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SLEEP => General Sleep Issues => Topic started by: Aly Mac on January 16, 2007, 11:32:39 am
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Just read BabyWhisperer and want to try the dreamfeed as my 3 month has long sleeps at night but they start early (and hence I'm up at 3). I thought a dream feed would help - just tried it but she is fast asleep and doesn't even know my breast is there! Any suggestions by anyone? Should I just forget the dream feed and be thankful that she sleeps from 8 till 3am?
thanks....
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To DF with BF is quiet difficult. With bottle feed, you just need to push the nipple into LO's mouth. If your LO sleeps from 8-3 (7hr stretch), I will leave DF and let her sleep undisturbed. Because later on around 7mo. you have to drop DF anyways. My LO often wakes up around her DF time after we dropped it... and I've to W2S :o
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my dd started off this way too. i finished reading bw at 2mths old....but she would already sleep 730-330. i tried to df (bf too) with expressed milk, but found i ended up with many many nightwakings instead of the one time to feed.
if you don't mind getting up once to feed, i would keep it the way it is. if you can get her to df and have success, great.
i too think it is easier to drop/push back the night feed than it is to wean the df, OMO.
sami
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I'm assuming you feed again at 3am? I would try to dream feed again unless it ultimately leads to nightwakings as in samijoe's case. If LO gets use to the 3am feed you will have to wean anyway, whether it be the dreamfeed or the 3am. 3am might be harder to wean? Would bottle feeding be an option, expressing milk of course. Have you tried pushing her chin down or using your finger to get sucking reflex into motion, once it kicks in try latching her on? Hope this helps. :)
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I had the same problem with the df, now my husband feeds her a bottle of expressed milk. He says she is dead asleep but he just pushes the nipple in her mouth and away she goes.
You could also try using a breast shield for this feeding, it creates a bottle-like nipple on your breast that you can poke into her mouth and activate the sucking reflex.