Hi all, wonder if any breastfeeding gurus can advise? My LO is a month old and is doing really well sleep-wise. He's having a bottle of expressed milk before bed at around 8, then topping up on the boob before he drops off and will generally do a five-hour stretch, followed by 2-3 hour wake-ups, which is fantastic at this early stage. But my question is this: when he wakes at say, 2am, is it more important that he gets a full feed or that he stays sleepy/swaddled and only takes a quick drink? At the moment I'm inclined to make sure he gets a proper feed but invariably that means he's more awake, wriggles out of his swaddle blanket, needs a nappy change as it's completely saturated... obviously the objective is to extend this second period of sleep. TIA.
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