Breastfeeding dream-feed. Should I?

[Mybobowler]

My 16 week old DS is, to be fair, an excellent sleeper. He currently wakes between 11-1am and then 4/5am for a feed. I'm tempted to try a dream-feed around about 10pm (my bedtime) to avoid that first wakeup, but I'm looking at my peacefully sleeping baby and the idea of picking him up now seems... insane.

Anyone done it? I never attempted it with my first baby, but she won't up every two hours without fail for months on end, so it was never really an option!

Let sleeping babies lie.

Currently feeding my 8 month old, who wakes me up every few hours for a comfort feed. Don't do it OP. Let your baby sleep!

Nope! That's an amazing amount of sleep. If it's not broken don't fix it.

(From a mumma whose breastfed and dream fed baby woke every 45 minutes for the 2 years I breastfed.)

Do it...

Baby 14.5weeks here, with same sleeping pattern (and DC1 was same as yours too). Have been successfully dream feeding this one without repercussion....I say go for it!

As luck would have it, he woke up of his own accord just as I was about to turn my light off (taking the majority view that I should let the sleeping baby lie). Currently feeding him, so I'll report back in the morning as to whether it makes a difference!