How do you know when they are ready to drop the dream feed - B/F

[CharBell]

I kind of know the answer to this - I just want to go to bed earlier! He still quite happily guzzles at 10.45 and then goes back down. I guess if he was bottle fed, I could try and squeeze more in during day but you can't do this with BF. I guess it just reaches the stage where they don't eat much at the dream feed and you kind of know, right?

i would say once they are established on solids. am going through this currently with ds, he's 24wks and started weaning last week but have had to stop as he's come down with the monster of all colds and now an ear infection.

i haven't slept for 3 daysssssssssss..............sorry that was my forehead hitting the key board while i try to stay awake

Sorry to bump but wondered what anyone else had experienced.

Sorry to bump but wondered what anyone else had experienced.

charbell
does he wake for it or are you lifting him?
does he feed again in the night? and what age is he?
mine stoppped around 7/8mths with night feeds
and probably by 8/9mths my ds definitely went from 7.30 til morn.

I think my dd stopped the dream feed about 6/7 months or so.

I just felt she didn't seem to be drinking that much and so dropped it and she ended up sleeping til the same time as with the dream fed.

But she wasn't sleeping through then, she still woke up at around 4ish until I did cc at about 9 months.

sorry, but I'm pmsl at this. How can I squeeze more into my baby during the day? Please tell!

We have stopped picking ds2 up for his dream feed and just letting him wake when he wants. Last night it was 12 and 5, night before just 4. Like you, we just want to get to bed! We're hoping he'll just sort it out.

Meanwhile if you are concerned about how much he's taking and thinking you'd have more control if you were bottle feeding, then why not do that?

I can't remember when I stopped dream feeding DS - he was completely asleep for it and slept through until "waking up time". think i kept doing it until he was about 7 months or so but felt i could have stopped earlier.

With both of mine I dropped it at around 5 or 6 months (they had both started solids at that stage by the way! - this was back in the "0lden days"). But regarding to going to bed earlier - I often expressed and dh would do this feed - he loved it, and ds would take more via the bottle at this time. And we tended to do our dream feed at around 10 to suit us - the 45 minutes shouldn't make that much difference, so just do it before you go to bed?

If you drop it and you find yourself back with 4am wakenings you know that you've done it too soon!

I also always did it before I went to bed - so generally always before 10.

LO is 4 1/2 months old. Just over 20 pounds I think. Feeds at 7am, 11am, 3pm, 7pm and 10.45pm (when I pick him up asleep and feed him.) Sleeps through for last 5 weeks since I put him on this routine. I went to bed early the other night and slept through my alarm and we woke at midnight rather hungry. He seems to take less at the dream feed than during the day but still seems a reasonable amount (although hard to tell with boobs.) I know this sounds a fab routine - was just kind of wonderring when to stop as it always seems a bit mean waking him up and also I would love to go to bed earlier. Think I'll leave it till Christmas when I will start moving over to bottles in any case.