Milk not filling my 12 month old up?

My LO recently turned 1 and since he has been waking up early crying belly rumbling so we have been giving him an extra bottle as he seems hungry. Before we switched from formula he had a good routine and slept through the night and was on 3 bottles. We are now having to give him an extra bottle as it’s the only way he goes to sleep no matter how long we try to help him sleep(3/4am). We have tried increasing adding a snack during the day as he didn’t before. Any advice? Is it just me that feels this way? Should I have not done a straight switch and gradually done it instead?

I’ve considered the possibility of sleep regression but it feels too coincidental timing wise.

For reference his routine is 7:30am wake up and bottle, 9:30/10am breakfast 12/12:30pm lunch
Nap for 1hr 30mins then 3:00pm bottle and snack.
5/5:30 dinner + pudding
8:30 bedtime with bottle.

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Add breakfast as children this age should be eating three meals a day and snack see how it goes sometimes the bottle at night can be a comfort kind of thing either add an extra meal (breakfast) or stop giving milk in bed offer milk in a cup (with straw) before bed brush teeth then in bed 😃

Is he not eating an actual breakfast? Just two bottles before lunch?

We're on 3 full meals+ 2 snacks throughout the day to meet our son's caloric needs. It seems like he might not be getting enough during the day to keep him full overnight- if he's in a calorie deficit for most of the morning then it's going to carry over into the night.

milk is a drink and formula is a meal with calories so that’s why he would have been “full”

Breakfast????

Our LO is 8 months on Friday and has the following

6:30 bottle
8 b/fast

9:30 nap

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1pm small lunch

3pm nap

4pm dinner and fruit

5:30m bottle

7:30pm bottle and bed

I was supposed to say breakfast not two bottles 🙈 he has breakfast at 10am

have you tried maybe implementing like a supper sort of meal between dinner and a bedtime bottle?? my son is a bit older now but when he started getting like that, sometimes he just needed an extra solid food to help before bed x

Since I started introducing two snacks a day along with three meals I no longer have to feed my LO during the night, I trialled dropping a feed the other day and she ended up needing a feed during the night so I’ve gone back to giving her normal bottles along with the meals.

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