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Thursday, March 5, 2009
DREAM FEED
A dream feed is the feed done before the parent or the Newborn Care Specialist goes to bed. This is around 10 or 11PM. The baby is not wakened but picked up and given a bottle or breast. Generally they will eat without wakening. This gives the adult a stretch of approximately 3 – 4 hours of solid sleep as they are feeding the baby just before they, the adult, is going to bed. This method is used by NCS's who want to 'say' the baby is sleeping through the night at an earlier age. It is easier to get a baby to sleep from 10 PM – 4 AM than it is to be able to get a baby to sleep from 7 PM through 4 AM. If you are sleep training the baby for a 12 hour period, it is much easier to work from the 7 PM time frame letting the infant sleep until they wake up. If you are trying to get the infant to sleep from 10 PM – 6 AM you can use the dream feed method.
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