Phasing out the DF

[shelliz]

Hope I have posted in the right spot.

   I am really wanting to phase out the DF. I usually do it around 10:30 or 11:00  p.m. I read that you should move it up bit by bit to slowly phase it out. The past 4 nights I have been doing it at 10:00 p.m.  I normally put my dd to bed at 7:00 p.m. w/ her last feeding at 6:30.  How far up to I keep moving the df? Example: Do I still do it if at 8:30 p.m. if she only went to sleep at 7:00?

Does anyone have experience w/ phasing it out that could offer any advice?  It seems like once I phase it up to like 9:00 that my dd will still wake at 11:00. I know I can work through it, but I am just curious how it normally works.

[estherofi20]

well shelliz, i did the phasing DF like this:

1- normal DF 11pm (3oz)
2- for like 3 weeks did at 10:30pm (3oz)
3- for 2 weeks 10pm (2oz)
4- one week at 9:30 pm (only 1oz)
5- then i cutted it, but DS was taking plenty of solids by then.

Hope this helps

[owelley]

How about for breastfeeding mums??

[RachelC]

Shelby and Noelle,
Jalyn was df at 11:00.  We slowly moved it back by 15 minutes every 3-4 days, so

Days 1-3 df 11:00
days 4-6 df 10:45
days 7-9 df 10:30
days 10-12 df 10:15
days 13-15 df 10:00
days 16-18 df 9:45
days 19-21 df 9:30
days 22-24 df 9:15
days 25-27 df 9:00, which is where we stopped and never looked back. 

I could tell Jalyn was taking less and less and at when it was 9, it was as if she took one suck and was done.  I hope this helps and wish you good luck and pleasant sleeps.  The trick is, get yourself to bed earlier... easier said than done 

~Rachel

[owelley]

WILL DO!!! Gonna start toNIGHT!!!

[Lªuren]

Hi everyone

I kept meaning to post this in the birth thread, I know most of you are breastfeeding so I had a look in the SAYP's book.

How Do I Stop the Dream Feeds?

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The process of cutting out the dream feed—usually around 7 months—has to be done in 3-day increments, to insure that your baby makes up during the day what you’re taking away at night:

Day 1: Add 25 ml (1 ounce) to the 1st feed of the day, and take away 25 ml (1 ounce) from the dream feed that night. If you’re breast-feeding, go back to clustering so that you get more calories in.   Give the dream feed (now 25 ml (1 ounce) less) half an hour earlier, at 10:30 instead of 11.

Day 4: Add 25 ml (one ounce) to the first feed, 25 ml (one ounce) to the second, and take away 50 ml (two ounces) from the dream feed. Give the dream feed (50 ml (two ounces) less) at 10.

Day 7: Add 25 ml (one ounce) to the first feed, 25 ml (one ounce) to the second, 25 ml (one ounce) to the third, take away 75 ml (three ounces) from the dream feed, and give it at 9:30.

Days 10 (dream feed at 9 P.M.), 14 (8:30), 17(, and 20 (7:30): By continuing every 3 days to add 25 ml (one ounce). During the day and take away the same amount from the dream feed, you will end up doing a feed at 7:30 with only a few mi/ounces.


I suggest cutting out the dream feed at around seven months, as your baby starts to get solid food in him. If you continue to give it, you’re working against the introduction of solid food, because for every 25 5Th/Ounce of extra liquid your baby takes, he won’t be hungry for 25 gram/an ounce of solid food. However, as the box indicates, when you cut out the dream feed, you have to add the same number of ml or grams or ounces to the day feed. If you don’t, your baby will wake up at night.


Lauren x