Advice - losing the late night feed

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Just some advice please. My DS is almost 12weeks, at last weigh in a few weeks ago was 13.5 pounds (6kg) which is a very good size and am sure even heavier now. Wondered if anyone has advice on how to wean him off his late night feed which always occurs at approx 3-4am? It’s been unchanged at this time for many weeks and seems to be his favourite of the whole 24hrs! (he’s formula fed) The feed itself isn’t such a big issue but he begins stirring for it much earlier and consequently our sleep is really broken as you can’t relax in anticipation of it. His previous feed to it is at 11-11.30pm. I keep being told by 12weeks it should be edging forward until it eventually merges with the 7am feed when he gets up but there’s no sign of that happening yet. We’ve tried reducing it a bit but he gets v upset and just feels like we’re stuck and wondering if it’ll stay like this until he’s weaned? Any suggestions gratefully received.

Not sure you'll be able to at the moment as he is obviously hungry for it. 12 weeks is still very young to not have a night feed. My 7mo has a bottle at 7pm and then one still at 3/4am he is currently weaning but still hungry during night, we're only now lowering the amount. I think it's one of those things you'll just have to accept until he no longer wants/needs it

Thanks Themrmen, you're probably right there. It's strange because on one hand I know 12weeks is still very young not to have a night feed but then the books often say by 3months they're sleeping through although perhaps sleeping through just means 5hrs which he does in fact do. Find the nights so hard as i wasn't a good sleeper prior to DS and now even worse. The lack of sleep means i really don't function well during the day and feel bad i'm not at my best for him. Still all part of the territory with babies i guess and just hope it improves at some point.