We went cold turkey too, once DS started solids at 6 months old, and magically he started sleeping for 12 hours each night (he had always woken for a feed at least once a night before that). Now he will occassionally wake at 6am, but will resettle if given a nappy change/dummy.
"The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems - by teaching you how to ask the right questions, pg 123" by Tracy Hogg advises the following:
"How do I stop the Dream Feeds?
The process of cutting out the dream feed - usually around 7 months - has to be done in 3-day increments, to ensure that your baby makes up during the day what you're taking away at night:
Day 1: Add 25ml to the 1st feed of the day, and take away 25ml from the dream feed at night. If you're breastfeeding, go back to clustering so that you get more calories in. Give the dream feed (now 25ml less) half an hour earlier, at 10.30 instead of 11pm.
Day 4: Add 25ml to the first feed, 25ml to the second, and take away 50ml from the dream feed. Give the dream feed (50ml less) at 10pm.
Day 7: Add 25ml to the first feed, 25ml to the second, 25ml to the third, take away 75ml from the dream feed and give it at 9.30pm.
Day 10: dream feed at 9pm. Day 14: dream feed at 8.30pm. Day 17: dream feed at 8pm. Day 20: dream feed at 7.30pm. By continuing every 3 days to add 25ml during the day and take away the same amount from the dream feed, you will end up doing a feed at 7.30pm with only a few mls."
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