When did you stop the dream feed? Or what age did your child sleep from bedtime to morning without waking?

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I know sttn is anything longer than 5 hours consistently (or so I found out on here)
But I'm curious to know when a baby/child can or has gone through a good length sleep without a feed, eg. 8-12 hrs.
Or if you did dream feeding then when did that stop?
My DD is 4.5 and she goes 7.30pm to 6am with a dream feed at 10.30pm

Ds2 slept through 7-7 from about 10 weeks until 20 weeks and then woke 2 or 3 times through the night until 11 months when he went back to 12 hours.

Ds1 slept 10 hours or so from about the same age, and apart from teething/illness has always been a good sleeper, apart from the going to bed bit. I could probably count on one hand the number of times he's been asleep before 8pm, but he's also never been an early riser.

Both bf and I never woke them to feed (or did a dream feed).

I never did a dream feed; I always went by the idea that, if they're hungry they'll feed (they were healthy, full term babies and had plenty of wet/dirty nappies).

Ds, my first, slept through 7-7 from around 6 weeks apart from the odd occasion.
dd went 7-7 consistently from around 12 weeks when the reflux was brought under control. She's now 18 months and still does so most nights although she occasionally wakes at night and cries for seemingly no reason.

Never did a dream feed, as dd would wake every two hours anyway.
She's just, at a year and a half old, started sleeping 11 hours.
Bliss.

Didn't do a dream feed. DS was about 2 and a half when he slept through from bedtime to morning. The last one to go though was one at about 11pm when I went up which I suppose you could call a dream feed? I just went by his cues.

DD slept from night till morning when she started preschool at 2 yrs 9 months. we didn't do a dream feed it didn't work with her she either woke in the night anyway or woke up to much are the dream feed and wouldn't go back to sleep.

DS slept 8 hours at 10 weeks bliss he naturally woke for a dream feed at 10-11pm but did so until he was 2 years old. Then started sleeping through but waking at 5 am, we've trained him out of that now though.

Oh just to add DD wasn't having night feeds at that age she dropped them at 2, she just didn't sleep.

We did a dreamfeed with DD1 and are currently doing the same with DD2 (4.5months) - both were FF so sorry if the advice is not relevant. With DD1 we kept the dreamfeed until weaning was established and she was taking 2 meals a day (lunch and tea) and nearly ready to take the 3rd (which for us was breakfast). At this point once I was sure she was taking soilds at teatime and was taken enough milk during the day I started reducing the amount of milk in the bottle for the 10.30 feed by an oz every few days. This seemed to work as she did not wake earlier but was noticeably hungrier when she did wake which meant that she would take her full feed in the morning and was ready for breakfast.

I think with DD1 this all happened sometime between 7 and 8 months but I can't be sure as it was 3 years ago. Also DD1 really enjoyed food so weaning was very easy.

My advice would be not to mess around with it until after weaning and then to follow their lead with regards to how much food/milk they want. Best not to push weaning before they are ready or reduce milk before they are taking enough solids as you probably end up with DD waking in the middle of the night instead.

Stopped night feeding DD at 7.5 months once she was eating lots of solids incl protein. (She still wakes up a lot though but it's due to teething/illness not hunger)

She did occasionally sleep through earlier (at about 5 months) but then she got hungrier again at 6 months and needed night feeds again. It's not linear...

DD is 11mo and I have abandoned the dream feed to see how long she can last. It is getting to 4am ish now, 8 hours after her bedtime bottle. She still wakes up at 1ish though, I am hoping this will cure itself as we keep pushing the feed more towards morning.

Both DS's slept through at 2 years 3 months. Fed both differently, DS1 dream feed, DS2 not.

We have been dream feeding 6 month old daughter for some months now. With a 22:15ish dream feed, she'd go from 7pm until any time between 6am and 7am. We've been talking about stopping the DF for some time now, but haven't got round to doing it. Had planned to gradually drop an oz and do the feed a little earlier every night. But last night we decided to live on the edge and not bother giving the DF at all. Very shocked and surprised that she went through til 6:40am with just a brief stirring at around 3am, when I gave her her dummy and she settled back off. Have a feeling it was a fluke, but think we'll persevere and hope for the best. Can't wait to go to bed early!!

I dream fed my DS for a few weeks after he started waking in the night again, he'd previously slept through and waking in the night was disrupting his routine in the day. I introduced it and he took the while amount to start with but after a week or so he was taking less and less. Once he was taking less than an ounce I stopped giving him it and he stopped taking it.

I've done it occasionally if he's been low on his quota of milk for the day, I've always been worried that he wasn't getting everything he should be. He doesn't always drink it when I do this though. I'd just assume that if it's being drunk then it's needed, of there are a few nights where your DD doesn't want it then I'd think about dropping it.

My ds started sleeping all night at age 5 .

My ds was also aged 5 years before he slept through the night. He's the youngest of 3, if he'd been my first he would have been an only one!

DS turned 2 last week and still doesn't sleep through the night. I am 9 weeks pregnant with DC2 and have given up on sleep for the next five years.

Blimey I feel extremely lucky! Both of mine sleep all night and have done since they were a few months old. I slowly reduced then stopped the dream feed once I felt weaning was well underway and they were getting plenty of solids (around 7-7.5 months) but I'd also been moving it back earlier and earlier too to break the waking at 10pm habit. We went through a few weeks of DS waking between 3am-5am but this has stopped and both (21 months and 10 months) sleep 12 hours a night.

Mind you with such a small age gap I'm shattered most of the time so if I was up in the night a lot too with them I think I'd have lost my marbles by now!

Never did a dream feed with either of mine either.
DS1 slept through from 3-4 months
DS2 from about 4-5 months.
Used to give them a weetabix at bedtime too from about 6 or 7 months, was determined they would never wake through hunger!

DS2 put some 8-10 hour sleeps between milk feeds together at about 4-5 months old, then at 5 months it went awry a bit (cold, followed by teethign, followed by cold, then more teething etc). At 9.5 months he managed 3 nights of 11.5 to 12 hours sleep. Now at 10.5 months, some nights he sleeps through, sometimes he's up once or twice (at most).

I only tried a dream feed once when he was younger, it gave him wind which woke him up and took 2 hours to re-settle him - we never did it again!!!

DS1 was 2 years old before he slept for longer than 5 hours (and 2.5 years before he was doign it nightly). I'm happy with my current lot :-)

Stopped the night feeds at 9/10 months. 11 hour stints only consistently now at 14 months. Thank fuck.