Reply To: Feed-play-sleep

[Emma H]

Hi Marien,

At 9 weeks, it’s completely normal for babies to wake multiple times overnight for feeds. It sounds like she may have been going longer between feeds previously, but if she’s now waking and not settling back to sleep with just rocking or soothing, it’s likely she’s genuinely hungry—and in that case, I’d absolutely recommend offering a feed.

To help keep things as calm and sleep-friendly as possible, try to keep the lights off or use very dim lighting (a red light is ideal if you have one).

If she’s not doing bowel movements overnight, you can follow the wake, feed, sleep pattern. But if she is doing bowel movements, then go with the wake, feed, change, feed, sleep pattern—just like I cover in the overnight video in the course.

I hope this helps,

Emma