I actually never tried a DF (I didn't find BW until DD was almost 6 months old
).
That said, once DD was about 8 weeks old, we started her bedtime routine to have her sleeping by 8pm after her last feed at 750pm.
From 8 - 12 weeks, she woke twice, once around midnight and once around 330/4am for a feed, up for the day around 630/7am.
She naturally moved her bedtime closer to 730pm around this time so her last feed was around 720pm
From 12-19 weeks, she woke once somewhere between 1-4am (generally 2-3am), and would go right back to sleep until 6/630am.
At 19 weeks, she stopped waking at night very suddenly (went from every night, to once or twice for a week, then not at all). When she did this, she also shifted to a 10 hr night that was 7pm-5am with no NWing. I do wonder if she would have slept through to 6/7am with a DF, but alas, I will never know
Either way, she survived and napped like a champ at the time
so wtih the cluster feeding u r doing it every 2 hours in the evening so my lo would still b looking for a bottle before midnight
Not necessarily - many will sleep a good stretch after clustering... if baby does wake and it has been at least 3 hrs, go ahead and feed and put back to bed.
should i treat this a as a df.
Not sure I follow you here... you do not wake baby for a DF - they are asleep for it. The idea is that you do a DF between 10-11pm and then baby will not wake until much later - generally past 2/3am for a NF.
