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If your baby is resistant to the dream feed, you also might want to reevaluate how you’re feeding him during the day. One little lad I cared for, Christian, was nine weeks old at the time, and no matter how hard his mum and I tried, he wouldn’t take that 11PM. feed. For weeks, Mum had been feeding him at 5 and 8 and then trying to feed him again at 11, which was only three hours later. Chris was almost 4 kg (nine pounds) at that point, so it wasn’t surprising that he wasn’t hungry at 11. But then he feed woke up at 1 AM. starving. We decided to adjust his earlier feeds. We hell only gave him 50 ml (two ounces) at 5PM1 instead of the 200 ml (seven ounces) he usually took, and moved the 8pm feed back an hour, to 7pm, and only gave him 175ml (6 ounces) instead of his usual 250 ml (eight ounces).
In other words, we took away 200 ml (seven ounces) altogether from his evening feeds. He had an activity afterward—his bath— and by the time he was massaged, swaddled, and put to bed, he was pretty tired. Then we took the dream feed to 11, which meant that now there were four hours between his early evening feeds and lo and behold—Chris took a full 250 ml (eight ounces) at 11. At that point, we also figured he needed more food during the day ~ so we upped his feeds 25 ml (an ounce) per bottle. Thereafter, he lasted through the night from the dream feed to a 6:30 wake-up.
Remember that a dream feed should never be later than 11. Otherwise, you’re cutting into the night, which we’re trying to avoid, because a feed at night means the baby will eat that much less during the day, and he’ll get into the habit of waking at night from hunger. That’s backward, we don’t want to start a baby on a routine that we’d do with a six-week-old.
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