6.5m Waking every hour overnight

This is my second child, my first child was a CHAMPION sleeper. Still is, at 4.5 yo.

This second kid???? Is the balancing act to my first, for sure. For the last several nights he’s woken up every 30mins to an hour until 2am when he magically decides to sleep for 4-5 hours?? He also really likes the vacuum as a sound machine when he’s in a sleepless mood but that terrifies me overnight.

His schedule is a little weird because he really struggles staying up longer than 2 hours. His wake up is 6am or 6:30. Then it’s 1.5/1.75 or 2/2/2 and that’s on his BEST napping day. But his naps usually go 1/2/.5. Then it’s bedtime around 7:30-8. His bedtime routine is dinner/bath/lotion and pj’s/rocking and feeding. We feed to sleep. And I know from this sub that that is likely the crux of my issue BUT I raise you this…. HOW THE HECK DO I STOP DOING THAT??😭😭 I’ve tried with his naps, but he just won’t eat the whole wake window and then I know he’s hungry. We’ve skipped bottle altogether to get him to sleep without it once, he woke up 30 mins later, wanting a bottle and fell asleep on the bottle.

I’m sure it’s because I’ve not had these issues before, but I’m at my wits end with this stuff and I just want to sleep again 😭

TLDR: my kid can’t stay awake longer than 2 hours, struggles sleeping the first half of the night, and I don’t know how to stop feeding him to sleep when that’s the only time he’ll take his bottle. Oh and also, help 😭😭