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Latest post on 17 July 2012 - 14:48

Hi Ladies, i wonder if anyone has any advice.
So. DD is 8 weeks and until 2weeks ago was slepping 5/7 hours at night, then i introduced a dreamfeed and now the night sleeps have gradually gotten shorter. Last night i fed DD at 7pm then an expressed bottle of breast milk at 10pm then she was awake feeding at 1,3,5am and we got up at 7am exhausted.
During the day we are doing the baby whisperers EASY routine and she self settles for her naps and has good daytime sleep of roughly 2 hours in the morning, 2 hours at lunch and then 1 hour late afternoon.
Please can anyone advise if i should keep with the dream feed and hopefully she will start sleeping longer with it or should i forget the dreamfeed entirely?

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Latest post on 17 July 2012 - 16:50

Thanks PJ. So to summerise, you think i should not DF at 10pm just let her wake naturally for her feed? I fed only on demand, including during the night. He naturally just woke for a feed at around 10ish then went back to sleep, and his nighttime stretch naturall got progressively longer. Can't remember when he was sleeping through, but he was very early. He is an early riser these days - but during that feeding routine he was not. His last demanded feed was at around 9-10pm, he would wake for a feed at around 6am but then sleep again til around 9am. He did feed more during the night for growth spurts. Typically, there is growth spurts at around 4-6 weeks, and again at 3 months. Some people swear by dreamfeeds. There does seem to be a fairly strong correlation with your DD that since they began he sleeps have altered and not for the better. No harm in trying without it again, to see if you can get back to your old pattern if that worked better for you. Hate that exhausted feeling in the morning!

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Latest post on 17 July 2012 - 15:44

I can't really remember, he never really woke up properly for the dreamfeed and always had to be woken for it (and was a major pain to feed as he would be so drowsy) and I think once I gave up on it his long stretch got longer and longer to around 10 hours, until at around 5 months he went through a major regression which I think had a lot to do with his dummy and us stopping swaddling/him starting crawling. He was then quite a messy sleeper for a few months after that, and took quite a long time before he didn't need night feeding at all, sorry you prob don't want to hear that, he is a sleep-a-holic these days though! Fingers crossed that this is a growth spurt and you'll be back on track sooner rather than later!

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Latest post on 17 July 2012 - 15:24

Thanks Kiwi, I am so glad you said they had a growth spurt around this time as it gives me hope for tonight! How long after dropping the DF did your LO take to going back to taking that long stretch? She used to sleep 7pm till 3am or so but has now started waking every 2/3 hours from 7pm. I started the DF around 10 days ago and havent had more than 4 consecutive hours sleep since:(((( I have tried to cluster feed her but shes not interested. Just feeding when she wakes up from her naps. I am EBF and DF is an expressed bottle given by daddy in the hope i may get some more sleep.

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Latest post on 17 July 2012 - 15:16

Thanks PJ. My reason for doing the DF is that i done it with DD1. So bed time at 7pm DF at 10/11pm and then she would wake at 2 and 5 am till she started sleeping 7-7am at 10weeks. Well they say no 2 babies are the same and im finding that out the hard way as i had high hopes we could get into a sililar routine with DD2. Sadly its not to be. So to summerise, you think i should not DF at 10pm just let her wake naturally for her feed? Some of my friends took this route and their children ended up being early risers so really wanted to avoid that if at all possible.

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Latest post on 17 July 2012 - 15:14

by dream feed you mean you are waking her to feed (in the hop that she will then sleep until 5am or so) rather than feeding when she herself has woken for a feed right? I also had the bababywhisperer book and found that dreamfeeding was a bit of a waste of time for us as DS had one long stretch from birth and it was always from bedtime until around 3am, after that he was back on 3 hourly feeds. Giving a dream feed just interrupted that long stretch and meant I had to stay up and wait for it, he still woke just as often after that is if I didn't give it ,so after a while I just started going to bed shortly after putting him down for the night and accepted that I would get at least 8 hours uninterrupted sleep that way. I do know that dreamfeeds do seem to work for some people, but I know quite a few others who found the same as I did I think it depends on your baby and their natural rhythm. In retrospect I wish I'd given up with trying to dreamfeed sooner. My baby never clusterfed in the early evening either but I know lots who did, so maybe just make sure that you are responding to hunger cues often enough by day, and not limiting time at the breast, to ensure enough calories in and then just feed on cue through the night rather than bothering with the dreamfeed? She is only young and still working out her day night routine, if she is feeding more at night than by day then things like getting her up and out into some daylight first thing,and again in the afternoon might help with setting her body clock and also possibly you might have to shorten her day naps, so as to get one more daytime feed in, you'll have to play that by ear. last thought is there is a growth spurt at around about this age, and she might just be hungry and boosting your supply with the extra feeding. .

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Latest post on 17 July 2012 - 14:54

She may just be waking and automatically seeking a dream feed for comfort as she's knows its on offer. The more dream feeds you offer, the more she will need them, as he intake will adjust to less throughout daylight hours.(Unless you can see some reason she would need more feeds at night than she used growth spurt, unwellness etc). If you dont mind dream feeds - keep doing them. If they bother you - limit them to when she genuinely needs a feed as apposed to comfort. Both are fine, and the best is whatever works best for you. x

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