When did you stop waking for night feedings?

[cherry1111]

I know DS is still way too young to let him continue sleeping, but I wouldn't mind having some sort of timeline in mind for when I can let him keep sleeping and just feed him when he demands it overnight. I miss long stretches of sleep! I will ask the pedi her opinion at our next appt, but curious when you did it. If it makes any difference he was 6lb 4oz at birth and at 10 days (yesterday) he was 6lb 11oz.

[Ashley&Scott]

Every baby is different. M still wakes to nurse 1-3 times per night & he'll be 1 in a few weeks.

ETA: I completely misread. Once they're back to birth weight you can usually let them sleep as long as they like.

[pugz]

we stopped waking to feed once she hit her birth weight, so at 2 weeks. She would then wake up every 3-4 hours on her own

[ijack]

When they have a proven history of good weight gain - it looks like he's on his way! At this age I would probably let her go at least one 4hr stretch at night.

[hocus]

I did sleep training for my older child to drop feedings at 11 months. She was probably ready before I was. My second child gave them up on his own around 9 months.

Both my kids fell into a once a night wake up by 5 months or so and I found that I was pretty functional with that.

I've read pretty much all the good sleep books and most say that 4-6 months is the window when you can start training.

ETA: I miss read this. I never had to wake my older child at night, she was up on her own. I don't think I bothered with any of that with my second kid. He woke up when he work up and ate when he wanted.

[pierogigirl]

I never had to wake either baby, but they were crap sleepers. DS2 just turned 1 and he's up at least 1-2 times a night. He only sttn once so far.

[MamaMaui24]

once he reached birth weight ~ 1 week.

[Deleted]

I waited til he hit 10 lbs... But he was pretty clockwork with food. First 8 weeks were 24/7 nursing and then after that it was every 3 hours.

[quickstepstar]

Dec 28, 2012 14:51:09 GMT -5 cherry1111 said:

I know DS is still way too young to let him continue sleeping, but I wouldn't mind having some sort of timeline in mind for when I can let him keep sleeping and just feed him when he demands it overnight. I miss long stretches of sleep! I will ask the pedi her opinion at our next appt, but curious when you did it. If it makes any difference he was 6lb 4oz at birth and at 10 days (yesterday) he was 6lb 11oz.

I vaguely remember it is when baby takes 24oz during the day (no idea how to measure if the baby is BF) and either 7 or 9 lb. ~6 weeks maybe?

ETA: Ignore me. I misread. That's when you can start sleep training

[dcn]

I let him sleep after his 2 week appt and he was over birth weight. He's never slept more than 4.5 hours though. But two of those back to back is heaven when they happen!!

[bunch]

Two weeks, birth weight. I would have sooner but she lost a lot of weight out of the gate and we may or may not have been starving her because we misread our discharge instructions :/

[zeewifeandmama]

Never woke to feed either one. Both were back to birthweight at their 3 day post discharge well checks.

Eta: neither ever slept more than a 3 hour stretch so I was never really concerned.

[Deleted]

Ditto once he's back to his birth weight, he can sleep as long as he wants.

[dragonfly08]

I never woke either of my kids for feedings, even DD #1, who gained weight very slowly in the first month. The ped. said as long as she wasn't *losing*, which she wasn't, we just needed to monitor her and I shouldn't let her go more than 6-7 hours or so, but since that never happened I never had to worry about it.

[sewpinkgal]

Once he was back to birth weight, we could stop waking to feed him. He, however, continued to wake to eat 3-5x/night until 7 months old.

[Deleted]

I never woke him. He was back to birth weight by the time we left the hospital though (over 9 lbs). It honestly never occurred to me too so I'm glad it was okay lol. He woke every 4 to 6 hours at night on his own.

[DarcyLongfellow]

I never woke DD to feed her. Even though she actually lost more weight than they wanted. I didn't know that was something people did, and my doctor never mentioned it.

[Deleted]

Dec 28, 2012 14:53:16 GMT -5 pugz said:

we stopped waking to feed once she hit her birth weight, so at 2 weeks. She would then wake up every 3-4 hours on her own

:Y:

[Deleted]

We never woke the baby. She slept a 6 hour stretch during her first week or two and I set the alarm but could not make myself wake her.

[cherry1111]

Awesome. I'm setting my alarm and waking him for 2 feedings a night. Tonight I'm going to let him tell me when he wants to eat! Thanks all.

[GailGoldie]

once our boys were about 5w old we started letting them both sleep as long as they could (i had twins, so a little different situation.... b/c we wanted to feed at the same time those first 5 weeks).

they were STTN at 8 weeks (from 10pm-7am) -- we followed Babywise for the most part - eating/napping in a 3-hour cycle all day long. If we went to 4 hours during the day it screwed them up at night- so they always ate every 2.5-3.5 hours during the day.

[catbus]

We got the official go-ahead when E was five days old. He was born 7 lb. 12 oz., down to 7 lb. 9 oz. upon hospital discharge, and was up to 8 lb. by five days after birth. From what I know, doctors want to see baby back at birth weight before you stop waking for feedings.

I actually totally don't remember waking him to eat, though... I think he was doing four-hour stretches in the beginning and I definitely wasn't setting an alarm in the middle of the night.

[Deleted]

We never woke to feed at night because dd was back at her birthweight when we were discharged. We only woke to feed during the day for the first few weeks to make sure she had her days and nights sorted.

[nevermind]

With my first kid we waited until he was back at birth weight. With the second we never woke to feed except during the day.

[Brie]

I never did. My pedi was like, "official advice is to keep waking until they pass birth weight. But off the record, he's fine." My baby was giant though. He's always slept reasonably long stretches at night.

[gibbinator]

My Dr was surprised we were still waking him at his 1 week check up. We stopped after that