Dream feeding

Does anybody dream feed their baby? My baby is 10 months old, goes down at 7 has a dream feed at 10 and wakes at 4. If we don’t dream feed him he will wake between 12-1. The only time he’s slept all the way through was when he was in with us. Need help! I hope I’m not the only one

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Have you tried moving the dream feed to 11 instead? Xx

We only do 10 because that’s what time we go to bed, he will wake at 4 aswell if we dream fed him at 11. It’s so hard xx

When we dream-fed our little one , he would wake up about 3 hours later and we had 2-3 dream-feeds over night... Bed at 8pm, dream-feed at 11pm, dream-feed at 2am and at 5am, awake at 7am. So we stopped the dream-feeds and now we feed him when he wakes up at night: bedtime between 7/8pm, wake up at 12am, awake for the morning between 5.30/7am.
At night he is awake for about 30-50mins and falls asleep right after his nappy change and bottle/booby.
It seems like since he is fully aware of the feed, it keeps him full longer or lasting longer - at least that's what we assume 🤷🏼‍♀️

I don’t think dream feeding is a good idea as it encourages them to feed at that time. Just wait until baby naturally wakes up for a feed and that time should stretch gradually to all night.

My daughter dream feeds usually once a night but more during the day

He might just not be capable of going more than 6 hours! I did a dream feed until 1 when we really pushed solids. It worked for us but she could only go 9 hours without a feed at the time. So if we didnt dream feed her she'd wake at 3 or 4...but if we did shed sleep til 7 or 8.

I have never dream fed either of my kids. My first is 22 months and sleeps through, but my second is 12 weeks and has his last bottle at 7.30/8.30 then wakes at 3/4am then back down till 6.30/7.30am.

If I woke to feed he would then wake up every 2 hours.

If we don’t dream feed him he wakes around 1 he never goes the whole night anymore and he wakes up crying and the only thing that soothes him is milk x

How long hasn’t he slept through for now? I remember this sort of sleep regression/milestone for my daughter. But we did co sleep so it was a bit easier x

He hasn’t slept the whole night since being in his room, so around 7/8 months old. When he was next to us he would go 7/7 7/6 x

I don’t think there is anything wrong with doing a dream feed. Some babies need it. 10 months is a massive milestone for them so he could grow out of it. If he drinks it, he obviously needs it.

I know that’s not much help sorry! But have a read up on google about 10 months x

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