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Offline rosieandhenry

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Dropping the dream feed
« on: February 19, 2008, 09:35:35 am »
Hi,

My son is 8 months old and I have started to drop the dream feed by bringing it forward 15 minutes every 3 nights. He is 100% breast fed and also loves his solids. He has always been an early riser, waking between 5.30 and 6am which is OK because he doesn't normally wake in the night. The dream feed is now at 10pm. The issue is that he has started to wake earlier. It is as if he can only sleep for 6 hours without a feed so he is now waking at 4am (too early!).

Can someone please help me? Should I put him onto formula as everyone says it's heavier? I've tried to breast feed him more during the day but he is not interested, arches his back and cries. Should I keep the dream feed going for longer?
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Re: Dropping the dream feed
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2008, 09:44:52 am »
not really much advice to give as bradley just dropped the dream feed himself. he was around 9 ish months and he just started to refuse it. bradley always woke around 6.30 am, his df was at 10pm, any earlier and he would always wake up way to early for my liking so we kept it at 10 and was just going to reduce the amount of formula he took until there was none! but obviously with your son being breast fed its different.
just wanted to wish you good luck !!
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