Ok I need some advice, what would you do? My son is 14 weeks old. We have been dreamfeeding at 10.30/11pm each night in the hope he will sleep through until 7am. Sometimes he makes it, sometimes he wakes once for a very small feed. I'm usually so tired that I'm asleep before his dreamfeed and set my alarm to get up (I won't do this once he sleeps 11-7). Tonight my alarm didn't go off, he slept 7.30pm -3.30am, had a bottle and back to sleep until 7am. Do I go back to the dreamfeed or not? Would you?
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I wouldn't If you're good with the 330 feed!
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I wouldn't. If you're waking up to feed either way, why not let him lead? Maybe he'll drop the feed on his own at some point sooner than you would've dropped the dream feed.
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I wouldn't. Sounds like a good time to let him stop on his own before the dream feed becomes a habit that you have to work hard to break.
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I wouldn't! We're only getting a 4 hour stretch as the longest of the night so that sounds pretty good to me!
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I would! I'd want to shift that 8 hour stretch to align with my sleep! Much rather do a feed at 10/11 than 3:30! Good luck with whatever you decide.
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@Adira: i feel the same way about moving the 8 hour sleep to match mine, sometimes I'm up again anyway after a dreamfeed at 4am so I just don't know whether getting up twice defeats the purpose, or if he will eventually always sleep throug after a dreamfeed. Just now is about 50/50
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I wouldn't. I stopped dreamfeeding around 4 months because I read that the first stretch of their night sleep in the most important and DF-ing interrupts that.
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@Mrs tartan: I did a dreamfeed with Xander around 9:00 p.m. and it worked well for me. Eventually he dropped that MOTN wake-up so that his 7-8 hour stretch of sleep was from 10:00 to 5:00, which is when I wanted to sleep too. So it worked for me!
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