What are your thoughts on this idea?

Paulsaggiebride

I was reading on the PARENTS website that you should increase your feedings at 5pm. For instance, if you feed every THREE hours during the day (which is what we do) to start feeding every two hours starting at 5pm in order to fill your babies up more before bed.
This is said to make the babies sleep better.

Any thoughts?

iamnotyou

My girls all clusterfed in the evenings.  I think this is basically the same thing.  They did it naturally and I didn't try to stop them.  They never slept through the night but were only up once from very early on so maybe this helped w/ that?

crystina06

I don't do this and my girls sleep through the night. I think it depends on the kid.

SpinningJess

Cluster feeding can definitely help, or you can also do what's called a dream feed...where you put babies to bed a their normal time (at my house that's around 7:30 or so), then before YOU go to bed, wake them up just enough so that they can eat.  Do it in a quiet, dark place so that they don't get too stimulated and wake all the way up.

PMBridetobe

Feeding them every 2 hours at 5 did not help me.  I still have on not sleeping through the night.  Good luck!