#dreamfeed

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Baby Sleep Tips 1 : Dreamfeed

When you go to bed does your newborn baby wake up just you fall asleep? If you have a problem this method is just for you. 

  The dreamfeed is a method that feeding your baby right before you are going to bed. So what you earn? The dreamfeed helps to prevent baby from sleeping wake up just after the parents finally fall asleep.

A lot of parents think that this is the pinnacle of sleep…

My son is 6.5 months and is not sleeping through the night yet. I know he can do it so I’ve decided to bite the bullet and sleep train him. He has become somewhat predictable with his sleep, down at 7 for the night, he sleeps until 1, eats for 10 minutes max and is back down until after 4 when he hears daddy, at which point I bring him into bed with me, feed him and we both happily go back to sleep until 7 when we have to get up and get Hailey ready for her day of school. I wanted to take baby steps and attempt to cut out his 1am feed and a friend suggested I dream feed before I went to bed. 

So my approach for the first night was to dream feed before I went to bed (this meant staying up later than usual as I head to bed early lol) in hopes of him skipping his 1am feeding. So just before 11pm I quietly go into his room and pick him up out of bed and feed him while trying not to wake him. I successfully do this and he eats for his usual length of time. I put him back down in his bed passed out like I do at 1am after he eats and quietly left his room and climbed into bed. Well wouldn’t you know it, 1am rolls around and who is wide awake? Mr. Andrew of course. 

I’m secretly hoping it’s just a matter of going in and giving him his soother and back off to dream land he would go. I go into his room and instantly all I smell is poop. I thought for sure he had pooped so I pick him up and give his bum a sniff. Turns out there was no poop and now that I have picked him up there is no putting him back down wide awake. My usual approach to get him to go back to sleep when just the soother won’t do is to feed him. Well I’m trying to sleep train so this is not an option. I try rocking him, he gets sleepy but doesn’t pass out like he usually does (he thinks it’s play time). I try lying him down in his bed and tucking him in and putting on his aquarium like I do at bed time and leaving but that didn’t work. Finally after almost an hour and a half I get him sound enough asleep that I can walk out of the room. Well wouldn’t you know it 15 minutes later he’s up, crying, looking to eat.

I feed him, he passes out part way through so I end the feeding session before he pop’s off, put him back to bed and go climb back into bed myself. By this time it’s 2:45 am, my husband will be up for work in an hour and 15 minutes and Andrew will be up again in about an hour and a half like usual. 4am rolls around, Paul gets up for work and I fall back asleep waiting for the baby to wake. For the first time in months Andrew sleep’s past 4 and doesn’t wake up again until 6am. Now had I not been up for 2 hours trying to get him back to sleep I would consider this a success.