Should I wake a 10-week-old breastfed baby for a feed?

[LucyJu]

My dd is a good sleeper and last night slept straight through from 8.30pm until 7.00 am. Although this is great in many ways, I am worried that she might not be getting enough milk. Since birth she has fallen fromn the 98th to the 50th percentile for both weight and height. In the ten weeks since she was born, she has gained only 2lbs (was 9lb 5oz, now 11lb 5oz). Also, she seems to sleep a lot more in the day than dd1 ever did. Can I be sure she is getting enough milk? And is it unwise to allow her to sleep through? Breastfeeding is important to me and I don't want to do anything to put it at risk. Btw, whenever I have tried to wake her for a feed in the past, she has just got really upset, not fed much and taken ages to settle back down again. Thoughts please?

Hi

Don't know if this is any use but my little boy was on the 91st centile when born (9lb 3oz) he's now just 5 and is just under the 5th centile on both height and weight. He's very small for his age but we're both small I'm only 5'2".
I know I worried about whether he was eating enough considering how big he was when born but after being checked over by a Dr he's fine. He's in proportion for his height and has bags of energy.

Are you and your partner tall people that you'd expect your baby to remain on the 98th centile ?? If not then she could just be finding her 'proper' size.

My baby is just 9 weeks old and she goes down at around 8pm. I do offer her a bottle at approx 11pm but she doesn't properly wake up for it. She then sleeps through to about 7am - 8am. I'm doing this because I don't want her to wake at 2am but I'm soon going to stop to see what happens. Don't know if I'm doing the right thing but it works for me.

Good Luck

Jen

Hi
I had similar concerns to yours about my ds (18 weeks) Tiktok advised upping feeds to every 2 hours in the daytime to stimulate milk production and waking ds in the night (he had slept through the night (12ish hours) from 5 weeks)
I've not been able to 'dreamfeed' Once he's awake he's as bright as a button but I do take him into bed with me and feed him there (I'd kick a partner out of bed if he didn't want baby there too )
Last week he'd put on 7oz in 7 days and I'm weighing him again today to see what gains we've made

so I guess the advice is feed her as frequently as you can and do a night-time feed