Breaking from the Bottle

Okay, looked back at your previous question to find out how old the baby is.....

You said in February he was 9 months old so that means in May or June he'll be 1 year old. He's too young to be off the bottle right now. His nutrition is coming from taking that bottle. He should be drinking about 30 ounces of formula or breastmilk per day right now. SO he needs his bottle.

He's not supposed to be taking a sippy cup. He's supposed to still be taking a bottle. If you take away his bottle too soon he'll start sucking his thumb or fingers because baby's need to suck. It's their nature. It's ingrained in them to suck because it's how they are supposed to eat.

I'd say you need to just wake up and feed him a bottle. A LOT of kids never sleep through the night all the time until they're almost 2. They want a bottle or they want food. They are growing a LOT and need extra nutrition. So you need to provide it.

You have all summer to work with him using a sippy cup along with giving him a bottle. He's not even 1 yet and he cannot stop taking a bottle. He's hungry during the night, it's what baby's do, they wake up and take a bottle, he needs his nutrition.

When we are asleep our brain is at it's peak, working to fight off illness/disease, and it's growing the body, etc....during sleep our bodies use tons of energy. If he isn't getting enough formula/breast milk he's going to wake up. He's using up all the food in his body in just a little while.

Work on making sure he's getting enough formula/breast milk during the day. When he gets to a plateau growth wise he'll sleep through the night for a little while then he'll start working on something, could even be just fighting off a cold, and he'll start waking up every few hours starving again.

If he's waking and taking that much each time then he's hungry or thirsty or both.
Make sure he's eating and drinking enough during the day. He's about a year, right? At this point they still need formula or breast milk as their main source of nutrition, though he should slowly be working on eating more table food.
Feed him what you are eating, just cut or mashed up appropriately.
He could be going through a growth spurt right now as well. Babies will often eat a lot through the night because that's when they do their growing and they need to get the extra calories in during their day.
Offer the sippy cup during the day more and then try it at night, but he may not take it at night.

What is your plan for him getting nutrition if you stop the bottle? He needs to be proficient at other forms of drinking before you stop the bottle. Why are you hurried about this if he is happy with a bottle?

I would not take it away. He is too young. Why the rush? He needs his milk at this age.

My wife bought a hand turned baby food grinder. We fed our kids the food we ate from the table. She would feed more food and less milk for the last meal of the day and it helped our 8 kids sleep through the night much better than when their last meal before bed was just a bottle.

AND by giving them food off the table, you are getting them used to eating what you eat and they will be less picky eaters (if they are picky at all) when they start eating more solid foods. The baby food grinder saves you lots of money because the food you put on your plate is so much cheaper than baby food in a jar.

Good luck to you and yours.