Dream feed
Also called dreamfeed, dream feeding
A dream feed is a feed given late in the evening while the baby stays mostly asleep, usually just before the parents go to bed. The hope is a longer stretch of sleep afterward.
How it's said
I decided to make her last feed a dream feed at around 10pm!
I had one who would dream feed at 9pm then sleep until 7am...
When I go to bed I will give him a dream feed, always between 10 and 10.30...
Who says it
Where it came from
The idea goes back at least to a 1993 study, where a late-evening feed was one of three changes made together for 13 breastfed babies, so what the feed did on its own is unknown.
Cutiko's feeding log keeps breastfeeds, bottles and pumping in one place, late feeds included. See the baby tracker