Waking to feed

[witknit2012]

FTM here!
DD is 3.5 weeks old and combination fed. She drinks quite well, and had maintained her birth weight by Day 5, increased by Day 12. We haven’t had her weighed since as there aren’t any clinics running, but she’s filling out her clothes, nappies are regular etc.
My question is how long should they be woken up to feed? DD will happily try to sleep for 5+ hours and when I’ve woken her for milk has maybe 30ml formula or 10 minutes on the breast before drifting off. She sleeps really poorly during the day but well at night - should I keep disturbing her or will she wake if she is hungry? Tia

I wake DS for feeds. I don't let him go longer than 2 hours in the day or 4 hours at night. Had supply issues with DS1 so I'm trying to avoid all the mistakes I made first time. I hope they restart the weigh in clinics again soon so I can have peace of mind!

We never woke ours at night! We were told that even an 8 hour stretch at night was fine. Not that that ever happened. And when DS was that age, he was still in hospital and they had him on 4 hourly feeds during the day and didn't wake him at night.

My DS was only 4lb 14 and I was told to wake to feed every 2 hours...
Roll on to DD (6lb 15) and when I asked the midwife if I should wake her every 2 hours she looked at me as if I was completely mad and told me to enjoy the sleep while I could!
That was nearly 12 years ago though, so not sure what current thinking is...
Congratulations on your baby by the way!

@RosieBdy @porridgeface @UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername
Thank you for your response!

It’s tricky when there’s different advice from midwives/ health visitors/doctors! I’m going to see how/when I can get her weighed and see from there