How was the rest of the night? You don't have to night wean to do CIO. You can decide how often you think your baby is actually hungry vs comfort nursing (which is hard to tell sometimes) and decide to feed after X hours at at X time(s) in the night. And then do CIO for the in between wake ups. I'm not explaining it very well, but that's the recommendation at troublesome tots ( slightly different than Ferber maybe).
Well I really failed because I ended up bring him in bed with me for the next stretch! But I did put him in his bed for the rest of the night/all morning and he did okay.
He's FF but sometimes he only drinks 1-2 oz (normal is 4) so I still think it's comfort. I was planning on keeping 1 feeding but this horrible wake up started at 1050 so that's pretty early still maybe tonight I will try a dream feed at 10 and see if that helps.
After I finally fed him at 1230 he slept until 430 (although with me) then I fed again and he stayed in his bed until 810 with one little wake up at 6 that I kind of helped him back to sleep.
I'm sorry I am rambling!!!!
I think my plan for now is: still do CIO for going to bed (he's handling that okay), dream feed at 10, then try to work on slowly pushing the next bottle to like 4 or something. Also not responding until he is actually crying to give him a chance to work it out.