Advice - Dropping dream feed

Hey mamas 👋🏻

I’m currently feeding my LG a dream feed. We give the last bottle around 7pm and LG goes down around 8/8.30pm and doesn’t wake until around 6.30am with a dream feed at 10.30pm. We’ve slowly decreases the amount of the dream feed.

Just wondering on peoples routine with their babies on how to make sure they get enough bottles in during the day to go through the night?
Or any suggestions.

Never been a baby to scream and cry for a bottle pretty happy and content and is coming up to 19 weeks 😁.

Thanks in advance

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We dropped the dream feed recently. I reduced the amount by a minute or two every few nights until I was only feeding her for 5 mins. My husband and I then went out for dinner one night and got back late and I decided to see if she’d sleep through - fully expected a 5am wake up but she went through til 7.30 and has slept through since then! Probably could’ve dropped it much sooner 😅 in terms of feeding, I feed her every 3ish hours in the day, including a big bottle of pumped milk before bed ☺️

Thank you! I think you are probably right if we went cold turkey one night she’d probably sleep through I may increase her bottles slightly in the day and get rid of the dream feed 😁

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