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My baby was 6 lbs 7 oz but got jaundice and lost over 10% of her birth weight but got back over it and they still told me i have to wake her every 3 hrs😩
@Liv I feel so guilty that I have to keep waking her up for constant feeds 🙃 I hope I don’t have to always do this as we can’t get her into a routine 😩xx
@Rebecca my baby is starting to get the opposite. Shes sleeping longer throughout the day. Last night was our worst night yet. She woke up every hour😩 shes been doing so good idk what was up with last night
My baby is 3 weeks today, she lost 16% of her birth weight and was poorly with jaundice for the first 2 weeks of her life, she has to be fed every 2 hours - breast and bottle until she crosses her birth weight again!
@Liv how old is she? Xx
@Rebecca just turned 5 weeks on Thursday:)
Mine was 4lbs 13 oz. Dropped down to 4 lbs 3oz. We had to feed her every 2.5 hours instead of 3. She continued to wake herself up every 3 hours to feed for the first 3 months regardless. During the day I would recommend continuing to feed every 2.5-3.5 hours, but if theyre sleeping longer stretches at night...let them sleep
I’m a HV and also had 2 small babies (5lb 5oz and 5lb 13oz) I don’t give this advice. I look overall at day time feeding and sleeping plus weight. If baby is feeding well during the day lots of wet nappies, good colour, wake periods getting a bit longer, dirty nappies and good colour poo, mum not sore if breastfeeding then no need to wake overnight. Usually they will wake anyway even if they just have an extra hour or two it’s better for parents and gives you some sanity. It’s not usual that they would sleep like 7-9 hours
@Louise can I messsge you got loads of question xx
@Rebecca yes sure
As soon as the baby is above birth weight let baby sleep. As soon as my kids went pass birth weight I no longer woke them up. My twins were twin a was 5.15 and b 5.10. When twin A got to 8lbs I was told to stop waking her but she had weight issues