Helping baby to sleep from dreamfeed - breakfast?

[MrsPanda]

Hi there,

My daughter is 13 weeks old and goes down lovely at 1900, is woken up at 2230 for her dreamfeed, wakes us up between 0230-0330 and stays awake for about an hour. She then wakes up around 0730. She has 2-3 naps during the day (1-2 short and 1 long).

She has a decent feed before bedtime, generally isn't interested at 2230, wants lots early in the morning and then doesn't want breakfast. According to the guidelines she's eating enough (by the end of the DF tonight she'd of had 25-30 oz).

How do we help her to to sleep from 2230-0700 (ish)? When she wakes she is noisy: makes all the hungry noises and eats like a little piggy. I've just started GF to try and get her on track but would welcome any advice.

Thanks.

If I had the answer, I would write a book and retire in the Caribbean...
All I can tell you is that as this stage nothing is set in stone and they do change their patterns quite a bit.
I'd be tempted to say that if she's not fussed about the dreamfeed, I would not bother with it as maybe it is disruptive for her.
I would not worry about the guidelines either unless your child is underweight.

Had such a good night last night....I stopped letting her sleep so much in the day, didn't let her have her feed whenever she felt like it (normally if I feed her at 3 for example and she doesn;t have it, I try again in half an hour until she has some!) and was a bit more structured....result: she slept til 0445 and was mad for every meal today! Awesome. Fingers crossed for another repeat tonight!

Thanks for your advice!