is it ok to wake a sleeping baby?

[megandtyler]

hi
my four week old ds has slept for over three hours and should have been fed two hours ago. should i wake him up or leave him to sleep ?

i wish
dd has me playing playdoh

I'd wake him up - else he'll have you up all night

As long as LO isn't missing feeds regularly then I'd leave him to sleep.

i'd leave him

ok so i have left him to sleep
he's now been asleep four hours
still leave him to sleep?

i would wake myself. never did with dd1 and was up lots and night. did wake dd2 and had better nights. but that could just be a coincidence....

What do you want to do? Four hours is a decent amount of time for a proper sleep.

I'd probably go in and give him a wee nudge to wake up, open the curtains a little and see if he stirs.

If he doesn't seem to want to wake up, perhaps give him another 30 minutes. At least he should wake up hungry and have a good feed!

I'd still leave.

Never wake a sleeping baby, that's my motto.

I always woke mine up in the day to make sure they were getting their 2-3 hourly feeds in and NEVER woke them between 7pm-7am and never had to feed them much at night at all (bf) could be coincidence of course.

he's so peaceful and he probably neds to catch up with some zzz's as he has been really crabby the last few days and has hardly slept in the day.
Dh turn for night feed perhaps i'll leave him another half hour

I used to wake my DD every3/4 hrs, got her into a good rountine of feeding.

ahh he just woke up and is screaming for attention
thanks everyone

A sleep is as good as a feed thats what ive been told x

Leave him to slep. He will wake when he is hungry.

I leave DD to sleep and she can sometimes have 6 hours in the day but still sleeps at night.