https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:54:17 +0000 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:49:44 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.05 360 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=28125 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/ https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28125&PID=748885&title=dropping-the-dream-feed#748885 Author: Natalie_G
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Posted: 16 August 2009 at 7:49pm

I dropped Ariannes dream feed at 5 months when she moved onto the bottle.

I agree with emz if she is getting enough during the day she shouldn't need the feeds during the night.]]> Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:49:44 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28125&PID=748885&title=dropping-the-dream-feed#748885 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28125&PID=748571&title=dropping-the-dream-feed#748571 Author: emz
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Posted: 16 August 2009 at 2:19pm

We reduced the amount, so for BF I would just limit the time (ie. work out how long she would normally feed for, and drop by a couple of minutes every few days or something).

Once we were down to about 50ml, I just swapped to warm water if he chose to wake at that time - he quickly learnt it wasn't getting him the result he wanted so stopped waking.

As long as she's established on solids (2-3 meals a day) there's no way that she can be going hungry etc so 'they' reckon that the age your planning on doing it is about right.]]> Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:19:10 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28125&PID=748571&title=dropping-the-dream-feed#748571 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28125&PID=748470&title=dropping-the-dream-feed#748470 Author: jano1
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Posted: 16 August 2009 at 12:27pm

Yeah most of my approaches tend to be softly softly. I bf that feed so dropping the amounts could be tricky. Maybe limit the time and only offer 1 (.)??]]> Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:27:03 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28125&PID=748470&title=dropping-the-dream-feed#748470 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28125&PID=748465&title=dropping-the-dream-feed#748465 Author: FionaO
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Posted: 16 August 2009 at 12:22pm

In my humble opinion go soflty softly, we did and never had one hiccup.

We found he was beginning to wake up at around the time of the dreamfed, once we dropped it, this stopped happening, sometimes he'd murmur but mostly nothing.

We reduced the bottle amount over a week maybe 10 days at most, going from 180 then down to 120 for 3 days, then 90 for 3 days and once we'd got to 60 then went to nothing after that. Worked fine.]]> Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:22:08 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28125&PID=748465&title=dropping-the-dream-feed#748465 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28125&PID=748460&title=dropping-the-dream-feed#748460 Author: jano1
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Posted: 16 August 2009 at 12:14pm

I know this has been posted before but i couldn't find the post.

Anyway I'm thinking of trying to drop the df in around a month (I know, I know it's ages away) once Ava is on 3 meals a day.

I know some people go cold turkey and some go with the softly softly approach and I haven't made my mind up yet about which way to go. Part of the problem is that she often wakes up between 9.30-10pm so I just feed her and now I'm thinking it's become a habit as she happily goes the whole night without feeding.

Basically I'm rambling and I just want some feedback on people's success with dropping it.

TIA ]]> Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:14:57 +0000 https://www.ohbaby.co.nz/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=28125&PID=748460&title=dropping-the-dream-feed#748460