Dropping night feed please help!!

[SnowWhite26]

My lo is 6 months had 6oz bottles everry 3 hrs started weaning well. Has a dream feed at 10-1030 but wakes at 3 chatting. I leave him but he just chats until hes really shouting. I think its habit amd want to wean him off this. I gave him 3oz tonight to see what happens.He snuggled into me after so i think he wants a cuddle amd chat haha problem is i dont at 3 lol we just put him in with his 3 year old sister so i darent leave him chatting that long. Any advice? Should i stop dream feed or is going down to a small amount of milk a good way of dropping this habit. Thanks x

I think reducing the volume is often advised. Mine was bf so I found that hard to do with any precision and I ended up taking the path of least resistance as giving a feed settle them back to sleep more quickly (and quietly!) than shhh patting etc. Between 6-8 months the wake time crept slowly but surely back from about 3.30 to 5.30 when I then counted a feed as half of the morning feed, and gave the other half at 7. About a month later it all merged into a wake up at around 6.30 which I (grudgingly!) accepted as morning.
I think it was a combination of getting a bit older and also the progression of weaning from 1 to 3 good meals a day that did it. I'm sure I could have pushed to get it done sooner but to be honest I'm glad I didn't waste the time standing in the dark beside the cot rather than a quick feed and back to bed as it sorted itself out relatively quickly on it's own.

Thanks for ur reply. Did you do a dream feed? I know he doesn't really need it its just the chatting gets louder I go in and u can here the excitement in him as he knows hes being picked up and fed and having a cuddle.Its hard coz i dunno if its also just his age and him mentally learning to talk etc thats waking him up and at least once he has even a few ounces of milk he will go bk to sleep but may take a while chatting. I dropped dream feed for a few days he woke up more in then night. Maybe i should just go with it lol i dunno anymore x

No, I was never brave enough to attempt dream feeds in case they became wide awake feeds! In your position, I would stick out the small feed at 3 for now and reassess in a few weeks time as the weaning progresses. I wouldn't worry too much about creating a habit just yet as I think they are so changeable at this age. If it's still a problem in a month or so you can always tackle it then.

He only took 3 ozs at 1130 dream feed and just woke and i offered 5 he slowly drank that and was fast asleep. He is stirring again and making noise. So annoying that he seems to wake up after feed and chat then eventually settle again! He had a big tea so think that why only small dream feed. I dunno why he seems so disturbed after a night feed :( frustrating and i worry coz hes in with 3 year old sister now who has been fine all week but a bit tossy turny in feed tonight and hes just waking up for a chat again now :( ahhh why cant he be normal and stay asleep after night feed!