If you're still not sure, then it's worth seeing what the parenting and sleep experts make
of dream feeding.
If you have
tried dream feeding, and baby still wakes through the night, it may be that this just isn't right for you and your baby.
6 am, 9 am, 12 pm, 3 pm, 6 pm with 7 pm bedtime, and keep 10
pm dream feed?
If your child is more alert than average or wakes entirely very quickly, you may not want even to run the risk of waking them all the way
by dream feeding.
Note: I never got
dream feeding working - I think you have to get your baby when they are going into that lighter state of sleep to get it to work.
It can take a while to master
dream feeding so don't be put off if your first couple of attempts don't work.
There is no good evidence to show that
dream feeding makes much difference to a baby's sleep pattern or that you will get a longer spell of sleep.
So I did a
small dream feed (only 2 oz) last light and he slept through until 7 am.
He goes to bed at 7:30 p.m. and when I can get him to take a
full dream feed at 10:30, he'll sleep until 7:00 a.m..
I have tried moving him to a larger diaper, and I did my first
dream feed tonight, we will see if that makes a difference.
Finally, you can try nursing while both of you are relaxing in the tub and you can
also dream feed at night.
When you wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom — this is a
second dream feed that working mothers who want to avoid pumping at lunch can use.
My 13 week - old is on a 3 hour schedule and sleeping from the last
dream feed at 10 pm until 7 am, when we wake him up.
Do you think it's possible that
by dream feeding him, we're actually messing with his sleep patterns, and could drop it?
It can be difficult to know when to
stop dream feeds and when your baby is capable of sleeping through the night.
Continue to
dream feed until 7 months — unless he's a great sleeper and makes it through on his own.»
I have
done dream feeds with formula and breast milk combinations as well as pumped in dingy supply closets and on airplanes.
At this point, the babies are usually in bed around 8PM and they have one
dream feed later in the evening.
These past few days, however, he has not been taking a
good dream feed (could be the culprit... considering waking him up!)
She
believes dream feeds can help a baby to start sleeping longer stretches at night, as babies have one long sleep every 24 hours — so it makes sense if it's when you're having your long sleep too.
The space dreamers end up benefiting all of us — not just because of the way they expand human knowledge, and not just because of the spin - off technologies they produce, but because the two types of
dreams feed off each other.
Sophie Giordano, author of The Baby Sleep Solution, feels that
dream feeds interfere with a baby's natural sleep rhythms and will therefore not be successful at helping them to sleep through.
I would say I was relatively flexible with her, because I was desperate to find what was best for her but still kept it pretty scheduled (for example: experimenting with changing wake times or bedtimes, tweaking the bedtime routine, adding /
removing dream feeds and cluster feeds, etc.) She started sleeping longer stretches pretty early and at 3 months I could count on getting a 6 - 7 hour stretch, but every once in a while she'd go 8 - 10 hours without a feeding.
but now she wont take good naps through out the day, she goes to bed at the same time and
same dream feed but then she will get up at 2:30 am and then every hour after that until about 6:30 when we are up for the day, what do I do and why is she getting up so much?
However, individual experts and doctors firmly believe that
dream feeding disrupts a child's natural sleep cycles and patterns.