How does dreamfeeding work?

[sunflowerandivy]

Hiya, I have a 5 month old who sleeps well at the moment. Bedtime and night time hours are 8:30pm-7:30am but they're sleeping through until 3-4am for a feed then it's difficult to get them back off as sleep pressure low I guess. Moving their bedtime earlier very slowly. I'm EBF at the moment but hoping to introduce formula soon is they take a bottle. Anyway, how do I dreamfeed, please? Any tips? Should I bother? Thanks?

Usually it involves waking the baby for a feed right before you go to bed yourself, around 10-11pm or so. I never did and my baby weaned all his nightfeeds around 7 months on his own. I don't see how you would know when your baby is dropping that nightfeed if you're waking him to feed. Feeding that close to bedtime can enforce a feed to sleep association which is something I had to work very hard to break with my baby. It does work for some people though.

No harm in giving it a go to see if it works for you.