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aliwnec10
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Dream feeding
How many moms dream feed their baby? And when did you start this and why?
Sorry, i've never heard of this before... 
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Posted 9/1/08 2:39 PM  |
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Porrruss
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Re: Dream feeding
I did. I don't know when I started doing it though- but she was still pretty young.
Basically, I would go in and nurse DD right before I went to sleep- even though she was still sleeping. Usually, it would help cut out one of the middle of the night feedings. Usually she would wake at about 11:30-12 to eat, so by dream feeding at 9 I was usually able to avoid that 12 am feeding.
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| Posted 9/1/08 2:44 PM |
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aliwnec10
mom of 3 boys
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Re: Dream feeding
Posted by Porrruss
I did. I don't know when I started doing it though- but she was still pretty young.
So would you still burp her?
I feel like my ds is too much of a light sleeper for that. 
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| Posted 9/1/08 8:23 PM |
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luvnlife
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Re: Dream feeding
I do this! DS is 5+ months and goes to bed usually between 7 and 7:30. If I don't dreamfeed around 9 or 10 he gets up twice a night to eat. If I do dreamfeed its usually down to one night feeding. In fact right now I'm exhausted and would love to crawl into bed but am staying awake so I can feed him. Sigh. One day I will have 8 hours of continuous sleep again. Maybe not until he goes to college.
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| Posted 9/1/08 8:38 PM |
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aliwnec10
mom of 3 boys
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Re: Dream feeding
Posted by luvnlife
I do this! DS is 5+ months and goes to bed usually between 7 and 7:30. If I don't dreamfeed around 9 or 10 he gets up twice a night to eat. If I do dreamfeed its usually down to one night feeding. In fact right now I'm exhausted and would love to crawl into bed but am staying awake so I can feed him. Sigh. One day I will have 8 hours of continuous sleep again. Maybe not until he goes to college.
so when did you start doing this?
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| Posted 9/1/08 8:39 PM |
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Palebride
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Re: Dream feeding
Posted by Porrruss
I did. I don't know when I started doing it though- but she was still pretty young.
Basically, I would go in and nurse DD right before I went to sleep- even though she was still sleeping. Usually, it would help cut out one of the middle of the night feedings. Usually she would wake at about 11:30-12 to eat, so by dream feeding at 9 I was usually able to avoid that 12 am feeding.
I did the same...except with a bottle, not a boob.
It was a great way to eliminate the waking for a feeind in the middle of the night!
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| Posted 9/1/08 8:40 PM |
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luvnlife
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Re: Dream feeding
Posted by aliwnec10
Posted by luvnlife
I do this! DS is 5+ months and goes to bed usually between 7 and 7:30. If I don't dreamfeed around 9 or 10 he gets up twice a night to eat. If I do dreamfeed its usually down to one night feeding. In fact right now I'm exhausted and would love to crawl into bed but am staying awake so I can feed him. Sigh. One day I will have 8 hours of continuous sleep again. Maybe not until he goes to college.
so when did you start doing this?
I guess when he started going to bed earlier, somewhere between 31/2-4 months his bedtime moved from 9ish to 7ish. I was not consistent with it for a while because at first it seemed to make him wake up more. But then after a few more weeks of multiple wake ups I gave it another shot and it worked. So now that I figured out its the only way to get more sleep for myself I try to do it every night.
I know a few of the sleep books recommend doing it around 11 if they go to bed around 8 or 9 but I'm an early to bed kinda gal so it was never worth it for me to stay up that late to try it.
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| Posted 9/1/08 8:45 PM |
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sami
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Re: Dream feeding
Posted by luvnlife
I do this! DS is 5+ months and goes to bed usually between 7 and 7:30. If I don't dreamfeed around 9 or 10 he gets up twice a night to eat. If I do dreamfeed its usually down to one night feeding. In fact right now I'm exhausted and would love to crawl into bed but am staying awake so I can feed him. Sigh. One day I will have 8 hours of continuous sleep again. Maybe not until he goes to college.
I do this also
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| Posted 9/1/08 8:47 PM |
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shellybean
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Re: Dream feeding
haha I do, I thought I invented it, we call it a "top-off"
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| Posted 9/1/08 8:53 PM |
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aliwnec10
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Re: Dream feeding
Posted by shellybean
haha I do, I thought I invented it, we call it a "top-off"
and when did you start doing this?
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| Posted 9/1/08 8:59 PM |
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shellybean
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Re: Dream feeding
well we are bad, it started around 10 weeks, we figured out that when he woke in the middle of the night, if we RAN and got the bottle in before he compltely woke up he would just fall back asleep..Once he was up, he was up!!!
so thats really what we do, its a little modified....
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| Posted 9/1/08 9:04 PM |
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Porrruss
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Re: Dream feeding
I started doing it pretty early- maybe by 10 weeks. She was just starting to have a "schedule". I noticed that if I fed her while she was sleeping, SOMETIMES we were able to head off the late night feeding. Motice that I said, "sometimes"- it didn't always work.
I always burped her- I didn't need gas waking her up!
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| Posted 9/1/08 9:08 PM |
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aliwnec10
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Ali
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Re: Dream feeding
Posted by shellybean
well we are bad, it started around 10 weeks, we figured out that when he woke in the middle of the night, if we RAN and got the bottle in before he compltely woke up he would just fall back asleep..Once he was up, he was up!!!
so thats really what we do, its a little modified....
so what did you do? just put the bottle in his mouth while he was in the crib or did you pick him up?
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| Posted 9/1/08 9:17 PM |
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