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Dream feed?

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Did anyone do is? My girls go to bed around 730 and usually sleep for 6-7 hours then eat and then sleep another 4-5 hours. I was thinking of trying a dream feed at 11pm to see if they'd sleep till 6 or 7 am that way. 

Good idea? Bad idea? I feel like they sleep really well for their age, so I don't want to screw them up.  

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Re: Dream feed?

  • gringa78gringa78

    I used to do this and it worked great.  They would fall asleep at around 8pm and I would feed them again at 10pm right before I went to bed.  I did it for about a week or so and then I forgot to a couple times and they just slept through the night, right around 4 months old, so I stopped.

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  • mirnbmirnb member
    I did this for quite a while...I would feed them around 10:30 before I went to bed and then they would sleep till 7am...give it a try and see how it works!
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  • masked_rose86masked_rose86

    My girls still get up 2-3x a night and for the day at 5/5:30 quite often (UG!)  We tried a dream feed but it didn't work for us....we tried feeding them about 9:30ish (they go to bed about 7:00) when I was ready for bed and they were still up like usual at 1am.  Might be because we never tried this when they were younger (they are 6 months). 

    Then the following week they went from 6:45-5am and then 12:30-6:30am so I'm glad I didn't try and feed them prior to that.  Then one of them got sick this week so I think it will be a few days before we see any of those long stretches again. 

    I was worried it would make them wake up more with their personalities, and I know that can happen with some.  Just try it (maybe on a Friday night before a weekend) and then you will know. 

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  • tarajaynetarajayne member
    We go to bed around 8, they get up usually around 1 and 5 and then go back down until about 8.  For us, A is always the one who is waking up so O always has dream feeds.  I still feel like we are sleeping way better than we were when they were eating every 2 hours, so I'm happy with how we're going!
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  • DoingItRightDoingItRight member
    Mine fall asleep in their swings normally around 7:30. We let them sleep there until 9:30 and then we feed again and put them in their cribs. They sleep till we wake them at 5 to get ready for daycare or on the weekend until 7 or 8. 
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  • ColleenS629ColleenS629 member

    I started doing this at 4.5 months. At the time they were going from 6pm-2am as their longest stretch of not eating (they still woke up several times- we were in a really bad sleep situation at the time). I rearranged their longest stretch so that I would feed them again around 9pm and then not again until 5am. I'm still doing this because I don't really know how to drop the dreamfeed. I don't want to just skip it because I feel like, at this point, they count on it and need those calories. I'll probably either start reducing the amount of time I feed them little by little or moving it up until it merges with their last feeding.

    ETA: I BF so I don't have the option of just adding those ounces to other feedings during the day by adjusting the amount in their bottles. 

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