she would just fall right back asleep.

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You could try rocking back to sleep first and wait on feeding until it’s clear nothing else will do.

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I honestly wait until my LO whines or cries.  Both of my boys move a LOT in their sleep, so I cannot go by movement.  I will often pay them first (comfort) and see if they settle.  If they actually whine after that, then I test their mouth to see if they root/suck on my fingers or hand.  If they do, THEN I pull them out and feed them.
 
My boys are on the bigger end (99 percentile and 97 percentile) and my milk is fatty... so they tend to go 3-4 hours between each feed.  At night my youngest usually goes about 6-8 hours (he is 2 months old).  But this really varies.  My two friends that breastfed had night feedings for a while that were about 2-3 hours apart.  🤷‍♀️

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My baby was such a loud sleeper, I did the same thing. He stopped making so much noise about at about 9 weeks. I now just get him up when he starts to fuss

When to get baby up from sleep

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