How long would you leave your baby between feeds at 5/6 weeks old? Have had conflicting advice from midwife and health visitor 🤔
For reference - First time mum, exclusively breastfeeding, chunky baby at birth, lost 6% birthweight at first weigh then was back over birthweight at next weigh. Continuing to gain weight steadily, hitting pretty much bang on 50th centile at each weigh for the last few weeks.
Midwife told us at 2 weeks old to never wake baby for a feed until it’s been 6/7 hours 😳 Seemed quite long for a small baby. We didn’t follow that. Spoke to health visitor about it last week as baby is sleeping longer now and she said at 5 weeks she wouldn’t leave them any longer than 4/5 before waking them for a feed 🤔