12 week old EBF baby sleeping 8 hours at night

[FIrsttimeclapham]

I know I should probably just count myself lucky but I’m concerned that we have weaned our baby off her 4am feed too soon. She is EBF (I’m pumping and bottle feeding her as her latch was never good) and is 12 weeks old, she has a 5oz feed around 18:30 goes to bed at 19:30, has a dream feed of 5oz at 23:30 and then sleeps until 07:30 when she has another 5oz. I feed her every 3 hours during the day until 18:30. Is this ok? Or is 8 hours too long to go without a feed for a BF baby at this age?

It's fine. Mine slept through from 8 weeks. Lasted until 5/6 months and they started getting up again for a few months, once or twice a night. Enjoy!

If she is happy and gaining weight leave her to it! She will start waking up if she is hungry by that age

No that sounds amazing! Enjoy it while it lasts!

Two of the mothers in our group had these wonder babies. You are living the dream!

My 15 month old doesn't sleep 8 hours a night. Don't knock it.

You are doing a fantastic job! Be warned though it will chop and change. Mine is 2.5. Finally back to sleeping 8 hrs after a long 6month stretch of waking in the night 2/3 times.

It's fine

Enjoy it while it lasts! Both mine slept as newborns. And then not again until they started school.

Mine’s the same age and has slept anywhere from 8 to 12 hours for the last couple of weeks. She’s slept 6 hours plus since 6 weeks! DS never slept like this! Other than the insanely full boobs of a morning I’m just enjoying it whilst it lasts!

You have won the baby sleeping lottery. Enjoy. But also don’t stress if it goes wrong at the 4 month sleep regression.

As long as she’s gaining weight fine then it’s fine.

Thank you so much for the reassurance everyone. I better just enjoy it while it lasts 😄

Sounds like a dream! Just make sure she's having enough wet nappies and don't dehydrated from it (sunken soft spot) and should be all good x

Enjoy it whilst it lasts as everyone says. My first didn't do far off that at the same age until the regression, and it took her till she was 3 to (sometimes) get back to that again.

It's fine ... my DS was the same ... and never had sleep regression - just good luck I think.

As long as weight gain is fine then sleeping is too! My 12 week 1 day old ebf baby has slept for 9 hours the last 2 nights.