DS is 6.5 months old. There is a 5 year gap between him and DD so I feel like I've forgotten everything I learned the first time around! Until about a month ago he was a great sleeper, went down at 7pm after his bottle, had a dreamfeed at 10ish and then slept until 6am/7am. Unfortunately four weeks ago he suddenly started waking repeatedly from 2/3am onwards and is generally up for the day from 5am.
My question is, should we just drop the 10pm dreamfeed since it's clearly not helping him to sleep through anymore or will this make his sleep even worse? I don't mind staying up to feed him if it means I get a decent stretch of sleep but now that he's waking repeatedly in the wee hours and my day starts at 5am at the latest it's a struggle to keep my eyes open until 10pm! Or should I wait until he's on three solid meals a day to drop the dream feed? Is it too early for him to be having three meals?
He doesn't have his first bottle til 7am and will rarely finish it so I really don't think it's hunger that's waking him.
For context, he is formula fed and is currently having 2 solid meals a day (which he really enjoys) plus 5 bottles (including dream feed) taking anywhere from 5oz-7oz at each feed.
What would you do in this position?
Thank you.