Dream feeding

I’ve always thought it was when baby is still asleep & you just feed them.
My little boy will have his bottle about 7pm and then go to sleep & then I’ll “dream feed” him about 10pm when I go up to bed! X

hiya, after the 10pm dream feed does your little one sleep through the night? Also how many bottle and how many ml per feed? 🙏🏻🌸

I take baby out of the cot give him bottle (doesn't wake up). Hold him up for a bit and put back to his cot. No nappy change. So it's the second that you wrote it's like extra feeding to make sure will sleep better. I'd say give baby same as usually drinks or an extra oz.

I’m always confused about how this works because I’m pretty sure my little girl would wake up completely if I picked her up out of the crib!

I’m going to try this tonight and see if I can stretch him out a bit the 4am wake up is killing me 😂😴

We feed our LO at 10pm ish, she wakes up fully as we also do nappy change but she goes back off pretty quickly when back in the cot. Shes pretty sleepy during the process

mine does not, but I do it in the dark. If it was a day nap 100% but it’s a very deep sleep for us at night

he sleeps till about 5 & then back down till around 8ish.
He has 7oz throughout the day & then I offer 8oz on the last one, mainly because throughout the day he doesn’t always take the full 7oz.
I did this with my 1st and he slept through from 8 weeks so doesn’t always do the trick! X

same just frequent, usually two feeds per night

that’s amazing, thank you for getting back to me. So basically bigger feeds. I just transitioned from 5oz x 8 to 6oz x7 feeds per day but maybe increasing it with less feeds might do the trick. How many feeds does your little one have per 24 hours at 7oz?

I would always offer because they say when they drain the bottle you should be upping the feed.
He feeds 5 times in 24 hours, I offer 7oz in the day and 8oz at night but for example.
Last night before bed he took 8oz and then at 5am he only had 5oz and through today he has had a 6oz and then 7oz and just fed him now and another 7oz. Some may say it’s a waste of formula but it works for us, babies are just trial and error. What works for one may not work for the other.
Like I said my first slept through from 8 weeks but this time I’m still up once in the night with my 5 month old & im doing exactly the same. X

Oki I’ll try this method. Thank you 🙏🏻 my only concern is the reflux as he does bring up a fair amount of drunk milk as it is. I don’t think it’s a waste of formula particularly when it works a treat ☺️

im assuming he is on something to help with that? Mine is on gaviscon and I just pace feed too!
Yeah exactly just see what happens x

yes we have it too, okay I’ll start with 7oz 🥰