Why We Hold Off Breakfast During Sleep Training
Show notes
Wondering why your sleep consultant is asking you to skip breakfast while working on night sleep? It sounds backwards, but there's solid science behind it.
In this episode, Sally and Bec explain why breakfast is often the last meal they reintroduce during sleep work, and why temporarily holding it off helps babies take better milk feeds, drop night wakings organically, and actually sleep longer stretches. If your baby's been reverse cycling (tanking up overnight, picking at day feeds), this strategy might be the missing piece.
What You'll Learn:
• Why breakfast impacts your 11am milk feed more than you think
• How overnight feeds directly affect your baby's appetite all day long
• The connection between solids timing and night wakings
• How to redistribute calories across 24 hours (not just the day)
• When to bring breakfast back in, and why babies sometimes aren't even interested
• Why focusing on lunch and dinner helps more with overnight sleep
• How rhythm and routine create calmer, more relaxed babies
• The difference between genuine hunger and habitual night feeds
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:07 Why breakfast interferes with milk feeds
04:50 Looking at feeds across 24 hours
08:27 Creating appetite with strategic gaps
11:19 When baby drops night feeds but doesn't want breakfast
13:03 How routine takes the guesswork out of parenting
15:53 The method to the madness
🎙️ ABOUT NAP TRAPPED
Hosted by sleep consultants Sally Woods (The Sleep Concierge) and Bec Maher (The Sleep Centre), Nap Trapped helps tired parents solve baby sleep challenges with warmth, evidence, and no judgement. Every week we turn your questions into practical solutions, with a side of Aldi chocolate.
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