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Offline Jyates

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waking baby for a feed
« on: January 26, 2006, 15:17:46 pm »
hi hope someone can help. how long can i leave my baby between feeds during the night until i have to wake her. i was told when she was new born that if shes had a good feed she can be left to sleep for 6 hrs at most before waking her. she is now 7 weeks old and im sure she would sleep most of the night if i let her but am scared to do so just in case im not giving her enough food can any one give me some advice thanx
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Re: waking baby for a feed
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2006, 19:57:17 pm »
At that age it should be fine to leave your lo to wake up naturally when they are hungry. If you keep waking her you will be disturbing her natural sleep patterns and could end up with habitual waking. Your lo will make up for the lost feeds during the day (which is what you want!)

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Re: waking baby for a feed
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2006, 22:03:29 pm »
My daughter was sleeping 10hrs from 8pm to 6am at 6 weeks and 12hrs at around 3 months. It is fine as long as they are happy healthy and putting on weight it shouldn't be a problem. You are one of the lucky ones if she is sleeping through the night take advantage of it  ;)
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Re: waking baby for a feed
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2006, 01:43:46 am »
Yep, at this age, absolutely let her sleep  :)  Sounds like you have a great sleeper on your hands - yay!!!  ;D
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Re: waking baby for a feed
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2006, 11:11:00 am »
thankyou for replying at least I now know I cant harm her by leaving her and shes putting on weight like a trooper lol
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Re: waking baby for a feed
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2006, 11:44:14 am »
I have to agree, if her weight is good I don't think waking her would be a good idea as she is establishing her own sleep patterns by now. She sounds like a star :)
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Re: waking baby for a feed
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2006, 00:41:25 am »
I remember asking my doctor this and she thought I was crazy! She said let her sleep! I was worried because I was bf'ing at the time.  I think in the end it did affect my supply but she got her sleep.  She stopped bf'ing at 5.5 months because my supply was too low.  But my DD slept well almost from the beginning as well and I think a lot had to do with NOT waking her up to feed.

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Re: waking baby for a feed
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2006, 09:58:38 am »
Gosh how jealous am I :) But then my LO is still ill. Goodness knows how quickly we'll be able to get back into routine once this filthy cold has gone again, but we'll see. She did it in 4 nights last time so fingers crossed!
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