To night wean or not...

[Srsly]

DS2 is almost 10 months old.

He's an absolute angel. Textbook baby. Naps well twice a day. Formula fed. Has a bottle before his naps at 9 and 11 then one before bed at 7ish.

He still wakes at night. DS1 was a terrible daytime napper but I'm sure he slept through by about 9-10 months old. He sleeps from 7-3/4am when he wakes. If I give him milk he's straight back to sleep and the whole process is done in about 10 minutes.

But I'm wondering now if at 10 months old I should start thinking about dropping that middle of the night bottle, and if it might help him sleep through.

I'm not actually that fussed getting up and feeding him. It doesn't bother me as I appreciate one easy wake up a night is very doable! BUT at some point it'll have to stop. Should I just wait it out? Or purposefully wean him off it.

Would be very interested to know how many other formula fed 10 month olds still wake at night for milk or if weaning helped them to sleep through!!

Personally I'd wait a bit longer. My 2.10yo still wakes in the night, he's been night weaned since 14 months. Some kids just don't sleep through.

Most of the guidance on this says to wait until at least 12m unless they drop the feed themselves

Oh that's interesting to hear.

I'm actually not expecting him to sleep through, I know the stretches he does are appropriate abs we are very lucky really!

Just more of a concern that he's having a big bottle of formula in the middle of the night. Wasn't sure if that was 'ok'. I know with BF it's fine but wasn't sure if it was any different with formula.

If not, I'm sort of glad as I know it would be a right battle to get him back to sleep in the middle of the night without his milk. It's much easier to just feed him then crawl back to bed!.