Breastfeeding to combi feeding and stop feeding to sleep

I want to start officially combi feeding, my baby used to reject bottles but recently accepts them when I offer every now and again and I want to routinely start with every bed time, is it best to do a bottle in a different room to usual, bath, story etc. then bed? Normally I do bath first. I want to teach my baby to self settle and stop feeding association (there is nothing wrong with that!) I am up every 1-2 hours at night I'm absolutely exhausted, it's been like this for 4 months and I really need to stop this cycle and get my partner to help with feeds. She is so tired all the time, 8-10 hours at night and 3-4 naps only lasting half an hour. I just feel like I can't do it anymore at times I know motherhood is hard and a lot of people go through these frequent wake ups but I hope I can improve them.

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Do you put down awake? I’m still EBF and was going through everything you’re describing. We broke the association by bringing the feeding forward a bit with an activity after like reading. We used a light projector to distract when putting down (or he used to cry the second he hit the cot). Then goodnight and leave room. Theres a bit of crying at first but they quickly learn and bedtimes aren’t a problem anymore. Having tried bottles at night, I can say that it doesn’t make a difference what/ how much they’re drinking to how much they wake up as it’s more habitual than anything and that’s what you need to break

If anything, I find they are harder to settle after the bottle

@Grace not yet, I'm feeding to sleep at the moment and if not then rocking. She did have a dummy but I've cut that out now. Then after Christmas going to try and sleep train, put down awake. Yeah I did think it probably won't make a difference but thought it's worth a shot and to relieve a bit of pressure also I'm not sure how much she's actually drinking. She is on boob every 2 hours basically at the moment. I know she is still young and will change but I can't keep doing this, don't think the sleep will change until I sleep train her as it's been going on for so long now.

It was same here. I’ve not fully sleep trained (still feeding every 3-4 hours typically) but knocking bed time on head has made a massive difference and gradually you can do same for naps and overnight (as in, put down awake). I found that it encouraged longer stretches of sleep and self soothing. My sisters fully Ferber’ed and are evangelical about it but we live in a small flat above people and my partner can’t hack the crying so this works for us x

However if you can sleep train fully, go for it!! There’s lots of Facebook support groups.

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