Has anyone else had completely conflicting advice about overnight feeds?

My little girl is 10 weeks old. She struggled with her weight initially, but she’s now 5.84 kg and gaining well.

A week ago we were told it was absolutely fine to let her sleep and not wake her every 3 hours overnight anymore. We’ve finally started getting the odd 5–6 hour stretch, which has been amazing for both of us.

Then today, a different health visitor told us that advice was wrong and that we should still be waking her every 3 hours because breasts are always producing milk, babies don’t know it’s night time, and there are hormones in overnight milk that she’d be missing out on.

Now I’m completely confused! 😅

Has anyone else been given conflicting advice? If your baby was gaining weight well around 10 weeks, were you still waking them every 3 hours overnight, or did you let them wake naturally?

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Once she was over birth weight we let her sleep overnight as much as she wanted, baring in mind this was at 2 weeks old because she finally started sleeping well and had been having consistent wet and dirty nappies, she followed her curve well 4 months old now and might even be above at this point lol x

I wasn't given conflicting advice but at 8 weeks I mentioned that my little girl was starting to sleep longer and that I hadn't necessarily been waking her every 3 hours to feed (breastfeeding), and my health visitor said thats absolutely fine, why would I deprive myself of sleep and wake her, she'll wake if she's hungry!

Since then I've followed baby girls lead and just fed on demand, she's now 18 weeks and continues to gain as expected.

Breastfeeding can be hard enough as it is, you're obviously doing an amazing job and she's gaining well so don't put more pressure on yourself than you have to.

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