Longer sleep stretches

[Bringmesleep]

Hey all!! Looking for some advice as I don’t know where to start!

my little boy is 6.5months old and still waking every 2-3 hours for a feed. He is bf but gets a formula bottle before bed. We have been weaning for about a month and he gets dinner at about 5 with his brother and we have more recently introduced breakfast too. He self settles at bed time but I don’t know how to get him to sleep longer stretches at night! We tried to do subtle sleep training but I have no idea where to start as we were at it for about an hour during the night and he just screamed for so long that I had to feed him.

i feel god awful because f all he wants is to be fed then I feel like I should just do it to keep stress at a minimum…. In other words only I would be stressed rather than all of us but at the same time I know he probably doesn’t need it nutritionally and I need sleep!

any tips??

We did ferber method sleep training as my lo never been a good sleeper and 6 months old I was literally hanging on my knees. I literally couldn't cope anymore. It didn't solve everything but gave me some stretch of sleep which I was thankful for. My lo does have a dummy to help her self soothe though.

My lo never fell asleep to bottle, she woke because she was wanting me to lay right beside her and hold her as that is how she fell asleep and wanted to do that again when she woke.

I also don't know your situation, but moving into their own room certainly helped us. Still had a bottle over night. But slept better.

There is a formula when you BF with ferber guy who suggests when to feed. I don't know it. Some people will say co sleep which if your comfortable go for it. Personally I'm not and only done it in her room when she's unwell and transfer when she's asleep.