Should I wake up my 6day old ds?

[lifeas3plus1]

I know he's newborn and waking at night is what newborns do and I know the saying "never wake a sleeping baby"

BUT......

Ds feeds every hour to hour and half from 8am to 12.30pm (with catnaps in between) then has a big 2/3 hour nap, perfect as it's same time as toddlers nap, then carries on feeding every hour to hour and half from 3pm ish until 7pm when he sleeps ALL evening.

Problem is he then wakes at around 1am and cluster feeds until 5am. We are co-sleeping but we're still getting used of feeding lying down and with him being so tiny it's not easy.

As you can imagine I'm knackered after this feeding session then running around all day after a toddler too.

So do I wake him now and try and get his "cluster feeds" in now or do I just suck it up, sleep whenever I can and wait until he gets into his own routine. (hoping that this isn't his routine).

Also any idea's on how to encourage feeding session to the evening instead of middle of night?

Please note: I'm fully prepared to just carry on as we are if I'm advised/told that this is what's best for baby but thought I'd ask anyway. You may also be seeing me a lot on this board now. Hope you don't mind.

Thank-you.

I believe that lots of people do this - or just slightly disturb baby enough to latch on and feed them while they are asleep, it's called "dream feeding" if you want to search in the archives/on google for it. (Though often it's advocated to express for a bottle for this dream feed, I wouldn't be doing that this early TBH as you could set up problems for later on. 6 weeks for expressing if you want to do this.)

I guess it's worth a try! My gut feeling is it will work for some babies and not for others. I'd try it, definitely, but if it's not working or it's stressing him or you out then just go back to feeding him when he asks for it. That's the thing with newborns - try something but if it doesn't work don't feel you have to stick with it as you've started.