When to drop the DF using EASY

[MarciaMSPT]

Hello - My DS is 6 months old.  His EASY looks like this now:

7 eat
9:40 -11:00 sleep

11 eat
1:40 - 3:30 sleep

3:30 eat
4:30ish bath, book PJ's
6:30 eat
Used to not last beyond 6:45 but last night went to 7:15 so may be able to push 6:30 feed later?)
9:00 DF

NO cat nap and the other two naps are doing very well 1.5-2.0 hours each (2)

I'm wondering if my Easy looks OK... and when to drop the DF.  He should be coming up on a growth spurt so maybe we should wait.  We will also start solids after next week (US Christmas week) so that we are back home before implementing this.

Any thoughts?

[weaver]

DF dropping is a really individual thing, I think.  Mine held on to it til about 10 months!  Both of them!

[Haribo2012]

Hi I think your routine looks good and you could always split the last feed if you wanted to push it. My LO dropped DF around 6 months but I only stopped as it started to effect wake up bottle. If you want to drop it just either do a few less ounces every week until it's not worth it or just try cold turkey! I dropped it until I was only giving 4oz then just went for it, didn't make any difference.

[jessmum46]

Tracy recommended around 7-8 months once LO was firmly established on solids - Re: Dreamfeeding FAQ's - When to start, how to do it, stopping & problems on the

I never did a DF and DD dropped her only night feed bang on 7 months so for us, Tracy's timing and advice was about right.  But as pp said all LOs are different and if it doesn't work when you first try, you can leave it a month then try again