No more dreamfeed!

Woo hoo, BC slept through the night last night without a dreamfeed! Since birth we have been using the routines set out by Tizzie Hall in her fabulous book, 'Save Our Sleep' and would highly recommend them to anyone! She certainly has her list of critics but I wholeheartedly support her and the routines have definitely worked for us. BC's routine is as follows; wake up and milk at 7am, solids at 8am and bed at 9am. Wake at 11am for milk, lunch at 12pm and bed by 1pm. Awake again at 3pm and a milk feed. Then a nap at 430pm if needed, wake at 515pm for dinner, bath and milk feed. Then bed time at 7pm with a dreamfeed at 1o30pm and night feeds as needed. It is essentially a feed - play - sleep routine as usually recommended but provides more of a guide for the parents. Of course we can change up the routine if we need to depending on our day. For example, Gymbaroo is at 1pm so we have to mix up the routine that day to get BC up from his nap around this time and ready to play! Otherwise he would be VERY grumpy! Well BC stopped needing his night feed at around 5 weeks of age and Tizzie doesn't suggest dropping the dreamfeed until they're established on solids for 8 weeks and then she slowly weans them off it. Well three nights ago BC was INCREDIBLY fussy for the dreamfeed and only had 40ml (although I'm sure most of this trickled out the side of his mouth!) but still made it to 7am. Then two nights ago he had about 10ml and again made it until 7am. So last night we skipped it and he made it though! WOO HOO! Notice how I don't say 'slept until 7am'? Well most mornings he wakes up around 6-630am but he entertains himself in the cot and doesn't call out for us to come and get him so we leave him until 7am and are then greeted with beautiful smiles. Hopefully he'll make it through again tonight and tomorrow and the next day and the next! Then Mummy and Daddy can go back to getting to bed at 8 or 9pm as preferred! Not that we have anything to complain about because we know he is such a good bub! Thanks Tizzie!