Waking baby to eat?

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When can you stop waking baby up to eat? Her dr said every 3 hours at her newborn appt but she’s going on 2 months next week and she’s stopped waking up as often and sleeping 4-5 hours sometimes. Should I still wake her, or is she fine to sleep? She doesn’t always sleep that long. Sometimes she’ll still get up every 2-3 hours

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She's fine to sleep as long as there isn't any concern about low weight.

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I stopped at 3 days old and he put on weight just fine when I fed our son according to when he communicated he was hungry.

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Once they've regained their birth weight, you can let them sleep. I think with my son we only woke him up for 2-3 weeks and that was mostly jaundice related.

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I would let them sleep if they are gaining weight (and there wasn’t a health reason your doctor told you to wake them up for).

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If talk to your doctor and see what they recommend. The whole “babies will wake when they’re hungry” doesn’t apply to very baby. My daughter wouldn’t wake up as she low blood sugar problems, so we did have to wake her and try to get her to eat every 2-3hrs. Once she gained her birth weight back and an additional 2 weeks to make sure she kept gaining her doctor said we could stop waking her.

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Since birth I’ve never woken up my son to feed him he fed when he wanted to. Usually it was every 2ish hours but now he goes about 4 hours. He doesn’t starve um sometimes he gets fed every hour just whatever he wants to do, I do not force feed my son. Sometimes when I feel like he didn’t get enough in one feeding & he stops I try to make him eat more & he usually does but often he spits up when that happens. & my baby is happy & healthy. Sometimes tho if he wakes up at night but doesn’t show signs that he’s hungry I still feed him. Cause I don’t want him to go all night without eating. The one time I thought was ridiculous was someone told me her baby slept for 16 hours & she didn’t wake her baby up I was in shock like that’s way to long. That’s when it’s overly long way before that you should wake up your baby I say like 7 1/2 8 hours is the cut off until idk what age but my son is currently 12 weeks.

Waking baby to eat?

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