Do you let your newborn sleep past their feeding time?

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My LO gets 90mls of breast milk every 4 hour. As directed by the clinic nurse/midwife. However if I don't wake him up to eat every 4 hours, he'll keep sleeping, at least for an extra hour or two. I'm not sure if I should be waking him or leaving him to wake up on his own.

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I was told to never let a newborn go longer than 4hrs because then can get dehydrated. At my LO month Drs apt she told me I can let him sleep at night but still not let him go passed 4 hrs during the day. He is now 2 months and eats every 2 hrs during the day and sleeps 3-6hrs at night.

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As long as your child is having 6+ wet diapers and continuing to grow on their growth curve, no need to wake a sleeping baby! This is a good time to pump and store milk btw!

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Babies make their own schedule .. Sadly and they eat as little or as much as they want my little one eats almost all day some days and other days hardly at all he is breast feed so a lot of it is for comfort but he is a health weight so it doesn't matter.. Let them eat when they want to

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My son is 3 weeks and I let him sleep whenever he is tired for as long as he wants to sleep. He will wake up when he's starting to get hungry (not starving, he wakes up long before that) so I just don't worry about it. A couple days ago he actually slept 7 straight hours, woke up happy, nursed, changed his diaper and was alert and happy. And of course I love the long stretches of sleep myself lol.

I'd say it all depends on your baby, but if he wakes up on his own before he's super hungry I'd say let him sleep.

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I woke mine up until they get back to birth weight

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As long as your baby is not a preemie and is gaining weight, it's okay to let them sleep.

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For me they told me also to wake him up every 4 to 5 hours for feeding cause they said usually the newborn suffer from  hypoglycemia if they didn't have anything  thats why you should check them specially the first days of their lives because they used to your blood sugar levels in your body  ❤️

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I would think as long as your child is growing and gaining weight like expected it shouldn't hurt, I don't like to wake a sleeping baby but when my daughter diary came home she was jaundice and lost more weight than they preferred, so once my milk Came in I was waking her because she NEEDED to get weight back on and help her jaundice, she's growing like a weed so I let her sleep till she wakes to eat.

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Only let them sleep at night past their feeding time but wake them up during the day. This is what my pediatrician told me

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Was he early or under weight?

Do you let your newborn sleep past their feeding time?

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