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Offline Jen114

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Desperately need help PLEASE DREAM FEED
« on: April 27, 2011, 20:10:57 pm »
I really am not sure what i should do now... My DS is now 7.5 weeks old, and the situuation is this...... about a week ago i was still giving the DF at 1030 and all of a sudden my lo started to wake up fully during DF and staying up annoyed for about an hour untill i had to settle him to sleep..... After thinking about it for a while and getting some advise on here i moved the DF to 10,00 was sooo happy that this worked and for 2 nights he drank normally didnt wake up and continued to sleep till 7 am which was brilliant

NOW--- last night he refused to drink the bottle, and then woke up wide awake ( this was at 10) i ended up lifting him out of the cot and giving him breast... i dont think he drank much and this morning he was up at 620 ish....

TONIGHT..... same think he drank maybe 1 ounce , woke up fully and was frustrated with me...

what am i supposed to do now????? he is crying right now annoyed that i woke him up ..
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Re: Desperately need help PLEASE DREAM FEED
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2011, 13:03:59 pm »
Hi Jen,
quick question, how are you dream feeding your lo? do you keep the room dark and quiet?
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Re: Desperately need help PLEASE DREAM FEED
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2011, 16:41:15 pm »
Tracy recommended dropping the DF around 7.5 months because it would mess with sleep cycles at that point. Sound to me like that may be happening to you.
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Re: Desperately need help PLEASE DREAM FEED
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2011, 16:45:41 pm »
Yes pitch dark..... I don't lift out of bed I just put bottle to mouth and he normally guzzles.

Yes seems like it messing up his sleep. Should I stop cold turkey????? Eerish not sure what to so
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Re: Desperately need help PLEASE DREAM FEED
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2011, 16:55:09 pm »
Some people do cold turkey and then pat/shhh or PU/PD, but others choose to wean it. Totally up to you!
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Re: Desperately need help PLEASE DREAM FEED
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2011, 17:38:10 pm »
im currently in the process of weaning my baby off the DF.. every 3 days i bring the DF earlier by 15 minutes. so far it is working, cross my fingers... i hope it works, you should try this out as well, Jen... i tried cutting it out cold turkey but didnt work for me, my dd woke up in the middle of the night crying so much..
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Re: Desperately need help PLEASE DREAM FEED
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2011, 21:07:26 pm »
That's a really good idea!!! I am so happy just goT home after meeting some friends I was going to go cold turkey but then read your post :) so I called my husband quickly and asked him to do dream feed . He drank everything for him ! Happy it worked and he didnt wake up for him at all. I could not deal with a middle of thE night crying so rather take your advise. I'll keep u posted . How is yours going???
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Re: Desperately need help PLEASE DREAM FEED
« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2011, 20:13:45 pm »
Can you believe that last night when my husband went in for the dream feedd. he didnt wake up and drank the whole bottle..

tonight i went it,.... he woke up.. and was pushing it away with his hands he didnt drink anything.. i then lifted him up as he was wide awake gave it to himand he drank half..

still not sure what i should od tomorrow now>>>??
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