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Dream feed?

Erika101076Erika101076 member
in August 2014 Moms
anyone else still dream feeding?!? My LO has never slept through the night. We are guaranteed 2-6 wake ups!

He is asleep no later than 7:30 but I'm just not ready to sleep that early so I started dream feeding him right before I'm ready for bed (like just now) did this yest and the day before and he didn't wake up till almost 2 am which is amazing for his household.

Just curious if anyone else is too :) ??
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  • SoSayWeAllSoSayWeAll member
    I haven't tried it but have thought about it. My DS typically only wakes up once between 3-5. I wondered if it maybe would push him to 530 or 6 when I get up. I was going to try it tonight but decided to wait because wine.
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  • winterkatewinterkate member
    I too have been wondering about this for a while but have been too afraid to try it! And then there's the wine...
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  • RosebeanRosebean member
    edited January 2015
    My daughter wakes up regardless. She's up like a friggen alarm clock. Bedtime is 6:30. She's up at 10, 12, 2, 4, 6 and if she's up again at 7, I drag her into bed with us to get another hour or so. It sucks. She slept better as a newborn. She was getting 4-5 hours at 6 weeks. She's been doing this 2-3 hour crap for 2 months. ETA when she wakes up, she eats. Like she's missed a meal or two.
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  • Erika101076Erika101076 member
    It doesn't disturb his sleep at all (so far) he stays super knocked out and just goes right back to sleep... We were getting at 11 pm wake up haven't these past 2 days. He sleeps till almost 2 am and then 5 am and up at 7 ish... Mind you it's only been 2 days l
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  • Erika101076Erika101076 member
    My LO was waking up just as much as yours and it was miserable! I also would bring him to bed, literally just got better! He went from 6 wake ups to like 4 then 3 and now 2... It's so exhausting!!!!
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  • jules1614jules1614 member
    I was seriously about to ask if people are successful with doing this. I might have to try it. Do you literally pick them up and latch them on? Will they nurse well or do you have to kind of wake them up? I'm afraid of waking him up and having him start crying then be hard to put back down.
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  • leanneriversleannerivers member
    I tried this the other night when I got home to empty my breasts and boy was I surprised! I for sure thought my LO would wake up crying and not go back to sleep well but it couldn't have gone better! Let me just say that it was so weird to pick her up in her crib sound asleep at 10:45 PM! I was like what am I getting myself into! She stirred a little (no crying) and she latched on right away and started suckling! I did both breasts (nursed for 15 mins) and put her back into her crib. She stirred for like 1 minute and then was out until 7:30 AM!!
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  • HeatherHam10HeatherHam10 member
    edited January 2015
    The dream feed has been our best friend for the past 2 months or so. He goes down at 7 we go in around 11 and feed him while he's asleep in his crib and then he typically doesnt wake until 630 or 7. We prob won't stop for awhile...not even sure if it's still necessary or not.
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  • blondee4685blondee4685 member
    Rosebean said:

    My daughter wakes up regardless. She's up like a friggen alarm clock. Bedtime is 6:30. She's up at 10, 12, 2, 4, 6 and if she's up again at 7, I drag her into bed with us to get another hour or so. It sucks. She slept better as a newborn. She was getting 4-5 hours at 6 weeks. She's been doing this 2-3 hour crap for 2 months.

    ETA when she wakes up, she eats. Like she's missed a meal or two.

    The same thing is happening with my LO!!!!! I'm exhausted :(
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  • MC03MC03 member
    Rosebean said:

    My daughter wakes up regardless. She's up like a friggen alarm clock. Bedtime is 6:30. She's up at 10, 12, 2, 4, 6 and if she's up again at 7, I drag her into bed with us to get another hour or so. It sucks. She slept better as a newborn. She was getting 4-5 hours at 6 weeks. She's been doing this 2-3 hour crap for 2 months.

    ETA when she wakes up, she eats. Like she's missed a meal or two.

    OMG this is exactly is too!!! I am dying. Really the quality of my life is terrible on all levels because of this. I have no advice obviously but just wanted to let you know I understand!
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  • seamonkey0814seamonkey0814 member
    We dream feed when I go to bed but it's really just so I won't have to get up again an hour or two after going to sleep. DS still gets up every 3-4 hours and eats well so I have no intention of trying to cut down yet. It was tricky at the beginning because DS wouldn't wake up enough to eat so I learned a trick: I keep an eye on the monitor and when DS gets restless I run in and nurse him when he's in a lighter sleep. He usually goes to bed at around 7:30 and eats at 10:30, 2:30 and 6:30.
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  • jessicamunnjessicamunn member
    I do it all the time. It works like a charm! Rarely at night, but I did it a lot during the holidays. Especially when he's already asleep and I need to load him up in the car seat.
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  • courtnikocourtniko member
    Rosebean said:

    My daughter wakes up regardless. She's up like a friggen alarm clock. Bedtime is 6:30. She's up at 10, 12, 2, 4, 6 and if she's up again at 7, I drag her into bed with us to get another hour or so. It sucks. She slept better as a newborn. She was getting 4-5 hours at 6 weeks. She's been doing this 2-3 hour crap for 2 months.

    ETA when she wakes up, she eats. Like she's missed a meal or two.

    This is us as well, but her bed time is closer to 7:30, so that fist stretch is not as long, and I get up for work at 7 (used to be earlier, but now I am too tired to get up before 7).
    She nurses like she has not eaten for a day.


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