Baby sleeping through the night!

[JFlo]

I know... Great isn't it! I'm exceptionally lucky to have a perfect little guy who sleeps for around 5-6hrs straight at night and he's only 5 days old. I'm sure there are moms out there who are struggling to catch 2hrs so I really do understand how lucky I am. My midwife has told me I should wake him up to feed in the night and I'm not sure if I should. He doesn't wake at all in the night and I tried waking him a couple of days ago but it wasn't easy so I let him sleep. He feeds well for the rest of the day, has regular normal nappies and has only lost 140g since birth (born at 3440g now weighing 2300g). Midwife has no concern over his health and my breasts are soft and full so no issues there.

Does anyone know what the reasoning is behind waking him and whether I should or not? He's my first baby so I'm very new at this but I'm a firm believer that a large chunk of mothering is about instinct and it doesn't feel right to wake him. Any advice would be welcomed!

so long as having plenty of feeds the rest of the time (8-10 feeds), putting on weight and producing plenty of heavy wet nappies and dirty nappies with good yellow milk poo then I'd not be waking him for the sake of one 6 hour stretch. Sleeping 12 hours in a row then I'd be saying wake him.

puts on weight to regain birth weight I mean after his initial loss. assuming the weight you've given is w typo and 140g is right for your weight loss .

How much has your baby lost?? Figs in your post a typo?

I'm assuming a typo given she days 140g and that the mw has no concerns about his health, otherwise we'd be in major weight loss territory and she'd have been referred back to the hospital.

Ah yes... Maths is not my strong point! Baby lost 140g. Better in old money - born at 7lb 8oz now weighs 7lb 4oz. Oops!

Jealous!

Dd is 1 and still not quite got the hang of it

Sorry I don't agree that a baby at five days old should be left to sleep at night! Maximum is 4 hours for me! Also a night feed releases the lactation hormone in you

It won't last!

I wouldnt let a 5 day old sleep more than 4/5 hours especially if breastfeeding and they havent regained birth weight

DD was incredibly sleepy for the first two weeks. I woke to feed after 4 hours at first, increasing to 5-6 hours once she'd regained her birthweight and some extra at 10 days old. It didn't last and she still doesn't go longer than 6 hours overnight at 5 months!

He may suddenly wake up in a couple of days, you know. My second one let me sleep for three nights, then woke up.

kellymom.com/bf/normal/newborn-nursing/ - says to wake to feed 2 hourly in the day and 4 hourly overnight