My LO is 4months and I think he's been going through a mild regression - used to go down about 8 after a bottle of ebm and sleep til 3/4, then wake once more before getting up for day about 7/8 am. Always fed on waking, and ebf on demand through day, no nap routine or anything like that.
Then he got difficult to settle in the day - dropping almost all naps on some days - and would wake up much more in night, with less time before his first waking (often around midnight). I tried going to bed earlier so I could get some good sleep before his midnight waking, but often just lie awake so I thought about trying a dreamfeed. WE've done this two nights now at about half ten and he has been a bit better - waking just twice each night but TBH he was starting to get better anyway, and he doesn't go that much longer with the dream feed. (3.01 the first night, 2.30 the second).
I'm a bit uncomfortable with waking him for hte feed at 10.30 as my general approach so far has been to let him get on with things and he'll learn to sleep/settle when he is old enough to do so. But I was getting exhausted with the wakings, and it is nice for DH to feed him at the dreamfeed. So maybe I should persevere with dreamfeed and hope he extends the sleep? OR am I just creating another feed I'll need to drop in a few months? SHould I just stick to my 'no routine' guns and ride it out?
Sorry I know that the decision is really mine and DH's since none of you know our wee lad, but would appreciate any thoughts or experiences of dreamfeeds and dropping them!