Bottle or sleep?

Question

I have a 6 week old and curious what you guys do for bedtime. I’m feeding every three hours during the day and we just started letting her sleep at night. My question to you is if you have a feeding at 7:30 and next one is 10:30 do you wake her up to feed or let her sleep? To me that seems kinda early to “put to bed” but I wanted to know y’alls opinion. Our schedule changes everyday depending on her sleep during the night. Which brings up another question. Do you guys start your day at a certain time no matter what? Say your LO wakes up at 6:30am do you get up or put back to bed?

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I breastfeed and just feed on demand.  He goes to bed between 830 and 930 and usually wakes at 1230-1 to eat, then again at 430, and again at 7-8 am.  I go back to bed after the 430 feed but if he pushes it to 5-530, then I usually can’t fall back to sleep and I get up for the day while he sleeps.  I just kind of go with the flow of things and do whatever feels right but I’m a sahm so I haven’t really pushed him into a schedule, just letting him develop his own.

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Let baby sleep for sure. At six weeks it’s totally fine, it’s not like the beginning where they are replacing their weight and constantly hungry. If baby isn’t waking up from hunger, let them sleep. 
The Taking Cara Babies newborn course is awesome for teaching you about newborn sleep and helping you figure out how to lay out your night as far as when to set bedtime, etc. Highly recommend it! We’ve had two really amazing nights since starting her techniques.

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If baby is over their birth weight and having lots of wet and dirty diapers, let them sleep until they wake themselves up!
We breastfeed on demand, lately our 7 week old little girl will go to sleep around 9-10 and sometimes gets a good 6-7 hours (only like 3 times so far) but most of the time she wakes up around 3-4 and then again at 7. Depends on when she goes down for the night, we’re on her schedule still and probably won’t try to implement a set schedule for some time.

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Nope! If baby has surpassed their birth weight, let them sleep (unless otherwise instructed by the pediatrician). I do wake them every 3-4 hours during the day, however, so we can get those awesome coveted stretches of sleep at night. Enjoy your zzz’s!!!

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I've recently started to do a dream feed. He falls asleep sometime between 8 and 9 normally in the living room... and whenever I go to bed, like 10 or 10:30 I get him up and change his diaper and feed him as much as he will take until he falls asleep and then I put him in the bassinet. He has been sleeping for 2.5-3.5 hours after that so I get a good start to the night. I have a toddler I get out of bed around 7:30 so that's when our morning starts. The baby is normally awake a lot off and off from 5 or 6 until that time, grunting and moving in my bed with me. He usually has a morning nap around 8 or 8:30. Sometimes only like a half hour and sometimes up to 2 hours!

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My 7 weeker eats around 9-10pm and almost always sleeps through the midnight feeding. Then wakes around 3-4am to eat.

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We generally do bath, feed, and “bedtime” around 7:00 pm. We gently wake at 10:00 pm to top him off with a dream feed and he goes right back to sleep. 
For the past week or so he has been sleeping until 5:30-7:00 am—if one try with the binky doesn’t put him back to sleep in that window, we get him up to eat. We’ve only had to wake him at 7:00 am once.
The end goal would be to drop the dream feed so he can sleep from 7:00 pm to 7:00 am, but we are so happy with where we are that we won’t bother with that for a while ☺️ I’m sure there will be some back and forth as he hits his growth and developmental spurts anyway.

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