When/how to stop night feeds for 11mo baby (bottle fed)?

[Angelil]

My 11mo son is extremely physically active and strong. He lifted his head on his own for sustained periods from 4wo. Nursery say he acts like an 18mo. He is this close to walking, a passionate climber, and an extremely fast crawler.
He also eats extremely well during the day (3 meals + 500-700ml formula). Like his dad he is long and skinny (73cm & 9kg).
However, given his imminent first birthday I'm aware that I should probably cut out the night feeds (usually 1 a night). He has 4 bottles a day usually of between 120ml and 240ml (the latter right before bed; he usually drinks 180-240ml at that time).
How would you advise doing this for an extremely active and physically strong baby (assuming you would advise it)? I don't want to deprive him if he truly needs the calories. He is also teething however and while we use Calpol, Anbesol, teething toys etc for this, I'm also conscious of potentially feeding him to comfort him and want to avoid this (although he always makes very clear whenever he doesn't want milk by turning his head and/or physically pushing away a bottle with his hands).
He is my first child and I just feel utterly thick regarding this issue. TIA for any advice.

[hormonesorDHbeingadick]

I would drop the day time bottles, adding in snacks before bottles during the night.

Btw nurofen is better than calpol for teething.

[legalseagull]

When we cut out the night feed we did it 30ml a night until we were down to about 50ml in a bottle. We stayed at 50ml for a few nights and then just stopped it entirely and just gave a cuddle. It worked amazingly

[FriedasCarLoad]

I’d reduce the amount in nighttime bottles over the course of a week or so.

He’ll just have more calories in the day to make up for it, so don’t worry about him not getting enough :)

[Angelil]

Thanks all! As I suspected then.
We are away 22-26/10 then 01-03/11 so will probably start reducing the bottles’ volume after that, once we are stably located in one place.
Thanks also for the Nurofen tip - we live in NL though so not sure it’s available here! But I can get it when in the UK :)

[saywhatwhatnow]

We dropped a little earlier than you and DS is also very very active (walking by 10months). I made sure he was eating well in the day, and that tea was early enough (with lots of protein and carbs) so he would always take a massive 8/9oz bottle at bedtime. There was no way he could've been starving 5 hours later. I decreased the amount of milk over a couple of weeks and then offered water and cuddles. He was a bit irate at the sippy cup but soon got over it.

[Angelil]

So just to update. He’s 13 months now. After our trips we started reducing the milk offered at night: first to 90ml milk for 1-2 weeks, then 60 milk/30 water, and finally 30 milk/60 water (all for 1-2 weeks each). He now drinks a lot of water during the day anyway (at least 150ml) from a sippy cup, has a 180ml bottle of milk mid-morning, and eats 3 good meals before 240ml milk at night. So he rarely wakes up at night anyway anymore (...has probably figured out that 30ml milk isn’t worth his while ) and when he does we just offer 90ml water at the same temperature as milk. He has also switched to cows’ milk now so not sure if that’s made a difference as well. Now to reduce the volume of the 2 big bottles that he still has!! Thanks to all of you for your help. Maybe one day all of this will help someone else too