My baby is 4 weeks old, was born at full term, healthy weight and never lost her birth weight, she gained weight consistently at all appointments. She is Breast fed and during the day feeds around every 2 hours at least. If she sleeps longer than 2 hours during the day I generally attempt to feed her to get as much into her as possible as it seems to help night times. She will feed without waking quite easily.
At night I normally do a last feed before I go to bed around 10/11pm and she has generally been sleeping for around 4 to 5 hours before waking for a feed. She generally then goes back to sleep until the morning. Last night I woke up around 5.30 which would have been 6.5 hours since her last feed and she was sound asleep. I fed her without her waking and she stayed asleep until I woke her around 8.30. My family all think I'm crazy and say I should never wake a sleeping baby but in my antenatal classes we were specifically told babies should feed every 4 hours and should be woken if they haven't woken up for a feed, we were also told we should set alarms etc. Should I worry about her sleeping for longer periods of time at 4 weeks old? The other issue I have is that with breastfeeding I often feel like I need to feed her after 4 hours for my own comfort but don't want to wake her just for that. I never expected her to be dropping night feeds so early on especially whilst BF.