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when to stop dream feeding?

DebbieM422DebbieM422 member
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Hi all - my DS is 14 weeks old and I'm wondering when should we stop dream feeding him?  He's 100% FF and currently is getting 5-6 ounces every 4 hours, except 2am.  So we do 6am, 10am, 2pm, 6pm, and the dream feed at 10pm.  He sleeps from about 6:30-7 until 5a - 6a (I know, we're spoiled and I'm waiting for this to stop suddenly when he starts teething :)).  Should we stop the dream feed one night and just see what happens?  I'm concerned b/c if we drop that bottle, he won't get enough during the day (I can try upping his oz in each bottle, but sometimes just getting 5oz in him is a challenge).

 

Has anyone done the dream feed and how did you stop it?

 

Thanks!!

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Re: when to stop dream feeding?

  • jennmejennme member
    My LO is 18 weeks and we just recently stopped dream feeds at 16/17 weeks. We were doing 4-6 oz every 3 hours so he was doing like 2 dream feeds lol but Doc ok'd him to sleep for 12 hours without a feed if he wanted to and said that as long as we do 4-5 feeds a day then he would be ok but if he wakes up and lets us know in the middle of the night that he is hungry then we feed him and do a diaper change. For the past week he has slept 730-8 to 630-7 am and we do a bottle at 7, 10, 1, 4 and 7 but last night he woke up at 1:30AM for a bottle so… 
    He usually does 6 oz every bottle now so if you up it by a half an ounce he will eventually make room for it in his tummy. We are going to prob up our 1/2 an ounce and eventually get to 7-8 oz for 5 feeds a day so he will sleep 12 hours at night and take a couple naps equalling 2-4 hours during the day. Also, Our LO is now teething so sometimes he eats less but he is doing great! PS-Our LO is 100%  FF as well :)
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  • jennmejennme member
    If you can, maybe stop the dream feed and just do 5 feeds every 3 hours during the day? Just an option I guess. But my Pedi said 4 is fine but LO will let us know when he is hungry lol
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    JenniferHudson said:
    If you can, maybe stop the dream feed and just do 5 feeds every 3 hours during the day? Just an option I guess. But my Pedi said 4 is fine but LO will let us know when he is hungry lol
    This is what I would try if I were you. I didn't FF but BF dream feed and I just stopped and he never woke up. If I were you I would just try to make sure those oz are replaced during the day, even if that means feeding him every 3 hours.  Eventually my LO would wake up after the dream feed, which is part of the reason why I stopped. 
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