Dropping the dream feed. How do you know when??

[verycherry82]

My DS is 12 weeks and is so far (fingers crossed) a good sleeper but I just need some advice on how we're doing things at the moment.

Since he was about 6-7 weeks, DS has been in bed by 7pm after a bath and a bottle. He self settles, sometimes with a dummy but more often than not without one. I wake him at 11pm for a dream feed and nappy change and then he goes straight back down. He used to wake once more between 2am and 4am and then again around 6am. Since he was 9 weeks, he has dropped the night feed and woke around 6am which was fine. For the past couple of weeks he has been waking between 7.30am and 8.45am.

Recently, he has been taking less and less formula at his dream feed and is taking longer and longer to drink it as he keeps falling asleep and is difficult to wake again. Last night, for example, he took 45 minutes to drink 2.5oz.

My question is, how will I know when he is ready to drop the dream feed? I am also wary of changing things as he is doing so well but don't want to be disturbing his sleep if he doesn't need me to.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

I'd say that him taking less formula is pretty much a sign to drop the dream feed. That's the sign I used for DS (although he was older - around 8 months). He basically stopped guzzling down the milk, and it got to the point where he'd take aroudn 2oz before resolutely clamping his mouth shut. For a while after that he woke early, but it at least meant I got a better stretch of sleep.

On the other side of the coin my two dc both guzzled their dreamfeeds but I just stopped it and it made no difference to their wake up time.it did make them pretty hungry for their first bottle though.
We dropped it at 5/6 months but sounds like your DS is ready.give it a go!