When to stop 11pm dream feed

[Doodle1983]

My DS is almost 6 months old, bottle fed. I feed him at 7:30/8:00 and put him to bed. I then rouse him at 11 for a feed where he takes a good amount (5-7oz) he's then back down and then apart from a million and 1 trips to put his dummy in wakes about 7/8 and feeds shortly after waking.
Now on his morning feed he never seems that arsed. He always wants his milk but only takes 4/5 oz. In the day he usually takes 6/7 oz bottles so I wondered if the 11pm feed was filling him up and he didn't really need it. I would of expected him to wake ravenous in the mornings ?

Hoping for some advice on the same thing op! DS is 7 months and we still dream feed but, like yourself I don't feel like he's starving in the morning. DS goes to bed at 7-7.30, dreamfeed at 10-10.30 then wakes at 6ish. Our thinking at the moment is that we might just stop it and see

You can always try reducing it by an oz at a time and see if he still goes through.

My gut tells me just to stop it and see but I don't want a starving baby at 5am if I can help it !! X

With DD1 we stopped her dream feed when we found it difficult to rouse her for it, and just wanted to see how she'd do. She was ok.

4/5 oz in the morning still sounds like a fair amount, even if not quite his usual.

we're in the middle of trying to drop this but finding it a bit tricky - DS is breastfed but have been giving him a bottle of formula at DF. Now we've stopped waking him to give it to him but he's waking automatically at 11pm wanting it! It's obviously become a habit.

My baby used to wake at 10 for a feed, one day she didn't wake so we just left her and it worked!

Just drop it and see how it goes x

If your LO is fully weaned (ie having 3 meals a day, with puddings - ie fruit!) then I bet he doesn't need the dream feed any more. Just try not giving it one night and see what happens. That's when my DS dropped it.

If it goes tits up and he wakes up starving at 5am then just reinstate it.

Might be a god idea to make sure his evening meal is nice and filling for the first few weeks....I used to give DS something with some meat (protein) and pasta (stodge) followed by a bit of rice pudding or something like that.

We did a dream feed with DD1 and I just tried not giving it her at 7 months and she slept thro so I'd give that ago. And like others have said, if that doesn't work reduce by an ounce a night.

We are the same at 10 months. I cannot cope with a screaming bay in the night so am too scared to stop (been back at work for five months)