I'm prepared to be flamed and told to just relax but I'm a FTM, who suffers with anxiety (for which I'm getting support for) and due to covid I don't have the same real life support network around me right now.
My DS turns 10 weeks today. He has always been an easy going baby apart from being a velcro baby. Day time naps are always on me or DH. He tends to wake fairly quickly once put down during the day. This used to be the same a night time but in the last 3/4 weeks he has been able to do long stretches in his side sleeper.
Here is my question, he used to wake about 3 times for a feed between midnight and half 7, then went down to twice,then once and for the last three nights in a row he has slept from approx 10pm to 6/6:30am when he up for the day. This morning he didn't even seem to be that much of a rush for his bottle but I made one anyway and he had the full 6oz (he usually has between 4-6oz at every feed). He was all smiles and coos,no crying when he woke up so he appeared quite content and not ravenous. His last bottle was the night before at 8pm and it was 6:40am when he woke up. That seemed like an enormous amount of time in between.
He still thrashes about in the night and I have to put his dummy back in a million times so my sleep is still a bit patchy and I've been panicking that during one of these thrashing about moments, he was actually hungry and in a sleepy daze I've just popped his dummy back in and fallen back to sleep rather than feed him. Logically I know newborns dont think to themselves 'mum is tired,bless her I'll leave her sleep, I can wait for a bottle" but will scream the house down if hungry - he definitely has during the day if I've missed his hunger cues. He is also a good weight (13lbs 3oz) and feeds plenty during the day so I'm sure he is fine but I cant help but worry that this isn't normal. The health advisor told me at 2weeks it was fine when he did a 5hour sleep,that when he is sleeping he is growing and not to worry. He also had his jabs so he might be just tired from them and this pattern will end.
Should I just enjoy this while it lasts or would you also be worried?