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I woke mine up the first few weeks to feed him every two hours as the pediatrician suggested, but once we hit about 10 weeks, I decided it was ridiculous and to never wake a sleeping baby. Some days he'll sleep like what sleeps all day, and other days he'll do 2 short naps.

The only time I will wake him up is if he goes down really late and I want him up some before his normal bedtime (6:30 p.m.)...and I have to confess that the few times I've needed to go do something and he's been asleep a long time, I went upstairs and banged around to see if he would wake up

@Mae, at 7 weeks your LO can't stay awake very long, so I went with 2 hours max of keeping him up before bedtime.

I'm also a big fan personally of putting babies to bed super early with the theory of "sleep begets sleep." Around 8 weeks we noticed our son getting sleepy around 8 p.m. and set his bedtime then and did the whole routine. It did involve another MOTN feeding though, but it was around midnight or so and he went right back to sleep.

I know a lot of mom's who put baby to sleep early and then did a "dream feed" when they went to bed, and it sounds like it might be worth trying since you kind of do something similar now? And the fact she sleeps so well at this age is amazing, congrats!!

I am super type a too and I really struggled with my first. Once I let go, life got a lot easier. I read in the moms on call book to never let them sleep more than 2 hours during the day past right weeks old so it doesn't interfere with their nighttime sleep. Perhaps in a week or two give that a go. I've found with both my kids things took a great turn right about 8 weeks old.

Nope cause she never took long enough naps!

Around 5/6 weeks is when we noticed C getting tired every night around 6:30/7. So we started putting her to bed. She did her wakeup at ~2:30 and then every 3 hours after for a couple weeks and then slept her first 12+ hour night straight through at 8 weeks.

Im a believer in letting them set their bedtime. It sounds like she's doing that for you. I'd roll with it and just put her down at 8. It didn't translate to more night wakeups for us.

As for naps, we only woke her if it got too close to bedtime.

@Mae: oh C was a master at fighting naps. And all the sleep books and experts are like, at that age they should only be awake for and hour, two hours, Max, at a time. And I was like, I KNOW!!!!! Tell my baby! Putting her in the moby and walking as walking and walking worked for us.

Our motn wake ups were really long at that age too. Eventually, and I can't remember when, I started doing only one side if she fell asleep on the first side. Didn't seem to affect how quickly she woke up again. You probably would want to wait a few more weeks for that while your supply is gettig established and she's still growing so fast right now.

@Mae: I was pumping and supplementing (heavily) at that point. She just started eating more at each feeding, but still ate every 3 hours during the day. I wasn't forcing her to eat more, she just naturally started regulating to daytime eating.

She was NOT a sleepy baby, so I never woke her!

@Mae: I used to be type a and this is what I struggled with most. I was so so much happier once I finally gave up trying to manipulate his sleep. He is usually a great sleeper (19m) but still ranges his wake ups from 6:30-8:30 and throws a three hour nap and sometimes zero nap. There has never been any specific correlation between day sleep and night sleep for him even when he was small.

I 100% now follow the never wake a sleeping baby rule