Dream Feed?

[clbehenna]

Does anyone do this? We are lucky to get a 3-4 hour stretch at the start of the night, so I'm wondering if it might help.

If you do, how long after LO goes to bed do you do it? Do you really feel like it helps them sleep longer?

Although research says sleep is controlled by the brain and not the stomach, I'm willing to try just about any theory at this point.

[carolyngrace]

Nope, but if it makes you feel better our first stretch is still 3-4 hours lots of nights, too. Once in a while we get 5-6. But lately the second stretch has gotten longer, so often we get 3,4,3 or something like that, which is totally doable for me! DB is 3 months old.

[clbehenna]

That sounds doable!

After our "long" stretch, R is up every 1-2 hours...so I really need the long stretch to actually be long! Or for him to stay asleep longer afterward!

[carolyngrace]

OUCH. Yes, you need more sleep than that!

[tulips114]

I dream feed. Generally he nurses during or right after dinner, 6:30/7, then we do bath, etc for all 3 kids, he goes down about 8/8:30. I dream feed before I go to bed sometime between 10&11, and from there he's been sleeping through until 7am-ish.
I'm fairly certain we'd still have a motn wake up if I didn't dream feed.

[Deleted]

Ali is in bed at 730 or 8 and if she starts to stir too much before I go to bed at 9 or 930 then I feed her while she is half asleep.

It doesn't seem to make any difference what time she wakes up to feed (it's anywhere from 2-4am)

[sully326]

A goes to bed around 7:30p. I'll dream feed around 10:30p before I go to bed & she'll sleep until about 4:30a, eat & sleep until 7:30a when we get up for the day.

[periwinkledaydreams]

Okay magic ladies, maybe this might help me stretch out my insomniac child's sleep, or lack there of. I will try anything at this point. So how does it work? Do I just pick her up and pop a boob in her mouth while she's still asleep and hope I don't wake her up in the process? Ive read about it, but I mean in real life how does it "actually" end up working?

Then again, if the philosophy is that feeding them at that time will keep them from waking again, Im probably still screwed, considering she frequently wakes herself to eat at midnight/1am and then still wakes again at 3 and again at 5 and again at 7. But still, worth a try maybe?

[tulips114]

Sept 9, 2015 12:42:53 GMT -5 periwinkledaydreams said:

Okay magic ladies, maybe this might help me stretch out my insomniac child's sleep, or lack there of. I will try anything at this point. So how does it work? Do I just pick her up and pop a boob in her mouth while she's still asleep and hope I don't wake her up in the process? Ive read about it, but I mean in real life how does it "actually" end up working?

Then again, if the philosophy is that feeding them at that time will keep them from waking again, Im probably still screwed, considering she frequently wakes herself to eat at midnight/1am and then still wakes again at 3 and again at 5 and again at 7. But still, worth a try maybe?

I scoop him up and check his diaper, and change it if needed. That wakes him a little, but I keep the room dark and quiet. Then I just pop the boob in and he falls back to sleep while nursing. Then I hold him for a bit because I'm back to work and I miss holding him. Then he goes back in the PNP. He stays mostly asleep for all of it.