Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Infant feeding

Get advice and support with infant feeding from other users here.

When to stop waking in the night

5 replies

MegRam · 30/01/2018 03:42

My DD is 4 weeks old, FF. She feeds really well, her quantities are increasing as you'd expect and she is well above birth weight.

Generally, she is a very easy going baby (at the moment!) - she slept a lot for the first couple of weeks, but is now awake a lot more and is very alert. No signs of colic or any issues there - she doesn't cry much at all. The HV says she is the picture of health and I am enjoying having her very much.

Initially, we were feeding every 3 hours. Now, We've gone to feeding on cue, or every four hours - which ever is earlier. Depending on how much she ate last, she will now often ask for food (rooting, lip smacking etc) before 4 hours during the day so we'll crack on with a feed, and this seems to be working well.

At night, she has a bottle last thing around 9/10 and we all go to bed. She sleeps well, and we then wake her 4 hours later. Sometimes she seems to be surfacing herself, other times we still have to wake her from a deep sleep. When she's woken by DH or I, she is still very calm, but harder to settle after food, and when she does go to sleep again it seems to be quite a light sleep, where she'll shuffle around and snuffle a lot, sometimes grunting. She seems to be fine, but it keeps me up!

My question is - when do we stop waking her for this feed in the night and let her wake us when she's hungry? I don't want her to go too long, but I sometimes feels like we're waking her when she's not quite ready and would rather still be asleep!

OP posts:
dementedpixie · 30/01/2018 06:34

If she has regained birth weight and is now over it then i would leave her to wake when she is hungry

angelopal · 30/01/2018 06:37

Just leave her to sleep and enjoy the sleep yourself.

IWouldLikeToKnow · 30/01/2018 06:45

Once she has regained her birth weight then no need to wake to feed

mindutopia · 30/01/2018 12:39

If she's putting on weight and the HV has no concerns, I wouldn't be waking her at all. We did wake our dd every 3 hours up to about 4 ish weeks, but it was because she lost a lot of weight initially. She wasn't back up to birth weight until day 26. Once she was at birth weight though, we fed on demand. No reason to be waking her if she's putting on weight as she should be. Enjoy what sleep you can get now if you can let her sleep longer.

Caterina99 · 02/02/2018 03:07

I was told to feed at least every 3 hours (bf and her weight gain wasn’t good to start) until DD regained her birth weight. After that, let her sleep.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

This thread is closed and is no longer accepting replies. Click here to start a new thread.

Swipe left for the next trending thread