Hi
Can you just confirm that morning WU time is 8am please?
A feed and resettle at 6am and then sleep until 8am, yes?
You would get much better results with sleep training if you were to do it for all sleeps as LO gets much more practise of self settling that way. However it's your choice really sometimes for example people do one nap and the night sleep and leave the other nap for a pram or car nap so they can get out and about etc. If you do this then ideally you keep the routine consistent every day because the training is based on habit building.
At 8 months I'd expect to see more day time sleep. If your LO is OT from lack of day sleep this could be adding to the number of NWs. Has your LO always done these short naps of 30 mins? Are you able to extend one of those naps with a hand on or by picking up or any way at all at the moment?
I would suggest trying to get at least one of the naps longer, pick which you think might work easiest (or which you can do at home in the cot) and sleep train that nap daily, plus BT and I think you are more likely to get results.
Is LO formula fed? I know you mentioned bottle but I'm not sure if it's formula or breast milk. Breast milk is digested more quickly so LOs tend to need more night feeds where as formula fed LO tend to go longer at night younger. I would think 3 night feeds is quite a lot for formula fed baby to be honest and perhaps some of that is a prop to settle back to sleep. What size are the night feeds?
- Leo has become really fussy with eating and is not eating much. Could this possibly be due to the night feeds?
Maybe, if he is eating a lot over night he will need less in the day in which case you'd try to move some of the calories to day time. Let's see though which/if any should be dropped before you start. I could do with knowing if FF or BF and how much at eat night feed and if you have a feeling any of them would be easier to drop.
- I'm thinking of swapping his bottle and bathing around to focus more on his resettling. Is this a good idea?
Some LOs get over stimulated by a bath before BT so baths are moved to another time of day. But wherever bath time is you do need a BT milk feed just before night sleep. At this age I actually wouldn't be concerned about brushing teeth after the last milk feed (but I would at 12 months and some do like to switch things earlier...but you have night feeds so milk is staying on his teeth/gums several times anyway at present) but instead just focusing on a good feed and then settle to sleep. I would not do a last feed before bath time and then not feed again, no.