When did you stop a dream feed?!

[ncga]

Just that really! Nervous to stop it as I don’t want to be doing a feed at 3am and after a 10pm feed dc sleeps through

Hi @ncga. Do you mean when you do a 10pm feed, LO sleeps through to 6-7am? If so, why are you still doing 3am feeds. Sorry, I might have misunderstood that.

With my DD, she started to reject the 10pm dream feed, after three nights of rejected feeds, I stopped offering it to her and she was fine - she slept through.

How old is LO?

@FoodFann sorry I meant if I drop 10pm I’m worried they will wake at 3am rather than sleeping from 10pm to morning. How old was she when she rejected it? My baby is almost ten months and will drink it but half heartedly!!

Never did a dream feed

Never did a dream feed.
All of mine woke properly for 3 full feeds through the night, but eventually stopped just before her first birthday

Best thing to do is just try not giving it be night and see what happens. They might surprise you and sleep through!

Try to give a bumper feed before bed time and then just see what happens! Some nights my dc would wake at dreamfeed time / 3am other nights not so it can be hit or miss.

Ahhhh, I loved a dream feed. If baby takes the feed half heartedly, reduce the quantity over the course of a week and then stop. Did that with both of mine and they were both good sleepers, sleeping in till 7am. Stopping the dream feed didn't have any bearing on them waking in the night as they both fed well in the daytime.

We kept it up for way longer than we needed to I think, out of fear! I think 10m is a good time to experiment weaning it off. Our twins did start waking at 10pm out of habit!

Hi @FoodFann tonight is the 3rd night on the trot my lo has rejected his dream feed.. he’s nearly 5 months so wondering whether to just stop trying now. How old was yours when they rejected?

I had to Google dream feed! I never woke ds up to eat. Unless their doctor said you had to for some reason…Why? I never woke a sleeping baby!