One week on and things have changed - thanks to all the great suggestions! Noah still wakes up every 2h but we've now got a nanny that has to get up at night ... JUST KIDDING. We've figured out that he isn't always hungry when he wakes up - usually it's the teeth but often it's also just a bad dream or some other disturbance.

So here is the routine that has worked a treat to make him go without feeds for longer:

1) Proper feed (with some baby rice) between 7pm and 8pm
2) Bath between 8pm - 9pm
3) 5 min breastfeeding top up then straight to bed
4) He wakes up, I go to his room, don't say anything and just gently rub his tummy. In most cases that puts him straight back to sleep within 10 minutes (of which he cries 5)
5) Next time he wakes up (usually between 2pm and 3pm) he gets a proper feed

Slowly but surely we've managed to stretch the first sleeping period to 4 or sometimes 5 hours. He still wakes up but at the moment but the key thing is he doesn't need a feed. So I'm hoping that over time he will just not wake up anymore and go for 4 or 5h in one go. Here's me hoping it will happen that way :-)

-Stef

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