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I stopped waking him up to eat once he regained his newborn weight, which was about day 6.

My doctor also said once S had gained enough to bring her to birth weight, we could stop waking her to feed. That was at her two week appt.

@Alivoo01: when we were discharged from the hospital the doctor said we didn't have to wake her to eat anymore. As long as he is gaining weight, I wouldn't worry about waking him up. Enjoy the longer stretches of sleep, he'll wake up when he's hungry

@Alivoo01: LO was also 3 weeks early. Doc said it was fine to let him sleep. Enjoy it!

@Alivoo01: my midwife told me at my 6 week appointment to let her sleep, but not longer than 6 or 7 hours.

@Alivoo01: DS is 6 weeks old (tomorrow!) and he doesn't sleep anywhere near 6 hours unfortunately. He sleeps 3-4 hours currently but I don't foresee our schedule changing when he does sleep longer.

We bottle feed, too. My husband and I take turns feeding him at night when he wakes up. We let him wake on his own, and then we give him a bottle of pumped milk and change his diaper. If I am feeding, I pump after. If DH is feeding, he wakes me up to pump during and then I go back to sleep. We wait to change pee diapers until LO wakes up on his own. We do wake him for poopy diapers but he doesn't typically poop in his sleep anymore.

When he starts sleeping longer stretches I will just wake up every 3 hours to pump

We never woke her up to eat, she always woke up but doctor said we didn't need to once she was back to birth weight.

@sslm: can your baby please speak to my baby about proper sleep habits?! That's awesome! B still does 2-4 hour stretches.

@rahlyrah: @Alivoo01: yeah, well aware we are incredibly lucky!!! She still follows a similar schedule at 14 weeks. I hope your babies start sleeping longer soon!!!!!