you will ultimately want to have thisdiscussion with your pediatrician but when breastfeeding is established and ababy is gaining weight consistently it should be okay to nurse on demand. there may be times where you get longer stretches and that is okay. things to watch for however would be engorgement drop inmilk supply and signs of mastitis (breast infection). often times newborns will go through cluster feedingperiods around 3 and 6 weeks of age so i wouldn't be surprised to see morefrequent feedings in your near future. this happened to me when i was breastfeeding my daughter. she would sleep so much and i let her. my doctor said that aso long as she was gaining weight and having a normal sleep cycle (more at night less during the day) that i could let her sleep. my concern was that my milk continued to drop throughout the night so i would wake up every two to three hours to pump and then freeze the milk. this was great because when my daughter was about five weeks old i got sick and had to stop feeding for a short time due to the medicine that i was on. my suggestion is clearly to get all the sleep you can and just pump in between as necessary. i never had trouble with low milk supply when i did this.
my 2 week old is sleeping about 6-7 hours a night. i am breastfeeding and was told to wake her every 3 hours. should i?