Dropping the Dream Feed

[bmil]

dd has in a pretty stable routine for about a month now. feed at 7.30, woken up for dream feed at 10.30, sleep through till 7ish..

we are now trying to drop it. have gone back to 10.00 for a week and she has gone till 7 for the past 2 nights. do we drop it all together now or go back to 9.30 for a week. she tends to drink pretty quickly for 5 mins and conk out at 10.

in fear of messing it all up if we drop it altogether

forgot to say - she is just over 6 months old

We did a dreamfeed till DS was 6.5 months. Dropped it last month cos he fell asleep over the feed at 10.30pm and only took two ounces - then slept to exactly the same time he would have with the full 7ozs.

Not saying would be the same for you, but that's my experience.

You could try it for a few nights and if he wakes earlier then reinstate the dream feed. Where's the problem?

With my daughter I didn't do the 10.30 feed, I left her to wake for a feed which for a while was between 2 and 3 (I preferred it that way - hated that feed at bedtime and was better with a few hour sleep inside me). Then when she was getting ready to sleep through it just got later/shorter feed and then disappeared altogether without me having to guess.
It would depend on how you feel about feeding at a daft time!

bmil, we also didn't bother with a dream feed for DS1 and haven't with DS2. Like JoJessMar DS1 fed usually between 2 and 3 then dropped the feed of his own accord once he went onto solids. DS2 currently feeds anywhere between 2am and 5.30am and I'm sure he will do the same once he is weaned (currently 16 weeks). Could you not drop the feed an oz at a time over the next couple of weeks so that she makes the oz up during the day - probably easier to do this than go cold turkey especially if she is used to having a decent sized feed. HTH