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I guess I've earned these bags. My baby doesn't sleep through the night. Because I'm nursing on demand she dream feeds. She also gets a burst of energy between 10pm-1am where she wants to play with me and daddy. She only likes to sleep when I'm sleeping. She sleeps light as well. As always, I'm questioning my parenting. #melaninmommy #cocoakisses #firsttimemom #firsttimemummy #dreamfeed #blackmomsbelike #blackmomsblog #blackmomskillingit #blackbabies #blackmomblogger #sleepymom #nomakeupselfie #bedhead #iwokeuplikethis #iwokeuplikedis #mommyselfie #bedselfie #naturalhair #locs #naturalhairmom #longlocs #naturalhairdreams #locs4life #naturalhairsistas #naturalhairisdope https://www.instagram.com/fabulizemag/p/BuGm9xol1eW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8f40l7bqpeos

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Baby Sleep Tips 1 : Dreamfeed

Baby Sleep Tips 1 : Dreamfeed

When you go to bed does your newborn baby wake up just you fall asleep? If you have a problem this method is just for you. 

  The dreamfeed is a method that feeding your baby right before you are going to bed. So what you earn? The dreamfeed helps to prevent baby from sleeping wake up just after the parents finally fall asleep.

A lot of parents think that this is the pinnacle of sleep…

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Just twin things: night

I love the dream feed. I walk upstairs after my day is done and pick up just one baby. I nurse just one baby while I rock just one baby. I kiss just one baby on the top of the head, and lay them back down in the crib. Then I wait for a moment and pick up my other just one baby for their turn- the only time in the whole day that each baby gets to be the only one. Sometimes I think about all the things I did for Roland that I can't do for these little ones and it makes me sad. Sometimes I think of the things I've had to do, like sleep training, to survive with twins and I wish I had done so with Roland. They each get their own pluses and minuses. In the dream feed just one baby smiles. They aren't worried about how often they are left on the floor while I chase brother. They don't care that I don't prop them up to walk. They don't mind that I never read them the hobbit or the entire chronicles of narnia while they were getting ready to sleep. These are all artificial measurements of their precious, numbered baby days. This time I know that these sweet, sleepy smiles are leaving soon. My precious last babies are going to be toddlers in just a couple handfuls of weeks, and the years will march on. In the knowing there is more patience to sit in the moonlight. I write their smooth cheeks and unworried brows on my heart.

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Sleep Training - Night 1

My son is 6.5 months and is not sleeping through the night yet. I know he can do it so I’ve decided to bite the bullet and sleep train him. He has become somewhat predictable with his sleep, down at 7 for the night, he sleeps until 1, eats for 10 minutes max and is back down until after 4 when he hears daddy, at which point I bring him into bed with me, feed him and we both happily go back to sleep until 7 when we have to get up and get Hailey ready for her day of school. I wanted to take baby steps and attempt to cut out his 1am feed and a friend suggested I dream feed before I went to bed. 

So my approach for the first night was to dream feed before I went to bed (this meant staying up later than usual as I head to bed early lol) in hopes of him skipping his 1am feeding. So just before 11pm I quietly go into his room and pick him up out of bed and feed him while trying not to wake him. I successfully do this and he eats for his usual length of time. I put him back down in his bed passed out like I do at 1am after he eats and quietly left his room and climbed into bed. Well wouldn’t you know it, 1am rolls around and who is wide awake? Mr. Andrew of course. 

I’m secretly hoping it’s just a matter of going in and giving him his soother and back off to dream land he would go. I go into his room and instantly all I smell is poop. I thought for sure he had pooped so I pick him up and give his bum a sniff. Turns out there was no poop and now that I have picked him up there is no putting him back down wide awake. My usual approach to get him to go back to sleep when just the soother won’t do is to feed him. Well I’m trying to sleep train so this is not an option. I try rocking him, he gets sleepy but doesn’t pass out like he usually does (he thinks it’s play time). I try lying him down in his bed and tucking him in and putting on his aquarium like I do at bed time and leaving but that didn’t work. Finally after almost an hour and a half I get him sound enough asleep that I can walk out of the room. Well wouldn’t you know it 15 minutes later he’s up, crying, looking to eat.

I feed him, he passes out part way through so I end the feeding session before he pop’s off, put him back to bed and go climb back into bed myself. By this time it’s 2:45 am, my husband will be up for work in an hour and 15 minutes and Andrew will be up again in about an hour and a half like usual. 4am rolls around, Paul gets up for work and I fall back asleep waiting for the baby to wake. For the first time in months Andrew sleep’s past 4 and doesn’t wake up again until 6am. Now had I not been up for 2 hours trying to get him back to sleep I would consider this a success. 

I usually get discouraged right away if things don’t go the way I was hoping for. After breakfast and a cup of coffee this morning I’ve decided last night was a partial success. Yes he skipped the 1am feed and ended up eating at 2:30 anyway, but he slept through daddy getting ready for work and leaving for the day, something he hasn’t done ever I don’t think. The white noise in his room is finally working and he is slowly learning to sleep all night. I’m going to take the same approach with him tonight, except maybe I’ll pump before bed and offer him a bottle instead, that way I know for sure how much milk he’s consumed.