How do I nightwean my baby off his bottle?

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Two weeks ago, I stopped bf my 8.5 month old baby during the night because I could no longer cope with the sleep deprivation. He now has 2 - 3 bottles during the night (300 ml in total). This was probably the amount he was getting from the breast because his nappy is just as wet in the mornings as it used to be. I am now wondering how I can get him to stop feeding during the night? Can I just go cold turkey? 300 ml seems a lot, wouldn't he be absolutely ravenous if we just stopped feeding him during the night? He is also not very keen on solids, I don't know if this is relevant.

Do you have another way that will settle baby to sleep? Or does baby always feed to sleep?

Could you try him with water in the bottles? It's how I stopped my bf baby feeding in the night, however they were quite a bit older (15months)so it might not be as effective.

Cold turkey, replace with water. 3 nights of hell with my first, the second had one sip and that was it.

Cold turkey all the way

I did it with BF (felt awful because obviously that also provides an extra comfort too). But, it took 1 night and the next night DD didn't wake up looking for it.

I just simply decided I wasn't going to feed that night (I didn't believe she needed it - was on 3 meals a day etc) and comforted her by holding / cuddling.

Once you've made the decision, stick to your guns and don't give in!

I don't know any techniques but with mine, we picked at time (2am to start with) at the same age and didn't feed before that, after the 10pm feed. Then gradually pushed that back. If DC woke earlier than that, we'd try to settle her without feeding.

Thanks for the advice everyone! He doesn't feed too sleep, we put him back down awake and he will either drop off by himself or need to have his head stroked for a few minutes.
I will try offering water when I can muster up the courage! Feel a bit nervous about it because he's having such big night feeds.

Make sure he has supper before bed, mashed banana can be good

I'd keep feeding him but I fully acknowledge I'm a soft touch literally only last week stopped breastfeeding my almost 2 year old all night.

I'd reduce the bottles rather than cold turkeying personally. PP's suggestion of deciding on a time you won't offer a bottle for is w good one. Or, when I reduced breastfeeding with DD, I used to only feed every other time she woke.

My eldest loved the night bottles.
Pick a bottle. Say you normally give 7oz. Now give 6oz for six days, 5oz for 5 days, 4oz for 4 days, 3oz for 3 days, 2oz for 2 days. Then 1oz milk followed by 1oz water. Then just 1oz water. My boy refused the water and that was it.
Then pick the next bottle to cut

I have thought about doing this Justanotherquestioner, but he rarely drinks the same amount at the same time. Sometimes he'll have 70 ml for his first feed and the next night he'll want 150 ml. I presume that's because he was fully bf beforehand.
My plan now is to offer just warm water until 3 am, and then gradually push that feed back. Fingers crossed!!

I would personally go for water - how I did it. But then my lo was only taking about 120mls all night.

The other way is condense those 3 bottles into one. As lo may be generally hungry? if my lo had a feed in night put her right off her bottles the next day (drinking less per feed) and solids.

How did the water trick work? Does it just not fill them up the same? My DS is waking for feeds again and guzzling but then doesn't seem at all hungry in the morning until about 10:30 so I want to shift his eating to day rather than the night!

He currently has 6oz at 11pm as dreamfeed which used to get him through until 7am but now he wakes 4:45-5:30 for milk again then refuses to drink milk or eat solids until mid morning!