XP - If you did a late night/dream feed, when did you stop? How?

Meggie1129

XP from 2 boards - DD is only 4 weeks tomorrow so I am not planning on stopping anytime soon, but for the life of me I cannot remember when we stopped doing this with DS and let him do longer stretches on his own. Right now DD nurses around 8/8:30, then DH wakes her and gives her a bottle around 11:15 (we supplement with formula). She then sleeps till around 2:45/3 and then again till around 6ish. I am thinking it was around 3 months or so that we stopped doing this with DS and let him sleep longer stretches on his own, but for some reason to me that seems like if we do that then I get the short end of the stick if he starts waking earlier. I am afraid to try it out though to see how long she can go, I quite enjoy my stretch of 5 hours of sleep or so that I get now! Also, how did you get rid of this feeding?

nattn

This may be an unpopular opinion but I feed DD when she wants. I'm a SAHM and so it's just not a big deal to me if she wakes up to eat.

Currently, she eats, takes a bath and is asleep sometime between 10:30 and 11:00. Some nights she eats again around 2, sometimes she skips that feeding. She wakes up again to eat around 8:30, then wakes up for the day around 11:00. I'm thrilled that she sleeps anywhere from 6 and 1/2 hours to 9 and 1/2 hours on her own. For working moms on a tighter schedule, I can understand trying to get longer stretches sooner but I didn't see any point for me to drop any night time feedings.

wall0307

We are still feeding DS at 9ish each night.  He normally sleeps until 7.  We've tried getting rid of it, but he gets up around 5 then.

bucklebunny1

Every baby is going to be different. I also nurse on demand. At 8 mo she is still waking to feed several times a night.

MichMomofGirls

One night she refused to take a bottle and ended p sleeping all night so the next night we just decided not to wake her and she never work up needing one again.  She actually slept better without the dream feed at 10

LynsiBHM

I never weaned or trained P to wake up less or eat on a schedule. He eats before bed btwn 7-8pm. If he doesn't wake up on his own before I go to bed, we dreamfeed (or sometimes he wakes up now that he's older) usually btwn 11-midnight. He had been waking up once or twice after that to eat until about 4-5 mos. It went to once more at around 3 am, then it moved later and later until he was STTN. If I don't give him the midnight bottle, he will still wake anywhere from 2-4 to eat, but it's just once a night for the most part (except after his 6mo shots, for some reason he started waking more- for weeks)

I expect him to fully STTN soon, but i'm not rushing it.