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Dropping dream feed

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BonaDea · 29/10/2013 22:02

Just looking for a bit of guidance please.

DS is 7 months and ebf for all milk feeds. I've given a dreamfeed since instigating a nighttime routine when he was prob 8/9 weeks old. He isn't yet consistently sleeping through the night, but goes down reliably at 6.30-7 sleeps til 6.30 or so and has one wake thought the night for milk in addition to the dreamfeed at 10.30ish.

Anyway, on Saturday as a one off I didn't do the dream feed. Despite the clock change, DS slept through til 5 without it (ie 6am on the old time). I decided to try not giving the dreamfeed for the last few nights and he is still sleeping through without it so am figuring it is time to drop it completely.

Does this sound about right? How long will it take for my supply to catch up (I've woken full, hard and leaking the last couple of mornings)? I still worry this might be a glitch and he'll want to go back to it. If so, am I risking losing the supply I need?

Interested to hear others' views on what happened when they stopped this feed. Smile

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JiltedJohnsJulie · 29/10/2013 22:46

Think your body will catch up soon and don't worry, if your supply should be pretty well established, so if he does decide he wants it, it will be there for him Smile

Cavort · 30/10/2013 02:57

My EBF DD is only 4 months and goes to bed at 7.30pm. I have found by experimentation that a 10.30pm dream feed makes hardly any difference to her first wake-up time (around 3am) so I only bother doing one if I know she didn't feed well at bedtime. And it means I can have a glass of wine. Grin

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