dreamfeed/bedtime question..please advise

rachlee2010

We have been putting starting our bedtime routine around 8:30..feeding the last bottle around 9:15 and putting our son to bed around 10 or so..we think he needs to go to bed earlier.So if we start our bedtime routin around 7 and feed him a bottle around 7:30 and put him down after that should we get him up to eat one last time around 10-10:30...and if so, do you wake him or just kind of take him out of the crib and start feeding him??? He may wake on his own..i'm not sure.Can you dream feed with bottles as well as breastfeeding?? We are formula feeding so it would be a bottle.  DOes it make more sense to et him up to eat that last time or just let him go after the 7 :00 bottle until he gets himself up??

He has been going about 7 hours give or take from his last feeding at 9:15 until about 4 or so but he did give us one night of 9 hours and like two of 8 hours..if we let him go after 7..he might be getting up at 2 am..it's almost like adding in another middle of the night feeding..which we are trying to get rid of... What makes the most sense??? THanks so much for any tips and advice

navyandviolet

Yeah you can drem feed with a bottle, my SIL does. I would start a feeding around 11 and them move up to ten as baby gets used to it.

pinkclouds25

I have this same problem. I can tell you what we have been doing and it has worked pretty well, but I often wonder if I should try something different. I BF but do give her one bottle a day so DH can help out and so she is used to a bottle. I put her down after feeding at around 7:30. DH and I go to bed pretty late, usually around 11. At that time, we feed her one last time before bed. We usually have to "wake" her up, but we keep everything real quiet and dark. I quickly change her diaper and then DH gives her a bottle while I pump. She always goes right back to sleep without any issue. She then sleeps until about 3:30 however last night she went until 5! I usually get another 3 or 4 hour stretch and then she's up for the day. I've thought about just going to bed and the waiting for her to wake up, but then like you said it is like adding one more middle of the night feeding. I would try it and see if it works. 

samsterrr

My son goes down at 8ish and I go to bed around ten so I dream feed before I get into bed. Although I do a really fast diaper change because he pees alot and if I dont he wont even open his mouth. I pick him up and throw a diaper on him so fast, before he even really starts to stretch. Then I latch him right away.  I get 5 hours of sleep after this