There is no reason not to
give dream feeding a try!
I've been
giving him a dream feed at 10:00.
Not exact matches
It's Lent right now and I've been trying to come up with a treat to send to my best friend, who
gave up wheat and chocolate, which is also a good prompt for creativity:
dreaming up ways to
feed a friend with dietary restrictions.
A
dream feed is a
feed you
give to your baby once they have fallen asleep, perhaps around 10 or 11 pm.
But, the
dream feed is
giving me the most trouble and I don't want to
give up on it.
Can you
give me an example of what the schedule should look like with dropping the
dream feed - and then what it should look like after I have dropped the
dream feed and move to the 4 hour schedule.
Aliciaz — I'm not sure this will be a popular answer or even anything you are interested in, but... I had the same problem so I started to
give my little girl a bottle of breast milk during her
dream feed.
When I switched to exclusive pumping, it was very hard for me to
give up those
dreams and my expectations of how I thought our
feeding routine would look.
Give your baby a late - night
feed or «
dream feed» at the same time every night even if you have to wake him to do so.
That meant I
gave her two «
dream feeds», one right before I went to bed and one at four o'clock in the morning.
The «
dream meal» is the
feed you
give the baby just before you as mom go to bed.
I
give him a really late
dream feed at around 11:30 p.m. and I am luck to get to 3:30 or 4:30.
Known as a «
dream feed,» keeping lights and voices low while you
give your baby that extra
feeding may help them to saw some logs for longer stretches of time.
Also, because our babies were underweight preemies who struggled to hit their target
feed volumes, we decided to add a
dream feed around 11 p.m. Contrary to Herman and Ryan's advice, we also kept the twins» mobiles in their cribs, as this
gave us a way to easily occupy one baby in the morning while changing the other.
The other purpose the
dream feed served was to help my husband and me know that when they woke up and we were working on «coaching them» back to sleep, we would not
give in and
feed them because we knew they were not hungry.
If they're not awake, they don't really know what's happening She suggests you try the
dream feed for at least a week before
giving up.
He goes down to sleep in the evening between 7.30 and 8 pm generally falling asleep within 5 minutes and takes a
dream feed at 10 pm where we
give him a 125 ml bottle of milk I've expressed that morning — he takes this really well but nearly always decides he has finished with about 10 ml left.
Given that the daytime routine is going so well I am not sure what I can do to rectify this and I can't increase the amount he has at his
dream feed.
And finally, question # 3: It is to my understaning that initially I should be
giving her 2 «bedtimes» - in other words, I should
give her the 7:00 pm
feeding and then at 8:30 «officially» put her to bed and then
give her a potential
dream feed at 10:00.
Our
dream feed is between 9:30 and 10:00, we
give her an exta ounce of breastmilk at that
feeding (she eats faster with a bottle when she's tired), and then she wakes up at 4/4: 30.
We
dreamed of feeling less stressed about mealtimes because we could
feed our little ones foods that
give them all the nutrients they need — and then some!