Stopping 1yr old night feeds struggling horribly

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Hi,
I need some advice as i am at my wits end, i feel so stressed emontionally drained and physically exhausted.
My 15 month old has still been waking up for 4 or 5 bottles a night, even though he eats well during the day. - he wakes up screaming for a bottle constantly all night, i have tried to water down his formula, and he knows! He just throws the bottle screaming more and more. And i have tried water & juice an awful lot and the same response. I am really struggling now, i live in a flat and i am really worried about the neighbours also.
So, for the last three nights i have stopped the bottles completley (having tried the watered down method before hand), so i have now decided to try to stop them completley, and it has proved to be more difficult than i could have ever imagined, the past 3 nights i have been up mainly all night catching 10 min sleep here and there. My son is just screaming and screaming worst than ever, screaming my flat down, lying all over the bed screaming and then getting of the bed and running around the bedroom screaming and crying. I have ended up giving him a small bottle of milk at around 5.30-6am because he gets even more destraught at this time, im guessing he needs the drink from all of the screaming all night. I am also co-sleeping now since he turned one, he would not go into his cot and cried all night, but thats another story!. Anyway, i wrote down his wake ups last night.. (he goes to sleep around 9pm-9.30pm even though i put him to bed at around 8pm).
11:30pm - 10 minutes crying, 12am: 15 minutes crying, 2am: 2 hours crying, 6am: 10 minutes crying then gave a bottle which got him to sleep, then he woke up at 8am for the day.

Next day
1am: 2 & half hours crying, 5.30am: crying for around 15 mins, gave a small bottle of milk and went back to sleep untill 7am when he got up for the day.

I am really finding this exhausted - he woke up at 7am today screaming having a full blown tantrum flying all over the floor screaming and screaming and pushing me away when i tried to pick him up. His behaviour is just terrible for a one year old, i dont know what to do, i have spoken to two health visitors and they believe it is teething and told me to give calpol before bed, so i have done but it does not work.

The trouble is he’s used to having formula 4-5x a night so he’ll be genuinely hungry at those times. Going cold turkey is going to be really tough on him.

Why not try slowly reducing the size of the bottles instead of watering them down? That way it will still taste the same but he can gradually get used to having less calories at night. Try encourage more calories in the day at the same time and hopefully he will shift into a better day/night feeding pattern.

Agree with PP that reducing the number of bottles would be better than watering down or just stopping cold turkey. I'd try and fill him up during the day, maybe a bowl of cereal or porridge before bed. Will he have cow's milk (or alternative) rather than formula?

He’s used to getting fed so will continue looking for the feeds until you reduce them gradually. He should be sleeping all night and should not be getting baby bottles. Does he get himself to sleep or is he put to sleep with a bottle?