I know I am supposed to be feeding LO every 3 hours, but it kills me to wake her up right after she goes to sleep! She takes a long time to eat, and fights naps, so by the time I get her down, I should be waking her up to eat again. Case in point: She ate from 8:30-9:30 (40 min of nursing & then a bottle since we're supplementing) and then was awake until about 11. It's now 1145 & I know she should be back up by now & eating but I feel like newborns need their sleep! What to do?
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I would let her sleep
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How's her weight doing? I know you're supposed to start the clock from when they start eating, but I always did it from when she stopped and never had any issues with M's weight or my supply.
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ditto. i would let her sleep unless there was a serious medical issue. our ped advised us at the beginning to feed every 3 hours and i regret waking LO up for those feedings. sometimes i couldn't even wake him up anyway.
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If you're supplementing and don't want to, then you need to wake her up in order to increase your supply, otherwise your body will decrease not increase, unless you pump instead.
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How's her weight? If she isn't a peanut, then I'd suggest letting her sleep. LO weighed 4.5 lbs at birth and I would wake him to feed him.
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I do agree with @junebugmama: though, if you're looking to stop supplementing then I would wake her, otherwise you're body won't start producing more.
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She doesn't need to wake, but your supply needs her to eat every 3 hours. So if you want to cut out supplementing you needt to keep her on schedule.
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@junebugmama: Good point!!! I didn't think about that!
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what @junebugmama: said!
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@junebugmama: I beleive this is how I lost my supply.
My supply was always low, but LO started STTN at 10w old and boom- lost my supply.
So, I'd wake her and feed her at every chance I got.
Then again---once they get back to their birth weight and plus some, you're good to go. You don't have to wake them to feed anymore. -
Another idea to help with supply is pumping if your LO is sleeping extended hours.
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If you don't want to wake her then don't. Trust your gut mama. She's gaining ok now and there is nothing wrong with supplementing.
I would let the baby sleep and pump instead, since you're up anyway. 45 mins is not a long enough rest for either of you.
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Unless her weight is just very low, I'd skip it. You know her best!
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If you dont want to wake her, then pump!
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Thanks everyone! We ended up seeing a LC yesterday who said we could go up to 4 hrs if she just fell asleep. I think she will sleep better on our new plan too so hopefully it will all work out!
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