Breast feeding and weight gain

[Hyena]

DC2 is two weeks old today. He weighed 8lb 12.5oz at birth and was two weeks overdue. In the first few days he lost 7% of his birthweight and was weighed again today was was 8lb 10oz so still 2oz below birth weight.
I am exclusively breastfeeding approximately every two to three hours during the day for around 30 mins. He is awake for most of the evening and eventually settles at around 1030/11 and then wakes at 330/4 for a feed and then again at 7. He is very alert, mainly settled and having plenty of wet and dirty nappies. The health visitor wants me to wake him during the night to feed more. WWYD? I obviously want to feed on demand and when I've tried to wake him to feed previously he's not been interested. TIA.

Hyena, your baby is waking probably less frequently than most babies of this age - it may be absolutely fine for him to do so, but keeping him close at night (co-sleeping if you are able to do this safely) will probably ensure more frequent wakings and it would not do him any harm....clearly his weight is on the way up, which is good, but your HV has seen him and may be making an assessment based on more than this.

Thanks tiktok. We're not co-sleeping but he is sleeping right next to me in his Moses Basket. HV was happy with his weight gain until she asked me how frequently I was feeding him - I feel that if I'd not been honest then she wouldn't have suggested anything. Am not sure whether to set my alarm clock tonight to wake up and try and get him to feed.

my ds is 8 weeks old and has almost this exact pattern at the same age and he's fine gaining weight well and now just wakes once a night most nights. However I'm not the health visitor so I wouldn't like to go against her advice.

ds is ina moses adjacent to our bed which is supposed to be the safest place for a baby to sleep. I stopped co-sleeping after a few days because of new evidence in the news about co-sleeping and a slightly higher incidence of SIDS.