What to Expect When You're Breast-feeding... and What If You Can't? by Clare Byam-Cook

Author:Clare Byam-Cook
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781407029153
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

Waking at 10pm?

From about six weeks onwards, it would be realistic to start hoping that your baby will sleep longer at night and that you may soon see the end of night feeds. Provided he is being given enough milk during the day, a baby will usually start sleeping through the night without you needing to do anything. However, some babies don’t sleep through the night until they are at least three months old and others go on waking at night for a lot longer than this.

As a general rule, it works best to leave a baby to form his own sleep pattern at night and you should only try to change it if you are finding it totally unacceptable. For example, some mothers are thrilled if their baby starts sleeping through the 10pm feed, while others would prefer to carry on doing the 10pm feed and have the longest sleep time taking place after this. The main problem with trying to change your baby’s natural sleep pattern is that you may make things worse rather than better.

As long as you are aware of this risk, you could try waking your baby for the 10pm feed and see what happens. If he feeds well, settles back to sleep quickly and then sleeps longer as a result, it may be worth continuing to wake him. But if you find that waking your baby upsets him and doesn’t make any difference to how long he sleeps afterwards, it really would be better to leave him sleeping through the 10pm feed – this is clearly better for him, even if it is not better for you.

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