Stop waking to feed?

My baby is 7 weeks old and EBF. She's gaining weight well and has plenty of wet /dirty nappies. During the day, she's happy to feed every 3ish hours and seems satisfied after her feed. However, from about 9pm onwards, when we put her down to sleep, she's just not bothered! She never wakes me up for a feed and I try to wake her twice (around 1am and again at 5am) and she's just not bothered. She'll feed for 1 min and then fall asleep and clamp her mouth shut! I keep trying to wake her by changing her nappy etc but tbh it's just impacting on her sleep more than anything. Do you reckon I can leave her to sleep through the night? Even if that's 7 or 8 hours?
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I was told that once they get back to birth weight and are gaining well that you can leave them, she's probably getting enough through the day she's not hungry at night. Let yourself enjoy some longer stretches of sleep!!

I wouldn’t wake her if she’s above her birth weight x

Once they're beyond birth weight and not jaundiced (not all, but a lot get this) you can allow them to sleep as long as they'd like essentially. Enjoy the sleep while you can mumma.

My ebf girl started sleeping through the night at a similar age, she would cluster feed in the evening before bed and was above birth weight with no weight/feeding concerns so I left her to it and enjoyed the sleep whilst I could! (She stopped sleeping through at 4 months). Engorgement used to wake me up at 5am so I would pump for comfort and my supply wasn’t affected when I started doing night feeds again.

Once they’re above birth weight, you’re good to let them sleep! You’ll probably find you’ll have peaks and troughs of sleeping through so I’d take the sleep wherever you can x

100% enjoy that rest mama

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