Dream feed?

pumpkinhead4

Does anyone feed baby before you go to bed? As in baby is asleep already but you feed them anyway? Does it extend their sleep? I put LO down around 8 and she wakes at 12 to eat, if I fed her before I go to sleep, say at 10 do you think this would push out her sleeping until 2 or so? Just trying to figure all this out. Thanks!

agapeflower117

We do one! He goes down for his 'first stretch' anywhere from 810, and we do a dream feed at about 12. He sleeps anywhere from 56 hours after that. My pedi suggested going without one, and we tried it for one night, but no dice, lol.

TJ1979

I do on weekends.  During the week, she goes down around 8 and I go to bed around 10.  On the weekends, we stay up later, until 12 or so.  So I go ahead and dream feed on the weekends.  Hmm, maybe that's why she wakes up at 12 during the week.  Oops, perhaps I should re-think.

pumpkinhead4

TJ1979:

I do on weekends.  During the week, she goes down around 8 and I go to bed around 10.  On the weekends, we stay up later, until 12 or so.  So I go ahead and dream feed on the weekends.  Hmm, maybe that's why she wakes up at 12 during the week.  Oops, perhaps I should re-think.

haha! but you have a good point, what if I start doing it at 10 and she starts to expect it and wakes up for it? gah! there is no easy way with nursing, is there? I need to suck it up I think and just wake up every 2 hrs for the next year, LOL

bellelamb

Never helped us, the only way for us to extend sleep is to feed more often all day.