Hi there and welcome to the BW
I think a change in routine is necessary. It looks like your LO is taking a very early morning nap; a short afternoon nap and a late evening nap (is that a 3 hr nap from 2.30-5.30)? I would probably start with an earlier bedtime too because he is only getting 8.5-9 hrs of sleep, which is not enough and he is probably waking up so much at night because he is not on an age-appropriate schedule and also because he is overtired. The bottle also sounds like its a prop. Don't be afraid of an earlier bedtime... it will help him catch up on some sleep and most babies need up to 11-12hrs at night (some can do with less but 8.5-9 in my opinion is too little)
So the plan of action (if this was my LO) would be:
- do an earlier bedtime of 6.30pm (depending on when that last nap ends. If its a 3 hr nap, then you need to shorten it to 45mins so that he is ready for bed when you put him down earlier as otherwise he will just fight the earlier bedtime)
- in the morning, try to stretch his A time by adding 10-15 mins every 3-4 days until your morning nap is closer to 9am
- as your pushing the morning nap, also push the afternoon nap as your A time in the afternoon is quiet short (1.5hrs) and most babies around this age can handle 3 hrs
- limit the catnap to 45mins and offer bedtime around 3hrs later. The catnap may not be necessary once he's able to do 3 hrs between naps and is taking 2 good naps but if either nap is short, the catnap may need to stay for a little bit. But that we can work on as some LOs take it and others don't. We were done with the catnap with DD1 by 9 months and with DD2 around 8 months.
He probably doesn't need to be fed as much as he is being fed so I would pick 2 night feeds, where you are going to feed him and for the other wake ups do pu/pd.
Let me know what you think
