Opinion/ experience with dream feed?

9 - 16 weeks

Hi everyone! I’m curious what your experience is with dream feeds. I love this sub and I think you’re all such good parents for taking so much time and effort to help your little ones sleep well.

I have read that dream feeds aren’t great because they train baby to wake to eat at the hour you choose to feed so I’ve always avoided them with my previous child. However, with a 7pm bedtime, my new baby can go until about 5am before needing to eat. She’s too young for official sleep training, however, I have utilized good sleep hygiene habits from the start and so she can happily put herself back to sleep at night (and does!!) without any upset unless she is actually legitimately hungry when she’ll cry and of course I go feed her.

I could also just wait a couple weeks and do nothing because as of now she is able to go about as many hours without food as weeks she is old so maybe it’ll just all shake out in two weeks.

Anyway just love hearing the experiences of others! Thank you!

Posted Apr 4, 2026, 1:19 PM UTC

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