Should I be waking to feed?

textbookcase · January 2012

Bonnie is 2 weeks old. She usually has a 4-5 hour period of sleep each night. Should I let her sleep or wake her to eat? She has a good amount of soiled diapers and is gaining weight. She just seems to eat more during the day than night.

ksulli · January 2012

If she's doing enough diapers and gaining weight, I'd say enjoy relays sleep. I'm sure you need it.

kmchavez82 · January 2012

I keep reading so many different thoughts on this! Mom swears I should let her sleep but DD is so little that I worry she'll sleep right through and never wake to eat! Then my doctor/online all say 2-3 hours! Thoughts? She has a good poop/pee diaper routine so I'm not to worried about that.

honkytonk_kid · January 2012

Has she regained her birthweight? If not and you're worried about weight gain I would wake her to eat every 3 hours. But if she's there or almost there, I would let her have a 4-5 hour stretch at night, and make sure during the day she is nursing at least every 2-3 hours.

Lucky you!

kevin11 · January 2012

I would let her sleep for 4-5 hours overnight. If she is gaining weight and she doesn't have any health problems, I would just enjoy the sleep. She is going to be fine!

abp51008 · January 2012

My pedi told us when J was little that once he was back up/surpassed his birth weight to let him sleep during the night as long as he would. If it were daytime, wake him at the 4 hour mark.

textbookcase · January 2012

Thanks, everyone! She was 5oz over her birthweight at her last appointment.

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