So I've been wearing my 7 week old baby in the Sleepy Wrap today and he has napped rather well...a little too well! This is his afternoon nap, and it's getting close to his bedtime! He hasn't eaten in 4 hours now and so I'm wondering if I should wake him up to feed him and then keep him awake for about 1.5 hours (or less if he shows signs of sleepiness) and then try to get him down for the night? I just don't know whether I should wake napping babies! It's so hard to get them to sleep in the first place that when it happens, I'm always wary of waking them up! I figure he would wake up on his own if he needed to, so what do you girls think? Do you ever wake up your LO if you find they are taking too long of a nap? Will this mess with their bedtime?
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I feed at 9a, noon, 3p, 6p, and last day feeding at 9. I try and stay as close as possible to those times so I wake if he's sleeping. At night I only get up when he gets me up.
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I always woke him after 3 hours during the day once I realized that we ONLY get one long stretch out of him and I don't want to waste it during the day!
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We woke our LO to stay on his feeding schedule. But he is a preemie and gaining weight was a huge deal so we had to stick to his feeding patterns. If your LO doesn't have weight issues, and this won't effect night sleep, I don't see the point of waking a sleeping baby.
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I have to wake my LO up from his morning nap so he's tired enough for a longer afternoon nap. But he's much older! For an LO that small, I wouldn't.
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At 7 weeks old, I would wake my LO up if he went longer than 4 hours without eating. His pediatrician said it would help him keep his days and nights straight as long as he was eating every 3-4 hours during the day. I was also concerned about him gaining enough weight at that point as he's always been at a lower percentile.
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Nope never wake a sleeping baby!!!!
Edit - as a newborn I was supposed to wake my baby up every 3 hrs to eat buy he never slept that long at first.
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@littlecasita1122: Exactly. Until he got his days and nights straight we woke him if he napped too long (otherwise the night would be horrible).
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