Should i bring dream feed back?

[SnowWhite26]

Dropped my nearly 7 month old dream feed abput a week ago as always wakes in night anyway and would wake chatting for ages. Now he wakes at some point for food eats and goes bk down no chatting generally but is waking at 5-5 30 not hungry just awake. Should i bring dream feed bk or accept it and work on dropping night feed?He goes to bed by 6.30-6.45 same as 3 yr old wgo woke at 530 for ages then grew out of it.hoping not to follow same pattern. X

Babies need between 11 and 12 hours sleep at night, so if they are going down at 6.30 then 5.30 is probably their natural wake up time. You could try pushing bedtime to 7/7.30 and see if that helps?

Also, there's no harm in adding the dream feed back in as if it doesn't help, you can stop again.

I stopped overnight feeding at about 7 months and found my baby took mood milk during the day and slept longer for it. Some are ok with stopping about this age, others not so it might be worth giving it a go and seeing. You dont have to commit completely if you try it for a few days and it doesn't work. You can just go back

That is a big issue. He is nearly 7 months but only takes 5-6oz a feed in the day kind of every 3 hrs. My 3 yr old was doing 7oz every 4 hrs so 6-10-2-6-10 etc she dream feed and i had a week of hell but dropped night time feed. Coz i have dropped dream feed he is still gulping down 6oz at night. He eats solids well and last 2 night has only had 3oz of milk at bedtime! So how do i up the intake of milk in day and cut it at night? We trued putting him to bed later but hes so grumpy from 5 ish (apart from when having solids)Hes so tired.

Ahh hes just so all iver the place. He took 7oz every 4 hrs and first tome in 3 days 7ozs before bed and ate food well. Then had 6oz at midnight ( been 2 or later all week) then woke shouting and chatting at 3 left him but started really shouting so he took 3oz milk now kinda chatting again. Why cant he get in a night routine!!! I know i shouldn't feed him really 3 hrs after 6 oz night feed as he prob waking and thinking if i shout loud enough mummy will come with milk but can they think like that? Lol how do i get him in a night routine?

6oz every 3 hours is fine, babies don't like following their siblings unfortunately.

I stopped the night feeds by pushing them back slowly. So at first I'd not feed before 3am, then 4, then 5 then 6. Occasionally she'll need it and if she's really going mad, I'll give her 3 or 4 oz, as it might be a growth spurt but otherwise it's fine. It happens like once or twice a month at the absolute most.

What times does he eat food and nap during the day? Sometimes eating lots of very fibrous foods like avocado and banana at dinner time can mean they are too full to drink enough milk.

Can you try pushing his nap a bit later so 1 to 3 instead of 12 to 2 for example, and then he might go later. It seems he is in an ok routine sleeping 11hrs, but you just want a later wake up time.

I know some people offer water at night instead of milk to see if they are thirsty or just trying their luck with milk but I've not done that personally, only because I didn't need too.

We also use a dummy so I think that l might help us! Not sure if you do

He wont take a dummy. He self settles with a muzzy and cuddly toy thing but when hes wakes at night quite often just chats and doesn't seem to no how to self settle without a bit of milk and cuddle.How did you manage to not give milk until 3am even if he was crying for it? Thee problem is that lo just is all over the place at night with wake ups lol

I just cuddled and shushed and did skin to skin. She would be crying but I was ok to let her for a while as I was there comforting her, I wasn't leaving her. It didn't really happen often, she kind of got the idea. I realised I was probably feeding when she didn't need it just because I could and it was easy and worked

Do you bf?

My daughter was EBF until 6 months and then between 6 and 8 months I dropped individual feeds graduallt and now at 9 months she's completely on formula.