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Meema2Kids ↓

Mon, Feb 20 2006, 7:26 pm

Do you wake a peacefully sleeping baby? Scratching Head

chocolate moose ↓

Mon, Feb 20 2006, 7:27 pm

for...what?

Bebe

Mon, Feb 20 2006, 7:38 pm

I have the same question! I have a newborn and dont know if I should wake her or not to eat!

↑ chocolate moose

Mon, Feb 20 2006, 7:41 pm

oh, they can eat while asleep!

middy

Mon, Feb 20 2006, 8:15 pm

NO!!!

Crayon210

Mon, Feb 20 2006, 8:16 pm

I do not wake sleeping babies without a very good reason!

hisorerus ↓

Mon, Feb 20 2006, 8:20 pm

I woke my newborn when it was at least 5 hours since he ate last, for my own peace of mind.

grs

Mon, Feb 20 2006, 8:45 pm

I wake my babies during the day to eat evey 3- 3.5 hours until they sleep through the night. I like to get them on a schedule and I find the waking to be helpful.

youngmom ↓

Mon, Feb 20 2006, 8:56 pm

I would say - NO!! it didn't pay for me. Whenever I woke my baby she wouldn't eat until she was ready. Eventually I learned to leave her and realized she would wake up if she was hungry.

chen

Mon, Feb 20 2006, 10:18 pm

If I wanted to live like a normal person and have children who could adjust to the world, rather than expecting the world to adjust to them...yes! of course! what, if we have a doctor's appt or are going to visit friends, we have to wait to leave the house till Their Royal Babynesses wake up naturally? Dress the kid, pop him in the stroller, and go! he'll fall asleep again as soon as you're underway.

what I would not do is wake up a sleeping baby just so the lady next door or Grandma Griselda can play with him or take his pic.

hisorerus...are you saying your kids slept 5 hours at a stretch as newborns??? (Screen turns intense envy-green.)

as a MOT (mother of twins) I always had the dilemma: do I wake Harry to feed him when Larry wakes up? Despite the advice of my MOT friend (who said emphatically YES!)I kept hoping the other would go for a longer stretch. It took way too long for me to figure out that my friend was right.

cindy324

Mon, Feb 20 2006, 11:04 pm

Chen, you totally crack me up Rolling Laughter

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I wake my babies during the day to eat evey 3- 3.5 hours until they sleep through the night. I like to get them on a schedule and I find the waking to be helpful.

Me, too! I've kept this schedule for all 3 of mine and it worked beautifully. I'm very backside about schedules like that, all my babies started to sleep throough the night at 8 weeeks BA"H,

↑ hisorerus

Mon, Feb 20 2006, 11:11 pm

chen wrote:

hisorerus...are you saying your kids slept 5 hours at a stretch as newborns??? (Screen turns intense envy-green.)

You can put your rose-colored glasses right back on, because it didn't last very long! (Although now I sleep with my baby, so I don't really know how many times he wakes up to nurse. I.e. I get more than 5 hours at a stretch.)

Frumom ↓

Tue, Feb 21 2006, 10:21 pm

cindy324 wrote:

all my babies started to sleep throough the night at 8 weeeks BA"H,

Are you serious?! Lucky you!!! Does that have to do with you waking them up every few hours during the day, or is it something else? Luck? When you say sleeping through the night, is that 12-6, 7-6, or what?

↑ youngmom

Wed, Feb 22 2006, 11:03 am

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all my babies started to sleep throough the night at 8 weeeks BA"H,

my baby did too!

at first I was a bit worried and would wake her for a feeding, until I realized that it wouldn't work and left her to sleep.

imanut

Wed, Feb 22 2006, 3:11 pm

to me, a baby's sleep is sacred and the circumstances would have to be extreme for me to consider waking one.

raizy

Sun, Feb 26 2006, 12:48 am

I would wake up a newborn to feed every four hrs bye day. and at night I would let them sleep for as long as they want. I do that to make sure that the baby doesnt skip a feed .bc my babies are low birth weight.and very weak in the begining. ( considering my sister babies birth)

you wouldnt believe it if u see my kids now...

ny_ima

Mon, Mar 06 2006, 9:27 am

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to me, a baby's sleep is sacred and the circumstances would have to be extreme for me to consider waking one.

ditto. but as the name implies then maybe "I'm a nut "too! (hey YOU said it!)

truthfully some ppl wake easily and happily and others are total grouches if their sleep is disturbed -which would explain the diversity in the answers. hopefully the babies take after the mother! I dislike being woken up so much, I would not dream to wake up a baby if I had the choice. soon enough the scool bus will not leave me with that option...

↑ Meema2Kids

Tue, Mar 28 2006, 11:44 am

An update on my question....

My baby sleeps so long ka'h!! I almost always have to wake her in the morning and to pick up the children from school. On days when I don't have to pick up I let her sleep as long as she wants. It seems to be working because she isn't waking from noises in the house, and she sleeps nicely at night.

So, the next question is: How do you wake a sleeping baby?

I rub her back, say her name softly, pick her up gently and hold her tightly until she is fully awake.

↑ Frumom

Tue, Mar 28 2006, 12:39 pm

grs wrote:

I wake my babies during the day to eat evey 3- 3.5 hours until they sleep through the night. I like to get them on a schedule and I find the waking to be helpful.

Your babies slept 3-3.5 hours during the day when they were a few months old??

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