Dream Feeding and How You Do It

by AccuMed Posted in Health Care .

There are many important factors to remember when it comes to health care in the lives of infant babies. As a parent, you can help with good health care at home. Health care at home towards your baby mostly consists out of making sure that they eat well and get enough sleep.

Dream feeding has been very proactive in getting parents to get their babies to sleep better through the night. A baby who is sleeping well also allows parents to get a healthy amount of sleep in during the night to be able to attend to the baby’s needs fully the next day.

Dream feeding is known to help towards getting babies to sleep through the night and is also known as any big meal that is given to a baby during sleep or just after waking.

To accomplish dream feeding, you need to hold the baby gently while sleeping in a feeding position and try to stimulate the rooting reflex, offering your baby a bottle. Many babies can feed this way without waking up.

Newborn babies can awaken easily as they become hungry frequently. The best way to get more sleep in is if you go to bed right after the baby was fully fed. Which begs the question as to how well dream feeding works.

Unfortunately, there has never been extensive research put into the practice of dream feeding. Many parents do admit that it works well for them and provides an overall better sleep pattern for the whole family.

Getting a baby to sleep can sometimes cause unrest and difficulty to get them back to sleep. Being able to feed a baby without waking them is a great way for them to get sufficient sleep in while still being fed enough.

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Dream Feeding and How You Do It

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