Dream Feed

NatalieBier · June 2014

Does anyone else do this? Our LO goes to bed at 9:30 and wakes up 3:30. I am wondering if we dream fed her at midnight, it would get her to 6?

Cecilbear · June 2014

Wow, that's a long stretch! Good for you! I always wake my LO up before I turn in (around midnight) and she'll usually go until. 4:30 or 5. She's 5 weeks and 5 hours has typically been the longer stretch for her.

bootsiebabe · June 2014

If I try to do that he's usually pissed about being woken up and takes forever to go back to sleep.

Dixon813 · June 2014

How do you dream feed? I have a hard time waking up DS enough to feed without him being completely awake!

maelic · June 2014

Sometimes, if she's sleeping but wiggly. Then she'll take a couple oz and go back down like a rock when I come back upstairs after pumping at 11ish.

LindsayB0505 · June 2014

I've tried, but he is usually passed right out and I'm not willing to "wake him up" to feed him.

PaperBowl · June 2014

I did a dream feed at 10:30 before I went to bed. I thought it worked because he slept through his typical 1am meal but then he woke up extra times between 3 and 7 when normally he sleeps until 7. Maybe it was a fluke but it put me off of dreamfeeds.

fireflygirl12 · June 2014

Dream feeding worked to get extra sleep with DS1. With DS2, he wakes up at the same time either way.

Starfish+77 · June 2014

Yes DS goes to bed bt 7-7:30 so has bottle then. We wake him about 10-10:30 and give a bottle but he doesn't wake really. This gets him until 3 and then wake up around 7 for day. If not dreamfeed he wakes about 12ish and 4. Doesn't hurt to try.

*sparky* · June 2014

Are you staying up until midnight either way? I have always just gone by my babies' schedules and just try to go to bed as soon as I can after they do and let them wake when they are ready. But if you have to stay up until midnight you can certainly try dream feeding to see if it works for your LO to get a longer stretch of sleep. I think it works for some babies but as other have said it does not work for all.

MadBloom · June 2014

Before the 2nd leap hit I was dream feeding her and it worked really well. Her first two sleep stretches were amazing and then she'd wake me up for her like 4ish am feeding.

NatalieBier · June 2014

Thanks for feedback. I am going back to work next week when she is 8 weeks old. I am very anxious about going back that early. I know I shouldn't expect an 8 week old to sleep through the night, but was curious if anyone had success with the dream feed. So worried about breaking her current routine to try it.

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