I'm unsure about the dream feed. Do you guys wake up your LO for it? My babies usually go down btw 8-830. What time should their dream feed be and should I wake them?
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I don't wake LO but right before we go to bed we'll take the nipple of the bottle and tickle her lips with it. Usually she opens enough to slide it in and then she sucks instinctually.
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I've tried just picking my little guy up to half wake him and try to feed him. He doesn't want to eat and I'm too scared to.fully wake him. I'm curious to see what others do.
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I think Baby Whisperer says the ideal time to dream feed is around 3 hours after the baby has gone down. I used to do it at around 10:30, just before I went to bed. The idea of the dream feed is NOT to wake the baby...pick them up and place the bottle or nipple into their mouth and they should start drinking without waking.
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Yup we dont wake her. We leave her in the crib and just tickle her lips slightly with the bottles nipple. Then she opens her mouth just enough and begins sucking instinctually without ever waking up. Even if she opens her eyes once she usually gets so drowsy by the end that she passes out again a la food coma. We do ours at the latest time before our own bed time so we dont have to wake up to do it which is around midnight.
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I always had my husband handle the dream feed since for some reason I was terrified of waking her up, but it was very, very rare that LO woke when he fed her. She went down around 7:00 or 7:30 and he did the dream feed about 10:30 or 11:00. It really was a lifesaver for us as it allowed me to get a lot more sleep, provided I could get myself into bed early.
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I've just started dream feeds with sleep training (CIO). At 11:30p.m., I wake up or as I'm going to bed, pick him up out of the crib, get him on the boob, and he goes to town. Afterwards, about 15 minutes, he's placed back in the crib with a little cry, then right to sleep. We're following Happiest Baby's sleep suggestions on this one. We do it to prevent him waking up and demanding food and attention. We call the wake up shots. It also prevents a 4am wakeup as well. For the past two nights, I've sleep from 12am-almost 7am because of this feed.
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Thanks everyone. I think I want to try this but I'm nervous that I will wake them up.
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I've tried a dream feed unsuccessfully for the last two weeks. We have given up on not waking her and will change her diaper and then feed her around 10-10:30. She falls asleep right after so it hasn't been an issue. If we don't wake her, she'll wake up in a couple hours because she's hungry. I try to time it so we're going to bed at the same and we can capitalize on those extra hours in a row I sleep!
Let me know if you (or anyone) has success with the breast with the dream feed instead of a bottle! If she would latch and suck, I know she wouldn't wake up but I can't seem to get her there!
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We do a dreamfeed still (at 6 months) and it works for us. My LO has never been a good sleeper and the dreamfeed minimizes her night wakings. She goes to bed at 7and I do the feed at 10:30. Most nights she is still up between 2 and 3 but then will sleep until 8am. I few nights she has slept through from the dreamfeed until 7am. Without it she is up between 11 and 12. For the feed I pick her up gently and she usually stirs but doesn't wake fully before I put her on. She nurses for about 15-20 minutes and when I see that she's not swallowing of really sucking anymore I take her off and put her down again. Usually she rolls right over again and is asleep.
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I try and dreamfeed her before I got to bed, between midnight and 2am, but I don't wake her, I just lift her out of her crib, tickle her lips with my nipple (or spurt her in the face with my milk if she doesn't respond to that, ha) and then afterwards put her back in her crib without burping her.
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