Hi Nox. I was in the same boat until very recently... DS was waking every couple of hours though the night and I was BF him back to sleep. However, I came to the conclusion that he wasn't going to outgrow it himself and so I have been working hard to get him to a point where he can self settle without needing to be fed back to sleep all night.
This is what I did:
Step 1: I fed him to sleep initially, but when he woke I would pat and delay feeding. I wouldn't let him feed to sleep. When he attached I would move to an angle so that it was hard for him to stay on the boob. He would fall off and whinge and reattach, but after a few attempts he would give up and go to sleep. After a few days he got to a point where he would feed for a few seconds before rolling away and going back to sleep by himself.
Step 2: When he woke up, I refused to BF him back to sleep at all - I would offer patting and shushing and if he still needed something I would give him a bottle of rice milk (apparently sweeter like breastmilk). Much to my surprise, he took the bottle and went to sleep. He wasn't entirely happy about it and whinged a bit (no crying though), I spent up to an hour patting/shushing/offering bottle instead until he got back to sleep himself.
So far this has taken two weeks and we are now at a point where he doesn't expect a BF during the night. The past few nights he has not even woken for it - last night he slept from 9pm-5am, he stirred a couple of times and I was able to shush him back to sleep.
I think it is definitely a prioity to break the feed to sleep association, after that he should start sleeping for longer periods.
Good luck, I know how frustrating it can be
