Needing some reassurance...(sorry kind of long)

[aussienic]

I went thru a similar thing with Jacob. now 16 months. He went from normal feeding to waking at night ect ect almost exactly what you described. Now he feeds between 3-5 times a day. Mainly just at sleep times and when he first wakes up and eats throughout the day.

To stop the night waking I simply refused to give Jacob boobie and within 2 nights he stopped waking in the night and now sleeps 11-12 hours. He did get a little upset but not so bad that he would wake his brothers so it was bearable.. but if you are happy with night waking then just keep doing what you are doing.. If everyine is happy thenits ok. If James is happy and content still then let him sort himself out. They get there eventually

[anney]

My DD started waking about twice a night at that age too. don't really know why but b/feeding put her back to sleep quickly so that is what we did. It probably lasted about 2 months but I can't remember noticing she was any less hungry during the day.
by the way, DD is 4 and still sleeps in our room. there are only 3 of us in the house and we don't see why 2 of us should be in one room and the other in a room on her own so we sleep together. Now if there were 4 of us it would probably be a different situation.