When can we drop night feeds?! Or at least go longer than the 3-4 hours? Our baby girl is just over 9 weeks and is gaining weight ok (she did go from 25th percentile at birth to now 9th percentile but is continuing to stay there and gaining ok), we are still feeding her through the night every 3 hours sometimes 4. We wake her up, she’s always fast asleep and I really do think she would continue sleeping if we left her. She’s generally only taking on average around the 610ml ish mark of formula in 24 hours though which is the lower end of what she should be having for her weight? (She last weighed 4.62kg on Thursday). So does this mean we will have to just keep continuing to feed her through the nights? It’s exhausting and we are struggling to keep it up and I’m worried she’s not taking enough formula!
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The general rule is as soon as they pass their birth weight- as long as they are gaining weight and healthy you never need to wake them.
However as you have dropped centiles you might want to ask your HV first!
If its any consolation, I just looked back and at 9 weeks my first baby took between 630ml and 730ml and she was on 50th centile and weighed around 11.5lbs then! So 610 doesnt sound that low if she is on 9th centile. Are you basing the amount off the tin? Its always really high. They usually say around 150ml per KG of body weight so thats 690 for you and not a huge variation- mine always took less and again she was big! She just wasnt a greedy girl

Honestly from birth my girl has been sleeping like 4/5 hours and her weight gain has been fine, she got back to her birth weight quickly shes a month now and falls asleep 12am then wakes up around 4/5 and then at 9/10 and again this is better for me as i can get some sleep but also we feed her enough throughout the day we never followed any 3 hours wakeup rule but each to their own x

I would ask your hv if you’re worried about doing it! My lo was tiny when born and I wasn’t asked to wake him up during the night only during the day until he was putting weight on! He’s 7 weeks and he lets us know during the night and day now when he’s hungry lol! He generally will go between 3-6 hours during the day friending on if we’re out and he’s in the pram if we’re at home he will feed every 3-4 hours ! At night he will go to bed about 10.30/11pm and last five hours before another feed then 3 hours then we’re up before the next feed!
I’m sure she would be fine and will wake you if hungry! You might be just catching her at the right time before she wakes up herself x
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