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Topic: The dreamfeed

Posted By: BessieBear
Subject: The dreamfeed
Date Posted: 20 November 2008 at 5:42pm

So currently every night 9.30pm i wake ryan up and give him a feed of 180mls then he sleeps through til 7ish.
He has 5 feeds a day @ 7am 2.30pm and 9.30pm he has 180mls and @ 11am and 6pm he has 240mls.
if i was to drop the dreamfeed and add another feed in during the day and increase one 180ml to a 240ml,
Will he still sleep through from 7pm to 7am???

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Sarah Mum to,
Boy 07/2008, Girl 03/2010, Boy 05/2012, Angel

07/08/2014

Replies:

Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 20 November 2008 at 8:07pm

The only way to know is to try! Maya was about 7 mths when I cut out the dream feed, one night I was absolutely shattered so I went to bed early and she slept thru from 7pm till 6.30am so I decided to permanently ditch the dream feed.

Lil miss has done 2 7pm-7am stretches but she's still waking for one feed during the night even if she has a dream feed so we're nowhere near ditching it yet.

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Maya Grace (28/02/03)

(02/01/06)

The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)

Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)

Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)

Posted By: jaycee
Date Posted: 22 November 2008 at 9:22am

As Emma said, the only way to know is to try! Each child is different.

With Amy it was similar to with Maya - I did the dream feed at 10 and could never stay awake so used to go to bed at 9 and set the alarm. One night I just turned it off and went back to sleep! I woke up at midnight and realised and decided to see what happened and she slept until 6.30am

. Amy was about 4 months and that was the end of the dream feed.

Sophie took a while longer, about 5 1/2 months I think.

When I dropped the dream feed I didn't add a feed, just upped the last of the day: 7, 11, 3 were 200ml and 6pm was 250ml.

Good luck

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Posted By: BessieBear
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 9:33am

right so i did it and apart from his 40 min sleep cycle wakings from 3 to 6am he wasnt actually hungry until 6.30ish.

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Sarah Mum to,
Boy 07/2008, Girl 03/2010, Boy 05/2012, Angel

07/08/2014