Feeding Baby Before She Wakes

This really depends on how old she is. If she needs "fuel" to get her through the night b/c she's still little and needing to eat every 3 or 4 hours, then do what you need to do to get some sleep!

If she's a little older, then I would suggest not "dream feeding" her b/c she needs to start establishing a sleep pattern and learning to get herself back to sleep! If she's feeding for comfort and soothing then try rubbing her back and talking quietly to her. If she's little and hungry, then feed her!

Yes--- That may help her. How old is she?? It depends how old she is--she may still be awake at 3 if shes super young. Gl!

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How will you do this? Set an alarm? I would just let both of you sleep. Her patterns will keep changing and you may end up feeding her unncessarily.

Warning - it'll create a habit eventually.

My DD is now 7mos old, and when she was that age, I was doing the 10pm dream feed because I honestly thought it was helping her to get through the night.

All it's really doing is creating a habit. When you try to stop this (because I'm assuming your goal is to get her sleeping through the night), she's going to start waking up on her own at that time, because she's used to getting some love and a snack from mom!
This is exactly what happened to us.

We eventually had to do CIO. I had created a nasty habit with the dreamfeeds. Now is the time where you can start sleep training her a bit. Let her wake to eat when she's hungry. Otherwise, what you'll wind up with eventually is a combination of her natural waking schedule - plus the schedule that artificially created for her.

I did something similar w/ my DS. I knew he was going to wake up and I would just have it (my boob) ready for him as soon as he started to wake.
That way he didn't fully wake up and want to play.
Worked for me. :)
Do what works for you. ;)

i waited to let my daughter tell me when she was hungry and from a week old she slept from like 8ish to about 4 or 5 and then ate and went back to sleep until 9ish. this way she is never overfed

I never did that with any of my children for fear of choking. Its better I think when they are fully awake so you know they are actually hungry