DD going through the night at 5 weeks - is this ok?

[Zimm]

Ok, I know I will be the envy of many writing this but I am worried. DD will now go down between 8-9 and sleep for 8 hours! Which is blissful but I am worried she is too young to be doing this? She tanks herself up by cluster feeding in the evening - so does that make it ok for sleep this long? feeds often during the day too. we are ebf, not been weighed for a while but due a wiegh next week. we get plenty of wet nappies and 1-3 dirty a day.

HV has just left - she said it was totally fine for them to sleep that long as long as plenty of daytime feeds. DD i s still tracking the 50th centile so i am going to leave her to it. She def did not agree with your HV mango - she looked quite shocked!

I'm with CrikeyBadger - I had the same experience.

My DD slept through 10pm til 10am from 5wks and i thought maybe it was because i fed her on demand during the day (every 2 hrs or so) but i wasn't complaining as love my sleep.Friends would comment "on the breast AGAIN" but i knew she would sleep better so never minded.
How dreadful for you MANGO for your HV (who you are supposed to trust) to say such an awful thing. Glad ZIM HV cleared that up for you!
Babies wake when they are hungry so you are doing the right thing, enjoy it Zimm because when they get a bit bigger around weaning time they get hungrier.

wow 10pm to 10am - AMAZING! Crikeybadger and popcracked - as a newborn DD did have this problem - she wasn't waking for feeds, hence why I was especially worried now. But as she wakes for feeds in the day and always wakes herself up at 5am and has a nice big feedI think we're ok on this front. I have experienced the whole setting the alarm every three hours and waking a sleeping bany cycle though - not pleasant. I am very reassured by all these posts and DD's weigh-in yesterday.

Zimm- that you're reassured and DD weight is fine. Enjoy the rest while you can!

thanks guys for asking your HV's, its good to get other opinions.
i suppose it does make sense that if they are too tired at night to wake up when they are hungry if they haven't been feeding well in the day too, like you say crikey, the HV is probably covering herself, i guess if baby wasn't feeding much during the day then it would be even more important to wake in the night and ensure they are fed.

regarding dream feeds, i tried it and failed miserably. I firstly tried to get him to latch on while he was asleep and he wasn't having it at all, then did a nappy change which kind of abruptly woke him up and probably upset him further. The other problem is when he does rouse enough to have a feed in the night, I am scared to put him straight down in the cot incase he brings milk back up and chokes on it or doesn't burp (my little one takes forever to burp, even though apparently bf babies don't need to burp as strictly as bottle fed..there has been times when I have put him down in his cot after a feed and he will wake himself up almost gagging and gasping for breath and then when i pick him up he lets rip a massive burp.

AAAARRRGGHH My HV gave me this advice - to set an alarm to wake the baby. What utter, utter bollocks. My GP later said "I hate to contradict advice that you've been given ......but..... ..there's no need for that with a healthy full term baby that is gaining weight and wetting/ dirtying nappies". DON'T DO IT, GIRLS!!! Have a nice sleep instead. And enjoy your babies.