When and how to drop second night feed?

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Hiya, just wanna preface this with I don’t usually post so if this is in the wrong area sorry!

For some context, my baby is 8 weeks old on Friday. He has always been formula fed, I tried to breastfeed but he’s such a hungry boy and I couldn’t produce enough milk so it was just upsetting us both :( he’s only gained weight since birth (born at 37 weeks 7lb5 and today weighs 12lb6!).

We have always been on a strict schedule of bottle at 12am, 4am, 8am then so on every 4 hours. He is currently having 6oz bottles and has been for about two weeks now.

At the minute I am often having to wake him for his 12 bottle/he is sleeping until 1:30ish then crying for it. Same with the 4am one. I am honestly starting to think the 4am bottle is habit and was just wondering when’s an appropriate time to start trying to drop that and how I’d go about it? I’ve read the first feed of the night is the most important as that’s when they’re doing majority of growing, and it helps prevent SIDS (no idea how true that is) I’m 22 so I don’t have friends at the minute I can ask about parenting, and with stuff like this I have no idea what I’m doing.

Thanks in advance x

From memory, by 8 weeks you can stop waking them up for feeds. Feed him when he wakes. Sounds like he's doing well and growing, let him sleep.

Agree with the previous poster. As he’s gaining weight well you don’t need to wake him to feed. I wake my 4 month old for one feed at around 3am but she is very low centile in weight (below 0.4). I had stopped waking my first for feeds by about a month.