AIBU?
AIBU to leave my 4 week old baby to sleep?
Secretlifeofme · 17/11/2019 14:07
I have had conflicting advice on this and wondered if I could get some Mumsnet wisdom. Should I be waking my baby to feed at regular intervals during the night or can I leave her to sleep until she wakes naturally? It's 10 pm here and she has been asleep since 8.30 so usually I would set an alarm for 12.30, but can I just leave her? She is gaining weight well and is healthy, if that makes a difference. Thanks
Secretlifeofme · 17/11/2019 14:12
Ah, this is good to hear! She didn't gain weight very well at the beginning so I was advised never to have more than 4 hours between feeds at night and 3 in the day, but I think now she is doing better I will leave her and relax a bit more about it
WorraLiberty · 17/11/2019 14:20
Ah, this is good to hear! She didn't gain weight very well at the beginning so I was advised never to have more than 4 hours between feeds at night and 3 in the day, but I think now she is doing better I will leave her and relax a bit more about it
I was given exactly the same advice for my DS and once he started to steadily gain weight, I stopped waking him.
He ended up taking more milk in the mornings anyway to make up for what he'd missed.
mastertomsmum · 17/11/2019 14:23
My son was premmie but we never woke him to feed. He’s a teen now and the goal for a non premmie was to sleep through the night from around 12 weeks. He was 5 months when he slept through.
Waking children to feed and waking from a nap to stick to the routine are routes to something utterly unnecessary.
Secretlifeofme · 17/11/2019 14:34
Argh now the baby is asleep and I can't relax! Up until today she has been really fussy and wakeful at this time until about 1.30am, so I think I've got in a pattern of being awake with her... 'Sleep when the baby sleeps' can be hard when you're listening for every little noise 
Stegosaurus1990 · 17/11/2019 15:24
Never wake a sleeping baby!
(Unless HV, MW or health professional says).
The advice for BFing mums is absolutely not to wake them, it’s to feed on demand. Baby creates the supply by demand. Waking them
up for a feed they don’t want is totally pointless.
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