Wake baby for 11pm feed if they haven’t been asleep long?

[Dontbsicily]

Just that really! My LO sometimes takes a couple of hours to settle so she may have only gone down at 9pm. Should I still wake her for a feed at 11 if she’s not been asleep long?

How old?newborns should be fed two hours since last feed.

Leave her be

How old? 11-12 we did a dream feed- kept it all very quiet lifting out - burping very quietly - no nappy change - back to bed!

I wouldn't. I wouldn't ever wake a sleeping baby. Rejoice.

(however, as PP says, if babe is newborn, prem or has any medical condition, then ignore this).

For a healthy baby, I would not wake them to feed them.

I fed on demand from birth (healthy, term baby). Sometimes he ate 30 minutes after his last feed; sometimes 3 or 4 hours. No way would I wake him up to feed - if your LO is hungry, she'll wake!

She’s 16 weeks, perfectly healthy and in 50th centile. I’ve always fed on demand but, if I feed when we go to bed 10/11pm, she will sleep through until 7am. If I don’t wake her, she wakes at 3/4am for a feed.

She’s going through a bit of a sleep regression whereby she takes a while to settle and fights her sleep a lot so once she finally does to sleep I feel guilty waking her again.

Things change as they grow, she may not wake at 3am for much longer, or it might move round to 5-6am which I'd consider sleeping through so I'd not wake or dream feed for a night or two to see if the pattern has changed. We get stuck in patterns that were absolutely necessary at e.g. 8 weeks then when they're 18 months old you suddenly realise you've basically created more work for yourself for ages

I’d wake her if it then means she goes through until 7am

By 16 weeks her tummy is probably big enough to hold enough food to sustain her for 7 or so hours. Hence sleeping from 9pm-3/4am or 11pm-7am. So whether or not to wake her for an 11pm feed depends on whether it's more disruptive for you (and her) to be woken at 11pm or at 3am - I don't think there's a definitive right or wrong answer 🤷🏼‍♀️

I would never wake my sleeping baby, but I would in your circumstances. Get some sleep!

Thanks for all of the advice! We have been waking her and she has been sleeping through until morning. If she’s been asleep less than an hour we leave her be and just feed her when she’s ready to wake up on her own but (touches wood) it’s not been taking as long to settle her so, on a good night she goes down at 7, wakes at 10-11 for feed and then sleeps through til 6-7!