Overnight sleep (7 week old)

Hey, my little one currently 7 weeks so not on a schedule or anything yet.

So, my little one, on a night does a first longer stretch of sleep which it about 3-4 hours. But how now seems to be having this longer bit of sleep on an evening as more of a nap more around 6pm ish. rather than actually at night as part of the after bed time sleep.

Would people recommend i wake him up during the longer evening nap? Then hopefully he will have a longer stretch of sleep after bedtime.

I dont want to wake him up if it going to make him overtired and then not sleep properly overnight. Hence i haven’t woke him so far.

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I would probably wake them, or at least give it a try one night and see what happens. It’s only one night and if it is a disaster you’ll know for the next night :)
I have a toddler now so there is basically no way my newborn doesn’t get woken up between 6 and 8 pm (her bedtime). My June baby is currently going to bed for longer stretch around 10pm but at that age it was more like 11-12pm

I wouldn’t wake at all. I never wake a sleeping baby especially at 7 weeks old where they need like 14-17 hours of sleep a day.
At 7 weeks my LG was doing similar. Napping from around 7pm until 10:30pm. And then she’d go to bed with us around 11:30pm. It wasn’t long after that that she was sleeping through 11:30-6:30.

We didn’t have a schedule. We followed baby cues and she naturally fell into a loose schedule. She’s now 7 months and has a bedtime of 8-8:30pm and sleeps through the night without issues. We didn’t introduce a scheduled bedtime until she was 6 months

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