Dreamfeeding(?)

[lediva]

Amazing but I've only just started looking into this dreamfeeding idea and was wondering if anyone has tried this?
If you have could you share your exp'/ thoughts about it?
I might give it a try tonight...see what happens. I'm not usually a believer in waking a sleeping baby but I'm curious! lol.
DD usually wakes twice through the night so If I can use this method and have her wake 6ish that would be gr8. But I think they say you should try this over a week to get a better idea of how theyre reacting to it...

Pls let me know how it worked for you & your bub.

Carol

[Funkychicken]

I'm not sure what Dreamfeeding is? Do you mean feeding the bub whilst they are still asleep, so as not to wake them?

[maddysmama]

The first night I dreamfed my bub she slept thru till 6/7 and I've been doing it since! :smiliedance:

I basically just swoop her up in my arms, pop the bottle in her mouth and she sucks it down, 90% of the time she doesn't wake up. If she does wake, I found she was either asleep by the end of the feed or so relaxed straight back to snooze when I put her down.

I plan on stopping when she is on 3 solid meals a day, and only needing 4 bottles. I say give it a go!

[Spewiesmum]

Hi Carol,

I dreamfeed (10:30) and have been since DS was seven weeks (he's now almost 25 weeks). DS is bottle fed (not by choice) so I'm not sure how you'd go BF. The idea is to just pick them up, pop a bottle - or boob - in their mouth and they will feed whilst asleep. If your bub wakes don't make a noise or eye contact, but finish feeding, sit them up for a burp and put them back into their cot.

Sometimes DS wakes but once the bottle is in his mouth away he goes. I found for several weeks it was really hard just to get him to drink 90mls (he should have been having twice that amount). Now he drains 180mls in minutes, has a burp and goes straight back to sleep. I also think the dreamfeed is quicker than daytime feeds as he isn't distracted by what's going on around him. We have a dimmer in his room and set it really low so you can just see what we need to.

My DS did not sleep through the night until I introduced solids (spot on four months). He would wake all over the place and then around 5:30 (not good for me when DH works permanent night shift). Now he sleeps all night and wakes when I want him to just before 7am. If he does wake earlier he's happy to chat to himself in his cot. I listen to him on the monitor.

We dreamfeed as part of the Save Our Sleep routine (love it!:thumbsup: ) At the beginning of May we will start to bring the feed foward and hopefully stop it by June. Then I can go to bed early.:yelclap:

[Funkychicken]

Wow, Ididn't even know that there was a term for doing this. I have regularly fed all my babies this way-especially if I am going to bed and know that they may wake soon after. If hamish wakes in the night now, I tuck him up next to me and feed him and we BOTH dreamfeed.:rolleyes: He only stays awake long enough to open his mouth and clamp down on my boob. I only stay awake long enough to see him do the clamping bit.:)

[MonkeyMum05]

I breastfeed my son every night before I go to bed... he is heading towads 10mths old!
I'm scared to stop, just incase he stops sleeping thru!
I enjoy having sleep at night... its only a fairly recent experience!
...he has his 'dreamfeed' at about 10.30pm... sometimes he wakes during it, but goes back to sleep easy... then sleeps till about 5.30am. Woohoo!

[Funkychicken]

Well Hamish just started waking, I went in and fed him and I am now back here-all within about 10 mins I think. He is such an efficient feeder and now is back sound asleep. Maybe I should be joining him:sleeping:

[~beckkles~]

I still dreamfeed my 12 month old daughter as she doesnt sleep through. She go's down at 7pm and before I go to bed at 11 I walk in with a bottle and she has a feed this gets us through till the morning. I have tried not to do it but she wakes up and it takes forever to get her back to sleep.
I'm sure there is an age oyu are suppose to stop this for older babies and I am past it....but it is working for us
Bec

[Seekrit]

Hi :)
Not a dreamfeeder as, well, I have nothing to feed yet. :p
Just curiously, when do you start dreamfeeding? it seems like a good idea :D

[Oscar's mum]

Hi :)
Not a dreamfeeder as, well, I have nothing to feed yet. :p
Just curiously, when do you start dreamfeeding? it seems like a good idea :D


Anytime from when bub is born could be a good start!

You could begin on the first day if you wanted to!;) I still sometimes dream feed Ozzy and he is 13 mnths~

[maddysmama]

I started dreamfeeding at about 10 weeks. It was about the time she had dropped to only one night feed at 3am, so I guess the 10.30 feed replaced that one.