When do I drop off night feeds?

[Jennifer13]

Bek, getting up during the night when you have to run around after a toddler and a child during the day must be draining.

FWIW your DD sounds like a completely normal baby. Some babies do sleep through earlier (and that generally is more about the baby than whether they're breast or bottle fed at 8 mths), some take a bit longer. There are ways to encourage settling (have you tried the No Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley?), but at 8 mths she may need that extra feed nutritionally. Developmentally she's going through some huge changes.

The other thing you might like to try is fitting in an extra feed in the afternoon/evening and see if that helps her sleep a bit longer.

She will grow out of needing this feed, particularly as she gets older and eats more. But it doesn't mean she won't wake up and need comforting anyway, and in my experience, getting a baby back to sleep with bfing is often quicker than trying to settle them in other ways!