For how long should a 3 month old baby be allowed to sleep during the night?

[Anonymous]

My baby is 3 and a half months old and two days ago she started to sleep for 7-8 hours during the night without feeding. Should I let her sleep for this long or should I wake her up for a feeding after 5-6 hours? I think she has also started teething and she is not in a very good mood during the day.

[Anonymous]

Let her sleep! It's fantastic that she'll go that long.

After my baby regained his birth weight the doctor told us that he could have his one stretch at night where we let him sleep as long as he wanted.

At 31/2 months I imagine your DD is old enough and big enough to tell you when she is hungry.

[Anonymous]

Lucky you! Let her sleep.

[Anonymous]

Let her sleep. Mine did 12 hours by that time and was at the top of the charts for height and weight. Not bragging, just stating fact. Some babies can handle this.

[Anonymous]

My DD started sleeping for 8 hrs at night around 3 months or so. The ped said as long as they have reached a certain weight (12 lbs or so), they can sleep for 8 hrs or longer w/o needing to be fed.

[Anonymous]

Thank your lucky start and let her sleep! (By the way, hope it won't happen to you but my child also started sleeping through the night at 3 mo, then stopped at 6 mo, for a long, long time...)

[Anonymous]

PP here--meant to say "star" not "start"

[Anonymous]

By all means, let her sleep. Unless she has weight gain issues and the ped wants her fed more often, let her go and get some sleep for yourself! Just be aware that she may eat more and/or more often during the day to make up for missing feedings at night.

[Anonymous]

Woo-hoo!! Let him/her sleep and enjoy every minute!

Our baby did this too, and it was wonderful. That said, and not to be a downer, DD regressed quite a bit at the end of the 4th month (woke every 4 hours) until about 6 months. It was a bummer b/c we had gotten spoiled, but our ped said it's pretty typical . . .

Enjoy!

[Anonymous]

My daughter's in her 12th week and she sleeps through the night at least a couple nights a week, depending on how she's eaten and napped that day. She's been doing this since about week 6. I don't wake her up unless it's time to get ready for daycare, so sometimes she'll go 10 hours between feedings. I figure if she's really hungry she'll wake up, and her diapers have been engineered to wick the pee away from her body until I can change her. (I don't change her while she's sleeping unless she's obviously pooped.)

Note: if your baby does sleep a long time, you might want to have the bottle ready and waiting for her. (or do what I do and have the formula pre-measured, sitting next to a bottle with the pre-measured amount of water.) They are pretty hungry when they wake up, and tend to get pretty fussy!