Night Sleep for a 8 week old!

[sassy123]

my bubs is 6 weeks and she sleeps from 10 till 430 then at 6 she will want another feed. kinda makes up for the one she misses. i was waking her for feeds but she was mucking around heaps so as soon as i left her she started drinking her bottles better

[Marlene]

If your baby is putting on plenty of weight there is no need to wake her.

[sunshine_sieben]

Unless there are issues (as in poor weight gain or problems with supply) I would never wake a sleeping baby. In my opinion, if we needed an alarm clock to have our babies thrive, the human species would have long died out. I guess what I'm trying to say is: take your clues from her. She's obviously happy to sleep longer, so let her. She might cluster feed in the evenings or mornings to make up for it.
The only other reason for waking a sleeping baby would be to offer a roll-over feed. For example if you put her to sleep by 7pm and then go to bed by 10pm yourself and every night she wakes up at 11pm for a feed and ten sleeps through the rest of the night, it would make sense to wake her just before you go to bed to give her that feed in the hopes to maximise your own sleep time IYKWIM

Saša

[Nadine216]

Don't wake her!!! Someone on here said it just right: " let sleeping babies lie"
I do agree with Sasa on the roll-over feed, for your own sanity's sake

I had to wake dd every three hours for a feed (premmie, low weight) and she has only just started sleeping through (she's almost 18 months) ... not whole heartedly, but almost there, kwim??