7 month old awake all night and feeding more in night than day (bottle fed)

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Until 6 months, my dd was breast fed, but I fell ill with tonsillitis and ended up in a and e. Anyway, she is now formula fed (with one tiny feed a day on the breast, before bed) but tbh, I dont think she is getting much milk from the breast.
For the last 2 weeks, she has been waking more and more in the night. She cries every hour or more, when dummy comes out, or just wanting to be comforted. She becomes hungry at 1am (has 7oz bottle) and then at 5am (another 7 oz) and awakes at 6.30. Im so tired everyday as I wake up feeling more tired than the night before!
I have tried everything I can think of, like giving water in the night, trying the stage 2 formula (for hungrier babies) and nothing is making a difference. She also has started to sleep in the bed with me, just so I can get some sleep.
She is on 3 pureed meals a day and is eating well. She never seems to take as much milk during the day... maybe 5 oz at a time, for breakfast, before lunch, mid afternoon, and tea time then bedtime (plus little breast feed to sleep!)
I also have a 4 year old who was breast fed until 1 and never had this night time waking to this extent.
Any advice folks?

It sounds like she's swapping day milk drinking for night.

Start every day at the same time and offer milk. Start to decrease the amount she takes in the middle of night slowly so that's she's not having the full amount but still settles back to sleep. I would even consider dropping one of the puree feeds for another milk feed until she builds up to having more milk in the day.

Also I would limit her day time sleep to 4.5 hours. Does she fall asleep by herself?

Hi, your situation sounds quite similar to mine (right down to the one tiny bf a day at bedtime).
I agree wiht Nannynz about trying to gradually increase the milk she takes in the day. I've had the same problem with DS- he's now 8 & a half months. I noticed that he was eating 3 very good solid meals per day but didn't drink much milk. For example he's been refusing his afternoon milk feed because of a very big lunch around 12. What I've done in the last few days (and I think it's helping a bit with the night waking too) is I've been giving him a slightly smaller lunch and then I offer him a bottle of milk around 2.30 or 3.00 pm either right before or after his nap. I also offer some milk before lunch, which I've found doesn't actually affect how much lunch he eats.

The other thing I notice in your post is that you seem to have a serious dummy problem (we have the same exact problem). It's possible that your daughter is waking because of a sleep association issue- the dummy- and then the milk acts as a comforter. As I said, the same is happening with us- the dummy situation is getting worse & DS has started wanting milk again in the night, even though he'd cut out the night feeds all on his own months ago. So we've decided to do some form of sleep training, i.e. to ditch the dummy (and comfort him through the transition). So that's something to have a think about too...