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We stopped waking at 4 weeks when she had gained tons of weight and pedi gave us the green light. I wouldn't wake her if I were you!

Eta- if she has gained enough and is thriving, of course!

My pediatrician said during the first couple weeks to only wake them up to feed them if it has been six hours or more.

My baby is about the same age...5 weeks on Friday. He had problems regaining weight initially and I was told to wake him to eat. He usually would wake up on his own before 3 hours was up anyway so I stopped setting an alarm. A few times he did sleep like 5 hours or so without waking and I would feel slightly guilty about it. However, his 1 month appt was today and he has gained 1.5 lb in 2 weeks so my doctor gave me the go ahead to let him sleep and just feed him when he wakes up. Have you had your 1 mo visit yet? If your baby is thriving, you should be able to let her sleep. If not, don't beat yourself up for skipping one feeding! We are all human afterall and it isn't going to change much based on one missed feeding

I only woke to feed during the first few weeks. Now that she's gained lots of weight I let her sleep as long as she wants. She's been sleeping 8 hrs at night and shes 5 weeks old!

We never had to wake her, she would wake on her own when she was very tiny and by the time she was 10 days old had established that she was eating on demand and gaining well, so our pediatrician said to let her eat when she wanted and sleep when she wanted! But if your LO had had some issues gaining, I can see why you would need to keep waking her, do you have any idea how she is doing with that recently?

We never woke LO up to eat. Before 2 weeks she would wake us up every 3-4 hours and she was gaining weight like a champ. At 2 weeks she started stretching out her sleeping, and we never woke her.

I would never wake C. She slept her first 7 hour stretch at 2 weeks old and I just let her go. They won't let themselves starve.

i think my pediatition oked to let him sleep at 3 weeks old. in the early early days she said to wake him up after 5 hours.

Our pedi told us once LO reached her birthweight again we didn't need to wake her to eat.

We got the OK to let LO sleep through the night around the third week. Until then, I fed her every three hours (she was a very sleepy baby and could sleep up to 6 hours if I had let her).

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We learned pretty early on to let her just sleep. She's consistently gaining weight and has regular diaper changes so it was never a problem.