Dream feed advice.

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Hello

LO is 2 weeks old and currently feeds at 7, 10, 1, 4, 6, 8 and once or twice during the night. Last 2 nights we have tried a dream feed at 10pm of EBM in bottle but she hasn't taken any. Not sure if she's not keen on bottle or not hungry.

I remember doing dream feed with first child and she was sleeping through by 5 weeks but I can't recall when we introduced it.

Is there a good time to introduce dream feed? Should we persevere with bottle at 10pm to see if she gets the idea or drop it and try again at a later date?

Why do we always forget what we did first time round?!

I don't think you should be aiming for a baby that sleeps through at such a young age, I would personally leave the bottle of EBM and just breastfeed. She will naturally spread her feeds out as she gets older but she is likely to go through several growth spurts first where she will be having lots of cluster feeds throughout the evening. Most breastfed babies 'dream feed' during the night anyway, especially if you are sleeping in close proximity to your baby. It is best, when breastfeeding, to feed on demand. It's not easy to rouse such a young baby to take milk if they havn't 'asked' for it.

It's probably worth trying again at a later date. My babies have never really gone for the dream feed. I know it works for some, but it never has for us. If I did manage to feed them, they ended up waking at the same time as they would have done without the feed. I will probably try it again occasionally with DD3 (she's 3 1/2 weeks at the moment). But I sometimes think its best to go with the baby's natural biorhythms.