5 week old - seeping through night

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So my 5 week old baby has a cold and has struggled to sleep all day. We put her down at 10 and I have woken up now (4:30) as she sneezed but she's still asleep!

Should I be waking her for feeds? She always goes at least 4 hours.

I'd leave her. If she's full of a cold then she needs to sleep to get better. When she's hungry she'll wake. I'm in the exact same position with my 5 week old DD funnily enough!

Let her sleep. She'll wake when she's hungry. You can reassess in a couple of hours if you're worried. I've honestly found that waking them (even for the right reasons), leads to very cross babies. That being said of course there will be times when you feel that the need to wake outweighs the risk of waking.

My 1st slept through the night regularly from 6 weeks and my 3rd sporadically from birth but more reliably from 10 weeks. A friend who has a 7wo said he has slept through since birth every single night and her midwife and health visitor said not to worry about waking for feeds beyond the first couple of weeks.

You never know, once she gets a taste of a full nights sleep, she might think it's an excellent idea. I hope she's better soon.

She woke, took 1.5oz and went back to sleep 🙁. Will take her to GP later today just purely as she should be taking more when she's actually awake