My DS is now 6 months old and as such we've decided to try and knock his night feed off. He was going to sleep at 7pm, having a dream feed at 11pm, waking for 3 fl oz between 3 and 4am and then sleeping till about 6.30 ish.
My HV and a couple of friends advised us to give him water at night instead of milk, both friends vowing that their babies slept through the night after a few difficult nights as their babies got used to it.
We're now on night 4 and it's getting worse. He's waking now at 2.30 and then pretty much every hour after that, before being wide awake at 5.30. He doesn't seem hungry, to be honest. He has a few sips of water and goes back to sleep, but just keeps waking up. He doesn't scream and cry but chunters enough to keep us awake and let us know he's not particularly happy.
Any bright ideas? I'd forgotten how hard multi-wakings are. But I'm worried about going back to milk feeds as if we don't tackle that, we could be feeding him in the night for months yet!