Hi all,
I had been thinking about doing a dream feed for a while but was unsure if to do it or not, so I thought I'd give it a go.
Our LO is 4 months old tomorrow and have been trialling it out for 4 nights so far but not sure if its actually working and if I should stop?
Shes had a bedtime routine for just over a month now that kind of fell into itself, 7pm bath, pjs, feed, bed about 7.30ish and she would have 1 feed in the night around 3am and then up in the morning about 6.30/7am
Shes always been fidgity and wakes up during the night for her dummy which the first part of the night I could pop her dummy in and she would fall back to sleep coming towards the morning around 5am she would wake up and I would have to pick her up to go back to sleep until the morning.
Some nights were ok, some nights she would wake earlier etc.
I've tried it out as she only has 1 bottle in the night and was thinking that the 11pm bottle will see her through til the morning.
I've been doing a dream feed for 11pm and she doesn't wake when I'm picking her up but she takes the bottle and drinks 4/4.5oz and goes straight down.
The first couple of nights she woke up through the night, the 3rd night was the best night she went through til 5.40 I resettled her and she woke at 7.30 and last night was up in the air again with lots of waking.
She isn't crying, she's either just looking for her dummy which she will settle as soon as she has it or she will wake up spits her dummy out when I try giving it to her and its as though its the morning time, thats when I then have to pick her up to settle her.
I'm also not sure if she is going through the sleep regression?
I'm a first time mum and its all new learning to me, do I continue with the dream feeds? How long do I try for?