Dream feeding twin 7.5 month olds

[ddykeman]

Hi,
My twin girls are 7.5 months old and doing well.  They eat every 4 hours or so (8, 12, 4 and 7ish and dream feed at ~10). They are eating solids for breakfast and dinner.  They should be very stocked up however have started waking up for the dream feed- earlier and earlier each night-we were doing the df at 1030 a few weeks ago and last night did at 930 as one was up. On a positive- they still slept through until ~8. We want them to drop the feed and I am comfortable they are eating enough but they wake up looking for it-won't setlle down without the bottle- please help.  Also considering adding in lunch or increasing the size of their meals. 

Appreciate your thoughts.

Danielle     

[* Paula *]

I would definitely consider putting your lo's on 3 solid meals a day, and sticking with the 4 bottle feeds during the day.

At 7 months Tracy recommended weaning the DF.  As your lo's are already waing for it, I would conisder doing the route of bringing the DF forward by 30 mins every 3 days and dropping the amount of oz that your lo's are taking.  If they are waking for the feed, it does sound like it has become a habit.

Can you post your routine of what your bottles and solids look like.  I.E. how many oz they have per bottle and how much solids they take in during the day and also what they are eating solid food wise.

[ddykeman]

My girls breastfeed and bottl feed so it is hard to say- here is their typical schedule:
8ish-bf
9-breakfast- 2.5 tbsp oatmeal and 1 jar-2.5 oz fruit
12ish-bf
4ish-bf or 6 oz bottle
5-dinner- 2.5 tbsp rice and 1 jar-2.5 oz vegetable
730-bf then bottle-4-6 oz
930-df-we are down to 3.5 oz now-was never more than 4 oz

when we gave them more solids they stopped drinking milk before bed and then awoke during the night too