We had to wake d up every 3 hours at night but now that he surpasses his birthrate, the Dr said he could go 5 hours at night. Not going to lie the extra sleep would be nice but with all the breastfeeding struggles and weight gain a issues, I'm worried to so it.
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When she reached her birth weight. Then we let her sleep as long as she wanted.
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We waited until she was back at birth weight.
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I never could wake T up to eat. He absolutely refused when we tried the first night in the hospital so I just left him alone. If we succeeded in waking him he usually was too sleepy and disoriented to latch. I found he didn't want to go any longer than 3 hours without milk anyway...sleep or not!
I would say you're in the clear!! If you're worried about supply maybe you can throw in a pumping session to calm your mind?
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I never did at night, but at first he didn't sleep in very long stretches, so it wasn't an issue. Even when we had some weight gain issues at the beginning, the doctor said never to wake him to eat at night, only during the day.
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I never woke her up to eat, but she didn't really lose much weight and the hospital never said I had to. For the first week or she woke up every few hours on her own anyways.
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I never woke my daughter to eat, the hospital nurses/dr said not to wake her at night, but wake her every 3-4hrs during the day. The first few weeks she could sleep 5-6 hours at night, so I enjoyed it. She was and is totally on track for weight gain.
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Once he regained his birth weight (right around 2 weeks), we stopped waking him at night to eat.
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Once she reached her birth weight which was within 7 days.
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I wish I had to wake him up to eat - unfortunately he is clockwork and wakes up to eat exactly every 3 hours, his timing is actually so impressive that I can't even be mad. But I would let him sleep! Take the opportunity to sleep yourself - and deal with my jealousy! The NICU nurses always told me, babies grow when they're sleeping - i would wake him up during the day to eat, but not at night. Oh and LO is 3 weeks old.
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@chibee: don't be jealous, he was up all night eating lol.
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As others said we were given the okay to let him sleep once he regained his birthweight, which for us was at 5 days old. He's never slept more than 4-5 hours, though, even now at 16 weeks, so it hasn't been an issue.
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Ha! We never had to wake her, she woke up plenty on her own.
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Ours was a preemie, so we had to wake him (when necessary) until we reached his due date. He wasn't much of a sleeper, so it wasn't usually a problem
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She woke up frequently for the first 3 weeks!
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About 2 weeks, she did a 5 hour stretch. By 4 weeks she was doing 8 hour stretches, almost every night.
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I never woke my babies up in the night. I just let them sleep and figured they would wake when hungry. It worked fine for my two - they both gained quickly and are healthy - but they were large at birth and I was lucky that they were both efficient nursers.
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once the ped gave us the "weight gain all clear"
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