Waking to feed suddenly

My midwife told me never wake a sleeping baby. Yes you get some that will say dont go longer than 4 hours without feeding but a baby won't go hungry so if there sleeping let them they will tell you when there hungry. At first I was clock watching waking him until I spoke to this midwife I now find he feeds better because he is feeding when he wants/needs to not when I want him to cos am clock watching.

I think as long as your baby is gaining weight and having wet and dirty nappies it’s all good. We were told to wake our twins as they were prem to make sure they were growing but now we know they’re growing well my HV said not to stress as long as wet / dirty nappies & growth. At night they starting going from 3/4 hrs to more like 6 and it happened quite randomly but they’re still growing and will wake after 3hrs if hungry X

4-5 hour stretches at this point is completely normal. As long as they are gaining weight and having lots of wet and dirty nappies then they are getting enough milk so don't worry about a few feeds being an hour or 2 further apart than before! I think the every 3 hours thing is to make sure they're gaining weight properly in the first couple of weeks so as long as that's happening you can feed them when they want it. Mine is almost 5 weeks and sleeping for 5 hour stretches sometimes now she's getting a bit chunkier!

I got told by my health visitor if baby is over birth weight, alot of wet and dirty nappies during the night it's not needed to wake baby up unless they wake you up or any medical conditions that you may have to wake them up for feed. During the day it's 3 hours, I wake up my baby from naps if she goes to the 3 hours mark but she normally wakes up before anyways

If she’s gained birth weight and weeing and pooing midwife said they can go over 4 but probably not over 5/6 x