Dream feeds

Re: Dream feeds

• jmucc421 member

  September 2015

  I tried it once. Lo was dead asleep, I tried rubbing the nipple of her bottle on her lips. She made the maddest little pouty face and wouldn't open her mouth lol. I do know of someone who swore by it though

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• bazzie88 member

  September 2015

  But how do you burp them???? I don't get it.

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• tibi5 member

  September 2015

  You just burp them normally. It's more about the time of night - giving them one last feed before you go to bed, that they might otherwise sleep through.
  

  

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• randa923 member

  September 2015

  @jmucc421 my LO makes that pouty face too. I know just what you're talking about.
  
  My little guy will not dream feed. It'd be kind of nice, but it'll never happen with him, plus knowing my luck he'd wake up and not go back to sleep. I try not to wake the beast when he's actually sleeping.

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• jessieR358 member

  September 2015

  It's hit or miss with a dream feed for me. I don't burp my LO in the MOTN. Wake him up? No thanks. I did read today that they are supposed to swallow less air at night.

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• hay1122 member

  September 2015

  dont bother. no need to interrupt their sleep.

  

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• shaley29 member

  September 2015

  Nope don't do it. She gets her amount of ounces needed during her wake hours. Babies will wake when they're hungry, so let them sleep!

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• wheresilenceismusic member

  September 2015

  Hazel is a loud sleeper -- she fusses in her sleep, howls, and cries.  Yet she's still asleep!  Sometimes in the MOTN I can't tell how awake she is; sometimes I think she's not really awake at all.  If it's been a few hours (and she's already woken me up), I feed her anyway.  I EBF.  It's not dream feeding per se, but it is feeding her while she's basically asleep, and she'll always sleep much longer (and less fitfully) after I've done that.

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• Melis222 member

  September 2015

  I feed my LO in the middle of the night and she is barely awake but she gets restless, making noises, moving around. I feed her, she basically stays asleep but then when I put her down she is much more peaceful.

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• KaLikeAWind member

  October 2015

  Lurking from June
  
  I've wondered about this dream feed business, too. Closest I can do a dream feed is an actual feed before I go to bed around 10 if he fell asleep around 7 or 8. But he completely wakes up when I do that, so there's no 'dream' about it. At least he falls back asleep easily after (usually). And its a total crapshoot if he sleeps longer into the morning or not. Sometimes yay, sometimes nay. Good luck!

  

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• acciocoffee member

  October 2015

  I tried it a few times. I get the pouty face as well.

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