Help please - dont know what to do?

[Jellybaby75]

So my DS is 11 months and normally wakes up at 3am for a feed after self settling at 7pm. I have breastfed him back to sleep since i can remember but over the past week, he has pulled off so I put him down awake in his cot. He lies down and I stay in his room. EVERY time I sneak out his room, he wakes crying, like he senses I’ve gone. This goes on for hours. I’ve tried soothing him in cot but he will just not go back to sleep.

Out of desperation last night, I tried Ferber method and left the room and went in at intervals. It worked and he was asleep after 20 mins of overall crying.

I think I want to stop this night feed anyway as I’m going back to work soon and I don’t think he genuinely needs the milk. It would be easy enough to make it up in the day.

Should I continue with the sleep training tonight at his wake up and don’t feed him? I feel like i don’t want to make last nights crying pointless and follow through while I’ve started. But it’s so hard.

Isn’t there a sleep regression around 12 months? Is he working on walking?

EVERY time I sneak out his room, he wakes crying, like he senses I’ve gone

At the time when you would normally leave the room, wait an extra 10 minutes.

Develop your ninja skills to move very slowly and silently. Crawling/rolling along the floor is not out of the question when ninja leaving child's bedroom.