I've 3 young kids including a 1 year old who is still breastfeed and whom I breastfeed to sleep as I was too knackered to try anything else.
She wakes up looking breastfed at LEAST 4 times a night. That would be a good night. I get the sleep association and know why she does it but I was always too tired to follow through with the alternatives. She has woken even hour, every 2 hours, every 20 minutes or any other combination of frequent wakings.
In order to get a marginal bit more sleep, now I just co-sleep but now she wants to be latched onto me all night long. When I unlatch her, she wakes angrily and cries until I latch her back on. I'm just too tired to do anything else at the minute. We have agreed to night wean her when we have a good opportunity but in the meantime, I'm exhausted.
I've gone back to work and am struggling. Tonight i just feel like running away, because she will not go to sleep..she is always in some kind of state of awareness, ready to wake at the slightest sound or touch. I'm dreading bedtimes and feel very overwhelmed.