Dreamfeeding

[Jess280]

Waking baby between 10-11pm for a feed did it work for you? Opinions on dream feeding please.

Just try it and see. It's not set in stone.

Maybe it will help now but won't help in 2 months time?

Maybe it won't help now but will in 3 months time?

Maybe it helps stop a night feed but leads to an early morning?

Maybe it makes no difference to night wakes?

Maybe it's adding a feed to a baby who doesn't need a night feed, but helps stop early mornings?

If sleep goes crap, give a dreamed a go for a week and see what happens. Maybe it helps, maybe it doesn't and you go back to how you were.

Maybe a dream feed gets you through a period of crappy sleep and is only needed for a couple of weeks.

What im saying is - the usefulness of a dreamfeed is fluid. At some times it will be helpful, at other times it won't. So the dream feed can come and go accordingly.

Worked fine for us, didn't properly wake her, she stayed drowsy, very low lighting, no interaction, she weaned herself off them by gradually taking less and less before refusing them, came off them at around 5m old.

I got into a useful routine between 3-11ish months where I'd express while doing the morning feed (feed off one side, pump the other at the same time, tricky to start with. But always got heaps as milk GUSHED out due to first feed of the day and good strong sucking from baby).
Then DH would give that EBM as a dream feed at 10pm (eventually cold from the fridge!) and I could sleep from 7pm - 5am most nights. Worked a treat.