How to Get My 7 Month Old Son to Sleep Through the Night

You've created this by giving him all these night bottles. He's not a newborn, and even if he were, he wouldn't need 5 bottles a night.

You have to start lessening his night feedings. The first 3 nights, give him one less bottle a night. Instead, put that bottle in the daytime. The next 3 nights, drop him to 2 bottles a night. In the coming week, pull him down to 1 bottle a night.

It's really important that you do this. Even if he cries a lot at first, he will get used to it.

Five bottles during the night would lead to a lot of waking from wet diapers I suspect.
If you can try to reverse it gradually so that he's getting more food/milk during day, that should help. Especially topping him up with good feed in evening before bed.
Is he definitely hungry when he wakes up or is he waking with wet diaper and you're feeding him to get him to go back to sleep? I would just look at other ways to get him to go back if you can. Soothing back rub till they are ready to drift off, then leave quietly, that kind of thing. Also, just be sure you don't time food feeds around milk feeds. Mine would quickly fill up on one or the other if I didn't time their meals right, so I tended to do milk separately than breakfast, etc. Good luck :)

Talk to your pediatrician. No doctor I ever heard of wants a baby having 5 bottles at night. It sounds like you are feeding him because you don't know what else to do, and he's using the bottle as a comfort measure rather than for food. A 7 month old does not need to eat at all during the night, assuming there are no major medical problems, and he absolutely needs the sleep. I cannot believe that the adults in your house are losing that much sleep as well - there is serious sleep deprivation going on and none of you should be doing anything dangerous like driving a car or operating power equipment.

Your child is not eating during the day because he's eating all night long.

He needs to learn to calm down and fall back asleep. Sometimes the time change affects kids, sometimes they are teething and a bit uncomfortable, but they do not need a bottle. In fact, if they start to get teeth, the bottle is terrible for them at night because the formula or milk pools in their mouths and starts tooth decay even in the young years. So stop that immediately.

If you don't know how to calm your baby, go to the library and get a book on Dr. Ferber's method. I got my 6 month old to sleep through the night by doing that, and it took just 3 nights - and it's what the pediatrician recommended. There are other ways, but the absolute worst thing to do is to give a bottle at night at this age. He will not starve, and he will make up for it during the day by eating more. And you will all be happier.

And you don't want to have a toddler or elementary school aged child who reaches for food every time he is upset or cranky. That's a horrible existence of food dependency.

Please have a good chat with your pediatrician immediately if you don't think you can do this on your own.

Try less (or no) baby food and more bottles during the day.
Solid food doesn't actually help them sleep longer but it might contribute to gas that could wake them up.
Round about 6 or so months is a major growth spurt time so yeah, they eat more just before and during that spurt.
He's getting ready for sitting on his own (uses more muscles), teething, etc.
Sleeping better will come sooner or later but you need to be patient.
A better strategy would be to get a sitter every so often so they can watch the baby while YOU catch up on sleep or you and dad tag team night attending (you do one night, he does next night) so you each get a good nights sleep every other night.
You'll get through this - but it's going to take awhile.

It's normal for a 7 month old to still wake at night, even to wake and have a feeding, but not to wake five times and have 5 bottles. Just because he wakes does not mean he needs to be fed. I suspect you've been using the bottles as a soothing method and now he's used to eating at night instead of during the day. You need to flip that around. Start cutting back at night, dropping bottles one at a time over several nights. You will need to sooth him back to sleep by other methods. It's probably going to be very hard on you, but you'll get though it. He will start eating more in the daytime once he has been weaned off of multiple night feedings.

He's probably about to have a growth spurt. Most babies go through stages where they are starving and eat and eat and eat. It will pass.

This is a circular problem. He's not sleeping because he needs to eat because he didn't eat enough during the day because he had 5 bottles in the night!
At 7 months, baby food is only for him to learn to manage food in his mouth and develop a taste for healthy foods like veggies. Instead of offering him baby food as a replacement meal, could you try offering the baby food after a bottle so he's getting the nutrition he needs at that feeding?
Waking 5 times a night happens. Consider offering him less than a full bottle when he wakes. He shouldn't be hungry if he's getting enough during the day (especially since he's bottle fed) and if he's drinking less he won't be soaking his diapers over and over all night long.
Good luck.

Baby food has no real nutrition in it. He may be filling up on the baby food, so he's not hungry for his bottles. But then starving at night because the baby food has no nutrition. I would cut back on the baby food, and try to get more bottles into him during the day.

Try feeding him more bottles during the day and helping him comfort back to sleep at night without food.