Memuna
It varies.
Ruth
It varies a lot from each baby, some babies are a bit more, uhm, awake but it doesn’t mean that they’re crying or in distress, they might just be a bit more awake. What we usually say to parents in terms of sleeping is that when you’re sort of planning to feed the baby, whether you’re breast feeding or you’re formula feeding it’s important that you don’t let the gaps between the feeds go more than 3-4 hours. So if your baby is sleeping, then try and wake your baby up around 3 hours at least to get the baby ready for that feed. But if the baby wakes up beforehand and you breastfeed that’s completely fine you can always breastfeed as well, a bit earlier.
All babies are different when it comes to sleep and their habits change as they get older.
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