stopping dream feeds
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Topic: stopping dream feeds
Posted By: Candkids
Subject: stopping dream feeds
Date Posted: 28 July 2008 at 10:27pm
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whats the best way to cut out the dream feeds??
------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  DD 10.5yrs DS 6yrs DS 11mths 5 little angles watching from above |
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 28 July 2008 at 10:36pm
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We just went cold turkey with Cooper, started on Thursday night and just stopped them altogether. He used to get 200mls, so during the day now he gets 250mls... so far so good, he did wake once during the night, but that was due to coughing...
I actually found that the dreamfeeds seemed to be disrupting his sleep and he was waking 2hrs later! ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: Candkids
Date Posted: 28 July 2008 at 10:42pm
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hmmm mite try that
latley jetts been waking up (kind of) around 3am and ill just giv him a bottle while hes lying in his cot ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> DD 10.5yrs DS 6yrs DS 11mths 5 little angles watching from above |
Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 28 July 2008 at 10:44pm
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One night Spencer wouldn't go to bed and was up till 8.30pm instead of 6.30pm he had a feed then and I thought bugger it i'm not waiting up till 10.30 to do the dream feed and I went to bed as well and he slept through for the first time, he was 4ish months. So after that I pushed his bedtime out to 7pm and left him to it, first few times he woke around 5ish but would have a feed and go back to bed and then slowly he started making it through later and later.
I also think perhaps the dream feed was interupting his sleep but then we also put him on neocate around the same time so could have just been that his allergies were sorted and that made his sleeping sleeping better. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: NovemberMum
Date Posted: 28 July 2008 at 11:07pm
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yup cold turkey here too I just figured she was having 3 solids a days so didn't really need the dream feed and she sleeps through the night. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 29 July 2008 at 9:04am
| yep cold turkey here. We didint really do much of the dream feed but then I just decided that I would see what happens and if he woke I would feed him then. he didnt . |
Posted By: kakapo
Date Posted: 29 July 2008 at 11:17am
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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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