Dream feeds - when to start?

[Willow01]

When did you start dream feeding? Did you find it successful? Thanks

 

[k4th]

I loved the dream feed with dd. I think we started it at around 5 months & stopped at 9 months when she was having three good meals a day with plenty of protein.

With ds we've done it from about 2 weeks - although it's not a true dream feed just yet. He's fed at 6.30pm before bed & then we wake him at 10.30pm & change his bum & feed him. He's just started sleeping through from this feed until 7am this week. If he keeps sleeping through to 7am without wanting an extra feed this week, then we'll stop doing the bum change & switch to a true dream feed where we don't wake him. Although dd used to wake if we picked her up - but it still worked.