Waking for feeds at night

I feed on demand, so only when I hear her wake. For me, I’ve found it’s better to get up & feed her when she stirs, rather than cry’s - as then she goes back to sleep a lot easier afterwards.

Yer, at night we only feed when she wakes, or at least stirs. Tonight she slept from 1am till 6am so got kinda dream fed, burped and is now back on my chest pretty much still asleep

I’m exclusively breastfeeding and baby girl was above her birth weight from day 5 hers never dropped. From day 5 midwife told me to feed on demand. I’ve been feeding on demand and if I notice it is getting close to 3.5-4 hours will wake her up to feed because the gap in between this young shouldn’t be more than 4 hours I’ve been advised. Right now she is going through a growth spurt so she will wake herself up at 12/1 and be up until 4-5 cluster feeding. Before I’d wake her up at 3 and change and feed her and she would fall asleep nursing so I think definitely feeding before they’re full blown crying will help with settling them to sleep a little quicker

My girl is just shy of three weeks and the last couple of nights I’ve let her dictate when she wants feeding. She rarely goes beyond 4 hours between but I don’t wake her at night anymore. It seems to be working, I’m getting a little more sleep and she is far happier than she was being woken up 🤷‍♀️

My 3 week old is waking himself up for feeds which he has done since 2 weeks old, occasionally I will need to wake him for feeds as it gets a bit close to 4 hours but he seems a lot more settled as when I was waking him up he was only taking a small amount and waking up hungry an hour later!!

After 2 weeks I sacked the 3hr alarms once she was well over birth weight. Now I just feed when she’s hungry usually she won’t go past 4/5hrs without being hungry !

This is so bizarre to me ive just had my 3rd baby and never been advised to wake them up or set an alarm