6 month old waking frequently for short 'comfort' feed

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I have a smiley gorgeous Very active 6 month old. The problem is his absolute refusal to accept a bottle (whether expressed milk or formula) and his frequent night waking for a short comfort feed. His waking is so frequent I have given up transferring him back into his cot between feeds and he sleeps between my husband and I. He is my second baby and I admit the same happened with my first son who is now 2 1/2.
However my first son accepted a bottle of expressed milk really happily from only a few weeks old, by 4 months i began combination feeding until i stopped breastfeeding all together at 6 months and this coincided with him sleeping through pretty well in his own bed. He made this change, from sleeping with me and my husband, to sleeping in his own cot without sleep training of any kind. It just happened easily and naturally.
So how can I get ds2 to accept a bottle and how can I get him out of our bed and sleeping for lovely long periods of time?
Thank you for any helpful suggestions you may share

I think your experience with dc1 is just a coincidence and getting him to take a bottle won't automatically equal better sleep. Sorry if that's not what you want to hear.

Can't do links at the mo but have a look at Kellymom at sleeping through the night and reverse cycling.

Have a look at askdrsears too, 31 ways to get your baby to sleep and 12 alternatives for the all night nurser should help.

6 months is also a growth spurt, so he might just settle down anyway.

As for bottle refusal, there are loads of threads in the Mn archive.

Jiltedjohnsjulie thank you so much for directing me to those websites. They have been incredibly helpful and made me feel so much better and happier. My mum has been really negative about my nighttime nursing and my husband has recently become negative about it as well. Talking to all my friends, whose babies sleep through, and have done since they were a few weeks or months old, I began to feel like I was an incompetent mother! Did know deep down I was just following my instincts and that's got to be a good thing. Like I said, my ds1 just stopped of his own volition and moved seamlessly into his own cot and slept through. I'm sure ds2 will also do this in his own time. And I will pat myself on the back for following my gut and ignoring the opinionated and frankly uninformed. I could have cried with relief this morning on reading those websites as it's the first time I've read something that validated what I was doing. Thank you again. X

Now I've welled up. Very un-MN I know . Did you know that only 16% of 6 month olds actually sleep through the night and research shows that if you are bfing at 7 months, you are actually getting more sleep than your ff peers. Have a look here.

You might also like this slightly tongue in cheek article called Got Sleep and have a look at Why Love Matters.

You might want to print off the studies on normal infant sleep for some of your doubters too .