dropping a feed

[BirthdayBabe]

dd2 is over 5m and still wakes every 4 hours at night for a feed. She goes down at 7.30pm then has a feed at 11pm and 3am, usually. She's usually up at 7am. Is there anything I can do to help her drop the 3am feed? she's fully breastfed, won't take the bottle.

I read a great book which said you can stretch their feeds by trying the following. 3am is your base time. Don't feed before this time (unless you believe its needed). Try and stretch your dd by 15 mins one night (Does she have a dummy?) and this becomes your new base time. Push it forward again when you feel she's ready and so on. Eventually she'll drop it all together. I have to say I am not keen on dummies but I used one to do this - with a dd (7months) and a ds 27months I had to keep the peace (so ds didn't wake up too!) and get some sleep. I did this with dd and she now sleeps well. BTW if its any consolation my dd slept beautifully and when I weaned her it all went very wrong but she is now settled again.
Having said all that, my son when he was litle, just dropped his 3am BF himself when he was 7 months without all that faffing!
Good luck.