Helpmeet decide re dream feed

[Sibling4]

DD is 4 months old. Is generally a very good sleeper. Goes to bed at about 7.30 and wakes once may be twice in the night for a very quick feed then straight back to sleep

Last night she fell asleep earlier, so when I went to bed I woke her to put her in her pj's and gave her a feed

She is still asleep now!

So...do I start doing a dream feed every night? With ds I always sort of thought it was better to feed when it was needed and let him sleep when he was. He was always a good sleeper and like dd when he did wake in the night it was a quick feed and straight back to sleep

It seems somehow more 'natural' to wait to be asked to be fed

But if I can start getting 8 hrs of sleep a night by dream feeding....

But if you dream feed how / when does it stop? Sorry long and rambley obviously my 8 hrs hasn't helped me out of my stupor entirely

I tried dream-feed. Worked once then next night i did the dream-feed and he still woke up at his normal hungry time also. From then until now he has gone from one night waking (somewhere between 2-4am) to two, one at dream-feed time too. Think I should have left well alone. I do have friends who it worked for though. Think it depends on the baby......like everything else!!

Definitely seems to depend on the baby. We did dream feeding and it helped to combat the 2am feed so we stuck with it and dropped it shortly after weaning.

Sounds like you have two very good sleepers, you lucky thing!!