How can I reduce night feeds and bump up day feeds?

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First of all, I know this is pretty good going and I shouldn't complain!

DS is 17wks and ebf and steadfastly sticking to two feeds at night. They are quite chunky feeds, he is not just feeding to get to sleep again (he self-settles and has never been fed to sleep). The thing is, he doesn't feed particularly well in the day - he probably has two or three 'good' feeds and the rest is me offering and him half-heartedly sucking for 5mins and getting bored. And it's hard to push a bf baby to eat more if he doesn't want to!

I think that latch, supply etc are all fine. I've tried to feed him in a calm place to reduce distractibility but it's hard with his 2.7yo brother capering around

At what age 'should' they be able to go for a longer stretch without food? Typically he'll feed at 10pm and 2pm. I don't really mind feeding him in the night at the moment but DH is keen for him to go in his own room at 6mo and I'm such a lazy arse - I don't want to have to get out of bed and trek to another room to feed him

Should I be trying to slowly reduce his night feeds? How?

I don't think you should be trying to reduce them, particularly as you say he feeds well at night so obviously needs it. Besides, if he needs it then, how would you even get him to stop? If my DD was hungry no way she'd wait till morning. My DD night fed more than she used to at that age because she was so distracted during the day but she's back to sleeping through (I hope!). We were going to move DD out of our room at 6 months but have now decided against it until she is reliably sleeping through because, like you, I'm not schlepping down to hall to another room in the middle of the night. I sometimes struggle to get back to sleep when she does wake up and her being in another room wouldn't help that.