We are going through the same thing here, 8 months old and trouble with the co-sleeping. For me it has been going on since about 5/6 months when a combination of teething and then a trip away seemed to throw DD's sleeping patterns out of whack and led her to begin to associate sleeping with my boob. I posted about it and got some good advice (https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...leep-help.html), however, I have not managed to completely solve the problem yet.

It is hell though, the waking every hour or two. At worst we were waking every 30 min here where DD would rouse from sleep and cry for the boob only to fall asleep again without really feeding just comfort sucking, then rouse again within the hour>

My advice is you either have to just roll with it if you can and hope that they will grow out of it (has anyone found that has worked for them??) or try to help your DS learn better sleeping habits, ie find a way to self settle back to sleep.

We decided to go for the latter as my DH and I were at our wits end with no sleep and based on the fact that they shouldn't need a night feed after 5 months (apparently!). Unfortunately for us that meant she is now out of our bed as she finds the smell of me and my proximity too upsetting if she can't have access. It is getting better, after a horrible few nights we are now down to 2 feeds a night. So now we now settling her to sleep in her hammock, getting up to feed once during the night and then co-sleeping from the second feed of the night in the early hours. I can't completely let go of co-sleeping!

So I basically had to succumb to my own version of comfort crying... It didn't appear too traumatic for her and we feel more human again.

HTH