Dream feeds...your thoughts

[Nedmum]

Evening.
DS, now six months, has started waking in the night, after sleeping through-ish from anout three months. Once awake, he will not go back to sleep without some milk. So, the question is...try a feed when we go to bed (11pm-ish), or start feeding less and less when he wakes about 3am, and hope he gets the message that it's not worth waking up for. Worried that dream feed will create a rod for our own backs. What has anyone else tried? And, yes, I do realise how lucky I am that he has ever slept through!

I'd try water instead of milk at 3am and see how that went if it made things worse after a few days/ week I'd do a dreamfeed, really ideally you want them to not need feeidng at all during the night but if he needs it he needs it, perhaps try giving more in the daytime as well, perhaps he's having a growth spurt.

Any idea's why he has started waking? Teething? Not enough food in the day? Would have thought if he is being weaned he would be less likely to wake?

We've started weaning him (shh, don't tell - we started before six months!), and for the first few days when he was getting a bit of baby rice, he slept a bit longer, but now it's back to the 3-4am palaver. His teething trouble has settled down - that was our first thought - and it does seem that he's just hungry, no matter how much he's had during the day. Greedy pup

I would avoid feeding at night if you can and just give water then, he'll soon learn theres no point waking for it. Does he have a dummy?

I would do a feed at your bedtime. I fed ds at 10.30 ish when we went to bed. This took him through the night.

I did dreamfeed at my bedtime. It didn't work at 6months, (he was a big boy) left it a few months then it did. I wasn't sure about it all then but it has worked out. NOW he's 3 we have other issues. It goes so fast.