dreamfeed

[Nauvoo]

How do you know if the dreamfeed is not working?

[Lolly]

What do you mean by not working? It will depend on the age of the baby as to how long they will sleep after a dreamfeed. What is happening with your nights?

Laura

[Nauvoo]

Well it seems one day she will go 2.5hrs after the dreamfeed and another she will go 3.5 or 4 if we are lucky.  And she is waking hungry each time.  Once she went 6 hrs!!!!  It's just that she is so inconsistent with how long she can go after the dream feed.  I am really not getting the 2.5hrs because she goes 3 hrs during the day and to be honest she could probably go longer, I just always feed her at 3 hrs.  Should I be trying different times to do the dream feed?  Like maybe try the dream feed at 10pm instead of 11pm?  should this even make a difference?  I suppose I'm just wanting her to be more consistent at night.

[Lolly]

I think consistency at this age is a bit optimistic really, she is still so tiny and doing so much growing. All you can do is keep things regular and it will get better. If she can go 3 hours in the day she *should* be able to go 3 hours at night, but it means you will be up more getting her back to sleep and then up soon again for a feed and if she is taking a full feeding she probably is genuinely hungry.

Does she have a dummy/ paci?

Laura

[Nauvoo]

Yes, but it rarely ever works   I am pretty sure I'm desperate for some consistency and wishing this LO would get it figured out