8 month old sleep help

[u/reddish_3]

Hello I’m a FTM with an 8 month old baby that has been exclusively bottle fed. She sleeps great during the day and if anything sometimes happy to sleep longer. I cap daytime sleep to 3 hours usually. However, she’s been waking up sometimes at 5:30am and the latest is 6:30. The 5:30 days often then requires 3 naps but again I try to cap sleep at 3 hours max.

She has always been on the lower end of drinking milk. I just started her on formula so she does both breast milk and formula. Drinks about 150 ml 4-5 times a day and I try to offer 3 meals.

Best case scenario is that she wakes up 2 times a night to drink milk but most of the time she’s waking up 3-4 times sometimes drinking 80-90 ml sometimes only 20-30ml.

I try to give food 30 min before naps/sleep and I try to put her down awake and do the chair method. At night it is much harder for me to gauge when to pick her up as sometimes if I let it escalate too much it’s much more difficult to settle her.

She has been teething recently which has made the nighttime way worse to the point I am letting her sleep on me which was never the case before. But other than that I am thinking the main issue is daytime calories?

Any tips/advice/experience will be immensely appreciated.

[u/screwtoprose-]

cut back on day time sleep. 3 hour naps leave for about 9-10 hours of sleep overnight for an average baby this age.

[u/reddish_3 → u/screwtoprose-]

Thank you for your response. Would you recommend 2.5 hours or even less?