11 month old not sleeping: gentle suggestions?

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DS has only ever slept longer than a 4-hour-stretch three times in his life. Normally he goes to bed around 8.30-9, wakes around 10.30, feeds, sleeps until around 2am and from then on he wakes every 1.30 hours or every 45 mins on a bad night. The only way to get him back to sleep is to feed him. He used to be able to go back to sleep on his own, but no longer. I am shattered. We co-sleep from the 2am feed as I cannot reliably put him back in the cot without waking him. I love co-sleeping and so does DH but we wonder whether it is adversely affecting DS's sleep in this case. Also, I am planning to breastfeed until 2 at least, but am wondering whether night-weaning, which might help his sleep, could adversely affect supply during the day (he tends to have 3-4 feeds on weekdays and 7-8 at weekends).

Any gentle suggestions gratefully received.

I am no expert, but very much doubt night weaning could effect your supply at this stage. My 11 month old now more or less sleeps through 7-6, and I am still freely able to demand feed when I am with her in the day, so maybe 7-8 times a day at weekends.

As for the sleeping, my dd was a crap sleeper but got loads better when moved to her own room. Also making the room warmer helped. I've never done any kind of cc, or night-weaning, or shush-pat or anything, nothing wrong with them but they are just not me. So I took no action, she just started dropping night feeds of her own accord, and suddenly brought her own bedtime forward from 8.30 to 7. So it may just click. Good luck!

Thank you. We are not sure about changing rooms as sharing with his 3-year-old brother would have its Ian challenges but could try separate rooms over Easter...