Ahhh. I'm so annoyed with myself for giving in to the Dreamfeed hype.
My LO has always had her night & day the right way around and was sleeping 8/9ish - 3/4ish. Albeit, she was quite an unsettled sleeper. A lot if moving around and whinging in her sleep.
I thought, oo, a Dreamfeed might push her to 5/6ish which would be lovely but no. I've basically just totally interputed her sleep & feeding patterns.
She now drink less overall in the day as I guess her body has now tuned into expecting a feed later on.
She now wakes up between 10-11pm for her now not dream feed.
She still wakes up at 4am.
She still moves around in her sleep but maybe slightly less than before.
So she now sleeps for shorter periods and instead of starting to push up to bigger feeds, she's drinking less.
The only success I've taken from it, is that she goes back down until 8am fairly consistently. Whereas before, she'd probably wake up at 6.30 and need settling with a dummy.
Im so frustrated & upset that I started messing with her sleep. I'd do anything to try & drop the (not) dreamfeed but I don't see how I can as she wakes up for it now
Does anyone have any suggestions? Or just similar experience as some words of comfort? I feel like I've made everything so much worse than it was and now I'll be stuck with a feed I can't get rid of! I had such a good sleeper and I feel like I've ruined it for my selfish want for a full night sleep
My LO has always had her night & day the right way around and was sleeping 8/9ish - 3/4ish. Albeit, she was quite an unsettled sleeper. A lot if moving around and whinging in her sleep.
I thought, oo, a Dreamfeed might push her to 5/6ish which would be lovely but no. I've basically just totally interputed her sleep & feeding patterns.
She now drink less overall in the day as I guess her body has now tuned into expecting a feed later on.
She now wakes up between 10-11pm for her now not dream feed.
She still wakes up at 4am.
She still moves around in her sleep but maybe slightly less than before.
So she now sleeps for shorter periods and instead of starting to push up to bigger feeds, she's drinking less.
The only success I've taken from it, is that she goes back down until 8am fairly consistently. Whereas before, she'd probably wake up at 6.30 and need settling with a dummy.
Im so frustrated & upset that I started messing with her sleep. I'd do anything to try & drop the (not) dreamfeed but I don't see how I can as she wakes up for it now
Does anyone have any suggestions? Or just similar experience as some words of comfort? I feel like I've made everything so much worse than it was and now I'll be stuck with a feed I can't get rid of! I had such a good sleeper and I feel like I've ruined it for my selfish want for a full night sleep
