7 month old feeding 2 hourly at night- help please!

[shazzi]

I have had similar frustrations with my almost 11 month old. We have always fed to sleep too. I think Kmn's suggestion of trying to get DS to sleep during the day is good without the boob, but I never get around to it..

For the last few months my DD has been wanting to feed overnight every 2-3 hours. Rarely do I get a 4 hour gap anymore. I am going to buy No Cry Sleep Solution but decided to try something in the meantime. For the last two nights I have not fed her if she wakes before 3 hours. We co-sleep so I just hold her and pat her and talk softly. She has cried, but more of a whinge cry and been thrashing around. But I noticed that it was not a real cry or a hungry cry and three times now over the last two nights I have been able to get her back to sleep without a feed within 20 minutes. I am hoping that it will translate into her waking less after we do it a few more nights. So last night she down at 8pm with a feed, woke and patted down at 10pm, woke and fed at 1.15am, woke and patted down again at 3am, then up at 5.30am for a feed. She then slept until 8am. Fantastic for me and so will keep trying that at night. It took me a while to get the confidence to just pat and cuddle, I thought I was so awful to let her cry, but she is responding well and if it became a big distressed cry I will immediately feed her.

Hope others have some more idea's for you too and you get more sleep soon.