am i being a bit dim, but what is a dream feed?

[crackpotdog]

any clues?

a dream feed is when you feed a sleeping baby to help it sleep through the night. You gently lift the baby whilst it is sleeping to give it a feed before you go to bed.

It's where you feed a baby when it's still asleep - worked a treat with ds1. We would give him a dream feed at about 10pm that would see him through most of the night.

Tried it with ds2 and he woke up and howled every time we tried it - gave up after a few nights..!

my ds3 would only ever feed whilst asleep!!!!

my health visitor said she'd never seen anything like it!!!

it's great to know there is a term for it...though i don't know whether i could call EVERY feed a dream feed just cos he was asleep!!!

I thought a dream feed was when you didn't properly wake up to feed a crying, hungry baby... did lots of those

can u do these fedds if bottle feeding though?

yep - that's what we did with ds1 - I would give the 10/11pm feed with a bottle - so dp could go to bed early, I'd stay up and do the dream feed with a bottle and then dp was ready to breastfeed at 3am/4am after having a few hours sleep!

ahhhhh.

i always kind of wondered that too.

thanks for clearing that up for me crackpotdog

Hi BoysonToast

I also do a dreamfeed. It works a treat. DS goes to bed at 7pm and doesn't wake for a feed until 3/4am either. We don't even lift him out of his cot to feed him. All the other times of the day he is bf, but this doesn't seem to work for us for the dreamfeed. So, he is left in his cot, a syringe of Infacol put in, followed by a bottle and he barely even knows it is happening! Doesn't work for everyone, but I love the idea of being able to top up his tummy without having to resettle him.