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SLEEP => General Sleep Issues => Topic started by: jez's Mum on March 09, 2006, 12:24:08 pm
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I have just recently purchased the Baby whisperer book so this question could be covered later on in the book (I'm only on page 70, but loving it and wish I had the book months ago !!).
My DS is 10 months old is very good at sleeping in his cot and settles himself no problem. He goes down at 18:30ish and we top him up (dream feed , we started this when he was 6 moths old) at 23:00 and he sleeps through until 07:00, which is brilliant and I'm not complaining !!
However having started to read the babywhisperer I am now thinking that I have fell into the AP trap..... We have tried (when I say tried, I mean for a couple of nights every other week... :-[) foregoing the dream feed to see if DS would sleep through, but he woke up each time between Midnight - 02:00am. DS is under weight for his age (weighs 18bls) and does not drink a lot of milk through out the day, however he eats a lot of solids. At his bed time he takes around 120 mls and the same for his dream feed.
As DS is underweight I have put off dropping the dream feed but now I'm concerned that I have trained my DS to wake up ??.....
Any advice would be gratefully received !!
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if the df is working for you to this point i would keep it. if u start noticing more wakings than usual i would try gradually weaning an ounce or so every few days at a time and see if that makes a difference.
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also wanted to mention that doing a df that late can sometimes disturb sleep patterns a bit. can also try doing it at 2200 or 2230 & see if that makes a difference too. :D