to think this is not entirely realistic

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Dh thinks our 7 week old ebf dd should be sleeping for 8 hours at night. She currently feeds at 10 than 2ish and than 6. Obviously it would be great if she could but not entirely realistic or AIBU

12 years ago we were advised by everyone other than maybe Gina Ford to feed on demand, especially if we BF.

He is being unrealistic

Babies can and do sleep through that early (some of mine were sleeping through at that age and were ebf) but equally babies can also take much much longer to sleep through. Either way is normal and fine

lovebunny
I have had 3 bf children. I have never ever woken a child in the night to feed after I have gone to bed. Why?? They wake if they are hungry.

None of them fed every 2 hours (2 hours????) Every 3 hours was normal.
ds went from 10pm -6am at 5 weeks. dd2 went from 10pm - 5 am most nights from 7/8 weeks.

but dd1 woke every 1-2 hours between midnight and 6.

Every baby is different, you can encourage them (eg night feeds are low stimulus, low light affairs) but they will wake and feed when they are hungry. When they do drop that 2 am feed it is glorious and life seems to return to managable!

Going four hours beteween feeds at night is fine at seven wks old, pretty good infact.

You feed on demand unless there are issues with weight gain when you may wake a baby to get them to have an extra feed but a normal term seven week old does NOT need to be woken every two hours to feed at night!

My eldest is 13 and all the advice i was given was to feed on demand apart from one crazy hv who told me i would spoil him.if i fed him on demand and he needed to learn to wait!!! I ignored her.

My 2 year old has issues sleeping though the night. She certainly didn't at 7 months, never mind 7 weeks.

I was told don't wake for feeds unless there is an issue with weight. Since DD was a boob monster she gained all the time and I just fed on demand.

Ask your DH is he would like to borrow my 6 year old DS, he will show him not sleeping through the night and make him grateful for what you have!!

I've had prem babies and even then after the first couple of weeks I was advised to fed them on demand as long as they didn't go longer than every four hours.

Who sets their alarm to go off every two hours to feed unless on the advice of a doctor (ds3 born at 32 weeks was woken every two hours for the first two weeks)

Your Dh is way off. Baby's stomach is about the same size as his his little clench fist, it needs topping up a lot, 2 to 3 hours of sleep at a time seems to be more average. Lucky Mums get 4 hours at a time.
Tell him to stop listening to his mates at work.

My DS slept from abt 9pm to between 7-8am (with me waking him at midnight when we all went up to bed) from 4w 6d old....I remember it so well because when I woke at 6am and he was still asleep I had a heart attack and then lay there listening to him till he woke up! He carried this in till he got a cough at a month ago and now wakes A LOT, so I was very lucky!

I have heard anecdotelly that FF babies are more likely to sleep longer than BF babies too....but what I know more than anything is that each baby is different, I'm sick of saying to HV etc that I won't expect my future DC to be the same as my DS so why do you want to fit my DS into your expectations for all babies

I am pretty sure that "sleeping through the night" is considered to be a four hour stretch. anyway, at this age, dh did think they slept through the night I think, as both mine were EBF so he did not have to do night feedings etc. It never disturbed him, unless they were ill or teething at which point he would sort them, but the feeding in the night was for me, and as he said, it does not bother him, so as long as it does not bother me then he did not have an opinion on when they should stop night feeding.

Depends entirely on the baby.
I had 3, treated them all the same with bedtime routines/ebf etc.

Dd1 slept through 12 hours at 8 weeks. Always. Before that, one feed for half an hour between 2-4am.
Dd2 would usually wake 2-4 times until she was about 12 months. Then reduced down to 1-2 times. A wake period could be any length of 5 minutes feed to 2 hours+. She generally slept through
Ds slept through the day before his first jabs, generally only having done 1 wake in the night. (8 weeks) He then had a bad reaction to the jabs and started waking 1-2 times. At about 12 weeks he started just about sleeping through again... and then got an ear infection. He then didn't sleep through until he had grommets at 20 months. Because before that he was either brewing an ear infection, so in pain, got an ear infection, so in pain, or on antibiotics, so in pain from the tummy ache it gave him... He first slept through consistantly 2 weeks after his first grommet op.

My 'sleeping through the night' baby slept from 10-6 at 6 wo. He's now one and touch wood we have never had a sleepless night. He was ff though