Dreamfeeds. Can someone explain how it works.

[HeinzSight]

My DD is 15 weeks old and has been fussing in the evenings since she was born and if anything is getting worse.

I'm exclusively bf her.

On Thurs DH and I went out and left some expressed milk for my stepmum to give her. From what I heard, she was a completely different baby, settled and satisfied between feeds and was very easy to settle at night.

SO what do I do?>?>>>>>???????

Would putting her to bed earlier work? Hence the question about df.

my dd 12 weeks tends to have a feed about 9pm and then we put her down...have been doing this since she was about 3 weeks old..she knows 9pm is bed time, then we wake her up when we go to bed, usually between 11 and 12 and then she sleeps through til 7/8ish...dreamfeeds are basically getting them up changing them, feeding them and then putting back to bed, they might stay asleep or might not, dd wakes up when we are changing her then she falls asleep again a few mins into feed.

this works for us as i said she usually sleeps through after that feed til 7 or 8ish.

HTH

I used to give my DS2 dreamfeeds while he stayed asleep. I didn't change him. [lazy]

I would do yoga type breathing and focus, to make the letdown happen, as he would only suck gently, until the milk came.