Struggle for last feed of the night

[beachavendrea]

my ds is 8 months old and I really struggle to give him the last feed of the night. Today it turned into a battle and I ended up giving him his bottle right before bed which I don't like doing as we worked really hard to break the suck to sleep association.

I am giving him his dinner at 5:00 and he eats quite a bit and then his bottle of expressed milk at 6:30. Is this not enough time in between 'meals'?

He has three more breast feeds and three meals a day, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

when do you want to give him the bottle? i'm not quite sure what you are asking?

Ds2 has been going through this recently and is the same age. I wanted to encourage him to take his bedtime feed as he had started waking early in the morning as he was hungry.

I dropped ds's 2.00 feed and brought his tea forward to 4.30 (he has his main meal at lunchtime). I now give him his bedtime feed at 6.30 downstairs with the rest of the family, he takes about half then has a play. I take him upstairs at 7.00 change his nappy, dim the lights and feed him the rest, it seems to have worked for us.

Oh forgot to say that although he is fed right before bedtime I don't think it necessarily means that you will have problems with associating feeding with going to sleep. Ds2 is still awake when I put him in his cot and with ds1 I dropped his feed at around 14 months and he didn't seem fazed by it at all.

Thanks maybe I'll try dropping the mid afternoon feed, he does seem to take a lot at this time and yesterday we did it quite late at 3:00. Did you replace this with a snack or water or anything?

I think he is going through a funny stage at the moment too as his naps have gone haywire!