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Please just talk with your doctor about this tomorrow. Getting advice from unknown strangers on the net is just foolish.
Uh.... I may still be a nursing student but I have NEVER heard anything like that. And in just a few minutes of looking at several legit medical sites, while infant hypoglycemia can be a problem, it has nothing to do with sleeping more than two hours. Your baby will wake up when they are hungry!
@julies1949: According to her she is a nurse so that is why I was askign for hte medical professionals we have here for advice. I certainly plan on asking the doctor about it. I am just shaking in anger right now.
@julies1949: She already said she is getting advice from her doctor tomorrow. There are lots of moms and Bees with medical experience on here. I fail to see how it is 'foolish' of her to get their viewpoints.
@julies1949: OP said that she was going to do that already. She is just looking to see if anyone else has heard of that or has any opinions.
I know iwth my oldest they were super strict about going no more then 4 hours between feedings. With my youngest (there is a 6 year difference) the first couple weeks they had me wake her every 4 hours, but I think after a couple weeks they said she was gaining weight appropriately and we could let her sleep. I always thought it was to make sure they didn't get dehydrated.
Definately let us know what your doc says tomorrow!
It is foolish to ask for medical advice or information on the net because you have no idea if the people who respond have any credentials whatsoever.
" I am a nurse" can mean anything from a care aide to a nurse practitioner and yet they may still have little or no knowledge in this area .
@julies1949: No, taking advice on the internet as a replacement to getting medical care is foolish, asking opinions on what a family memeber said-not foolish.
@julies1949: She is perfectly entitled to ask people on here what they think. If enough people respond, she can probably get a consensus idea about it. They're probably not all trolls. She said she's going to ask her doctor about it tomorrow, so I don't get what the big deal is.
My sister slept through the night and she was fine. Granted- this is not medical advice.
Honestly, I would just thank my lucky stars. Update us when you find out?
I am honestly not worried about my son's health. I want to know if this is a true medical possibility or just someone wanting to lecture. I have never heard of the possibility and wanted to see if any medical professionals had heard of it.
I'm a mother of two, and I've never heard of that. I'm no medical professional, so take my two cents fwiw. Children sleep when they need to sleep.
@julies1949: I know what you said is not popular, but I completely agree. Consulting with a patient outside the exam room in an informal setting in no way lessens legal liability for medical professionals.
Not an MD or nurse but my daughter slept more than that right off the bat. We usually kept it to 4 hour increments but I did occassionally let her go 7 (the pediatrician did not think that was a good idea but it happened less than once a week). She always had enough poopy/pee diapers, lost a normal amount of weight in the hospital and gained very steadily so I was never worried. She acted happy and healthy so that's what we went with and it kept me a lot more sane to have a 4 hour stretch at night.
I wouldn't worry about waking the baby every 2 hours. I am an RN working in NICU. In NICU, we wake good-sized term babies every 4 hours for feeding, if they don't wake on their own. Once they are abut 2-3 weeks old, we let them sleep about 5 hours usually. I haven't had a good sized term baby in NICU longer than about 3 weeks, but I would think at a month old 5 hours between night feedings would be okay, though we usually tell parents to feed them more often during the day (every 3-4 hours). Letting a newborn (withing the first week) sleep for more than 4 hours is putting them at risk for hypoglycemia, which can make them very ill, but this obviously isn't the case for you!
Stop panicking!!! Babies need all that sleep, & will typically sleep 18-20 hours a day in the first month if I remember correctly from back in the day...they will also wake up when their bodies tell them its time to eat to avoid health problems like hypoglycemia...
My son slept through the night from the first night we got home from the hospital. I was worried that he should eat sometime during that time because I had always heard women talk about their lack of sleep because of feedings. The Dr told me not to wake him up and let him sleep, babies tell you when they are hungry and sleep when the need to. As long as he is normal in the other things like tracking with the eyes etc, he told me not to worry about it.
I have hypoglycemia (from birth) and I never had issues as an infant. Like others said, your baby will wake up when s/he is hungry. Your baby might just be better an metabolising sugar better than some.
@Ms Mini: Thank you for responding. He will be 5 weeks tomorrow and I met with the lactation consultant today for our scheduled meeting and he is up to 9 lbs, 5 oz so he is gaining perfectly(EDIT: That is 1lb, 10oz up from 3 weeks ago). And I feed him every 2-3 hours daytime and he cluster feeds a few hours before bedtime, he is fed on demand and he is demanding...lol. I had never heard of going longer between feedings causing hypoglycemia so I wanted to hear from someone who might know something about it.
Thank you everyone else for your responses. I am certainly going to consult my pediatrician and lactation consultants. And now that I have calmed down am willing to give this family member the benefit of the doubt and maybe she thought he was younger than he is. I know when it comes to children everyone wants to give advice and you have to take everything with a grain of salt. Note to self...ignore her in future...lol
@Storm0075: Your welcome. I would think that you should be able to go 5-6 hours after the cluster feeding episode (the time should be from the start of the last feed, to the start of the next feed) without any risk. If your baby is good at waking and letting you know he is hungry, I probably wouldn't worry about waking him to feed too much.
Your family member is crazy, we only do every 2 hours feedings (where we wake them up) on really small (like 4 pound) premature babies with feeding tubes, or babies who are known to have blood sugar issues (like babies whose mom's had high blood sugars in pegnancy). A baby being forced to feed every 2 hours will burn a lot of calories that way, and you risk tiring them out!
@Ms Mini: Thank you again for responding. We typically get 4 1/2-5 hours and have been for the last few weeks so he appears to be on a schedule. I did have gestational diabetes and he was checked several times and was found to be normal so all is good on that front. My first child was premature so he was in the NICU on the 2 hour feeding schedule and he was sleeping through the night within a few weeks as well. I guess I got lucky with that...lol.
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I was told by a family member that letting my child sleep too long at 1 month that he can become hypoglycemic and seriously ill. Now as a newborn mother and not a first time mother I have never in my life heard of this. I have been all over the AAP website and can find nothing to back her craziness so I am asking here. And by sleeping too long he slept through the night. She told me I was endangering the safety of my child by not waking him up every 2 hours. He has his 1 month checkup tomorrow so I will be talking to his ped then. I am not even going into what her advice was about his doctor.