7 week not sure if he's awake n needs feeding

[cloboe]

My 7 week old son, seems to start stirring at 3-4 hours after sleeping and will then start thumb sucking, but will drift between that and falling back asleep. I unsure whether to get him up to feed then (which I have been) or waiting untill he's properly awake.
He used to wake and cry for a feed and now that's stopped but I don't want to wait to long to feed him if he's hungry.

In all honesty if he’s hungry he would cry out so I would leave him!

I’d leave him. If he’s really hungry he’ll let you know, or he might learn to sleep longer (🤞🤞🤞)

Is he gaining weight well and healthy? If so leave him to sleep, he'll let you know when he's hungry.

Has he been putting on weight and are the health visitors happy with his progress? At my DS’s 10 day appointment he was back to his birth weight and the HV said there was no need to keep waking him every 3 hours to feed - he would just wake when hungry. Though at that age they still said wake him after 5 hours I think.

At 7 weeks, if he he feeds well and then wants to have a longer stretch of sleep (as my now 1 year DS always generally has done), I would just let him sleep, get some sleep yourself and wait until he lets you know he’s hungry!

If you fully wake him for a feed then there's a risk he'll become used to it and want that feed without being fully woken by you. If you just leave him until he cries he might learn to go back to sleep.

Definitely leave him, he's probably just moving through the sleep cycle. He'll cry/ make some proper noise if he needs a feed.

Because God forbid a 7 week old should have a drink/snack in the night 🙄

I've had something similar to this, my 9 week old is a good sleeper and eater (almost 30oz a day 5 x 6oz bottles). They used to have their last feed at around 10.30 then waken at 4.30ish and again around 9.

The last couple of nights they have fed at 11 and slept right through until 9am! I am worried that's too long without milk, however they are thriving and putting on weight. Should I wake them to feed (bottle fed) or should I count my blessings?

I would leave it until he wakes properly. He's learning to self soothe.

If they're growing as they should by 7 weeks I'd leave them. If they're just fussing it's possibly because one sleep cycle has ended and they're heading in to the next one. If they want you they'll let you know.

Definitely leave him! If he’s hungry he’ll let you know. Both of mine happily did 8 hour stints overnight from 6 weeks- thumb sucker DD fully slept through whilst DS needed the odd dummy replace, but neither needed milk.

Thanks for the advice I shall see how it goes this evening.