Reverse cycling

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I've posted here about this before, but it has got worse. My son is 7 months old and only eats at night time. He does not drink any milk at all all day long from 8.00 am to 5.00 pm when I get home from work. We are doing BLW so he 'eats' some veg, and has water etc, but this is mostly chewing at this stage.

He is up every 45 minutes in the night to breastfeed. I'm so tired, I feel I might die. I want to give up bf even though I love it. I get really angry and resentful in the middle of the night and I hate myself for it.

I am finishing work in a few weeks and want to reverse this dreadful habit, but how? Any ideas?

all i can think of is just as he stirs fo a smaler feed pop in dummy. might have to hold if not use to it. Over a couple of nights it might reduce his feeding frequency at least. and/or wake him up properly before some feeds so he feeds for longer. Don't know how to switch to day feeding though. feed him more solids?

DD was like this. At 10 months I cracked and switched to a bottle for her last feed before bed and it made a huge difference, she slept through the first couple of nights (blessed relief!) then only woke up once or twice thereafter when she learnt to digest it better. I wished I done it sooner, even though I am a big BF fan. Still BFing her morning feed now at 20 months so this wasn't the end.

Thanks for those responses. The problem is he will not take a bottle/dummy etc any more. I am here feeding him now and feeling so hopeless. I am starting to feel angry with him, but I know it's my fault. He is always tired all day long, why won't he eat then and sleep now?!

Can your other half try to settle without feeding? Ds smelt me and my milk at 50 paces. And when i went in that was all he wanted. By DS going in, we managed to lessen the amount of wake ups- it took a week or two- so he did then have a more meaningful feed or few, rather than a quick snack.
Could never get the hang of co sleeping- couldn't sleep!! But could that be a possibility?
Re BLW- we did end up with a combo strategy with some assisted eating of stodgier things like rice pudding porridge semolina pudding, to fill his tum a bit. And you are giving him milk that way too? Hugs... It is bloody wearing.

Sorry DH went in- sleepless not helping typing!