Dream feed vs early morning feed

[chillery1974]

My dd is 7 weeks old and currently has 5 feeds a day of 150ml. She sleeps from 8/9pm to 5am when I give her the first bottle of the day. While this is great, given that it lets me get quite a bit of sleep myself, she has stopped taking the dream feed. It would seem that when I went from 6 feeds of 120ml to 5 feeds of 150 ml the feed that was drpped was the DF, not the morning feed. Any ideas on how I might be able to change this around, so that she takes the DF and sleeps till 7am??

[oilerbaby]

What happens when you try to do the df with her?

[chillery1974]

she takes only around 20mls. She rarely ever took more than 50mls since we started the df. but as she is so young  I hoped that it would improve with time. Unfortunately this hasnt happened

[oilerbaby]

Is she just too sleepy do you think?  She's doing really well going from 8/9 until 5!!  Good for you! 

I didn't start BW until my third and at 7 weeks we would feed him at 7pm and put him to bed and then do the df at 11:00ish - he usually woke up then and if he didn't we would get him up and feed him at 11:30.  If there wasn't enough time inbetween his last feed and the df he wouldn't eat much at all. 

He also used to always get up around 4:30/5:00 and although we wouldn't feed him, I'd bring him into bed and just use the soother to hold him off and he'd usually go back to sleep until about 7.  The first time he slept through the 5:00 wake up was the same day as his two month needles and that was it - slept through it every night after that and around 5/6 months we slowly started moving back the df to about 10/10:30 and then cutting down the ounces until we hit about 2 ounces and then just stopped it altogether. 

[grahamsmama]

I found that the thing to do is to play around with the DF time.  I moved ours earlier and it worked well.  She had been not taking much and went back to taking a full bottle, just in a different part of her sleep cycle I think.