To Sleep, Perchance to Dreamfeed?
What’s a dreamfeed, you ask? A dreamfeed is a feeding that you offer your baby before you go to bed, by waking her from deep sleep and feeding her in the hope that it will extend her next stretch of sleep. We’ve received a lot of questions about dreamfeeding since we posted our ages and stages sleep chart. In most cases we don’t recommend dreamfeeding, here’s why: A dreamfeed seems intuitive — you feed your baby on your schedule in order to have your baby sleep a long stretch