One Month Old's Nursing Schedule

I wouldn't wake him!! If your Dr. is OK with it, by all means get some sleep :)

My son was sleeping through the night (8-10 hours) at 8 weeks. The pediatrician said as long as he has active waking hours and is gaining weight and healthy...to never wake him!

oh don't wake him up! he will wake up if he is hungary, and if he is sleeping for long stretches that means you get to sleep for long stretches! Ya! With my second I didn't ever wake him up, right from the time he was born I let him decide when he wanted to eat and he turned out just fine.

Let him wake up. He knows when he's hungry and will wake up on his own. I never woke my 22 month daughter when she was a newborn/baby to eat. He'll figure out his own patterns to eat. Sounds like your doing great otherwise and congrats on the new baby. :)

At night let him sleep as long as he wants, as long as your doctor is ok with his weight gain. It sounds like he is if he told you to let him sleep. During the day I would wake him if he goes longer than 3 hours.

I breastfed for 20 months. My theory while she was tiny was that if I wasn't going to go to bed until 10 pm...I would wake her up to eat if it was close to 3 hours. This would allow me to sleep a larger chunk of time, which was always good for everybody. Oh do I remember agonizing about these math questions when she was little...enjoy every minute! :)

Never wake a sleeping (healthy) baby!

The BEST nursing advice I EVER got was watch the BABY, NOT the clock! As long as he's making enough wet diapers and is growing good, it's good.

My son came home from the hospital on about a 5 hour cycle-- he'd sleep for 5 hours then nurse 5-6 times in the next 5 hours and repeat-- it seems like he did that for about the first two months.

I take that back--if baby is sleeping while you're home and slurping bottles while you're at work it helps the whole pumping/milk supply AND mother/baby bond to wake the baby every two hours when you're home AND awake to nurse-- but that wasn't until 4-6 months

Let him wake you! Enjoy the sleep!! My two week old just did that tonight. She's been going four hours between feedings at night since we brought her home from the hospital. Tonight she went six hours! Of course I woke up totally ready to feed her, and I was tempted to go wake her, but I let her sleep. She's been cluster feeding in the evenings, and her diapers are full of what they're supposed to be, so I know my baby is getting enough from me.

I was told not to wake a sleeping baby. Believe me you will want the break. I nursed for a year. And every two to three hours I was awake. Now my son is 4 yrs old. I still wake up every 3 hrs. He will let you know when he is hungry. Also if you wake up, I would pump so you do not get so full. That is what I did. In the middle of the day for a break I would give him a bottle or let my husband feed him, so he could share that time with him too.

It's really up to you. I used to put my babies (now 2, 4, 6) in a bouncy seat near me while I watched TV after the 7pm feeding and wake them around 9:30 for daddy to play with them (he works late), then at 10 or 11 I would give them their final feeding before we all went up to bed. My 3rd would sleep until 5am! My first would sleep only until 2 :(
If you're okay with being awakened at midnight, then make 7pm your last feeding, but mine would only give me one 4-5 hour stretch and then were back on to every 3 hours. If you want him to sleep until 5am, then make it 10. When he's older though you'll go to a more reasonable 7pm/8pm bed time.
There are some great sleep books out there that I used as Bibles "Happiest Baby on the Block" and "Happy Sleep Habits Happy Child".
Good luck, and congratulations!

The baby will wake up when he needs to eat. Don't worry about waking him up. I never wake them up to feed them at night...they always end up waking up on their own to nurse:-) Your baby will let you know when he's hungry!

Let him wake you. I never woke LO in the night (after I'd gone to sleep) from birth.

Few babies need help waking at night to feed (sometimes this is necessary with preemies or certain health problems). Your little guy will wake up when he's hungry, and as long as you are able to hear and respond to him, all is well. 4-5 hour stretches are fine. Be aware that as he enters big growth spurts, he may need to feed more often at night. He will let you know.

I have always woken DS at 10ish for a dream feed. A lot of mommies I know do it too. That way it gives me a good chunk of hours to sleep at night. DS started STTN at 7 weeks with this dream feed.

Make sure you keep nursing every 3 hours during the day and once the baby is ready he will start STTN.

I have never woke either of my children on purpose.

My three month old has slept in 5 hour stretches at night since day 1 and she is growing like a weed. Thankfully she is a very effective little nursling. I put her to sleep downstairs at about 8, right after my two year old goes to bed. Then when I go to bed around 10 or 11 I bring her upstairs with me and change her diapers, swaddle, and feed her for a few minutes. Then I lay her down in the co-sleeper and she will sleep until 6-7. I feed her then and she is usually back down until 9-10.

Have I mentioned she is the most perfect baby that was ever born?

If you are going to wake him at all I would wake and feed right before you go to bed yourself for the night. I would not get up every three hours throughout the night. If he is sleeping, he wants to be sleeping. As long as there are no medical issues, I would let him sleep until he wakes to eat.

never wake a sleeping baby.

as he gets older and bigger he will sleep longer through the night.. and one day he will sleep all the way through the night. my kids did a long stretch of sleep say 7 pm till 2 am.. (7 hours..) but then often ate at 2 adn again at 4 or 5 am.

Sometimes I would try to fed them at 10 pm when I went to bed.. in hopes they would sleep through the night.. but sleeping through the night is develoopmental.. their tummy's have to get bigger, their brains have to grow and learn how to put themself back tosleep...

Unless he's showing obvious signs of not getting enough to eat them let him sleep. If he's having enough wet diapers, isn't fussy all the time, is gaining and growing he's fine. As a baby gets older it gets better at getting milk out of the breast and can get what they need faster and more efficiently. Your body also gets better at making the milk they need faster.
Let him wake you, he'll know when he's hungry and will let you know. Babies do their growing while they sleep.
Congratulations!

It's okay for him to sleep a single five hour stretch. He should be nursing at least 8 times per day, it does not matter if the feedings are evenly spaced or not.

let him sleep and have him wake you when he his hungry and needs a diaper change, my daughter slept from around 9pm to 4 or 5 am from a week hold which was perfect for me because i got plunty of sleep and she slept with me after her first feeding