Ds2 is just 5 months old & had finally at long last been getting better at this sleeping/night feeding malarkey whereby he would go from between 8.30 - 10pm to 3 - 4am be fed,put back in cot wake at 5.30 - 6ish & then come into bed with me to be fed ad ds1 wakes up anytime from 6am onwards so just made more sense to feed lying down & maximise rest while I can. Until last Friday that is when I had my first night out since he arrived. I did the last feed as usual & although not in a deep sleep was in a light sleep & dh was happy to take over & cuddle & soothe. I was only gone for 2.5hrs (wild I know!) but in that time ds had woken 3 times. Dh, who is very good with the boys, said it wasn't with hunger but needing cuddles & as if he knew I wasn't there so was unsettled. He woke soon after I got home so I fed him (for an hour which was that lovely sleepy sucking comfort thing they do) put him down but an hour later he was thrashing about in his cot,eyes still closed but not a happy puppy. To cut a long story short he spent literally the whole night latched on with me feeding lying down in an attempt to get some rest myself, almost like he was thinking if I'm constantly attached to you, you can't leave me.
Since then we've had a couple more nights like this with him, thrashing around,not happy but not hungry, can be soothed sometimes by a cuddle from dh but has invariably ended cuddled up next to me being fed & when not being fed cuddling up to & using my boob as a pillow on which to rest his chubby cheek.
Has anyone else experienced this? Should I be concerned by it, not letting him use me quite so much for comfort ,I'm happy to & love our bf relationship but am worried about him becoming dependent on this to sleep? Any thoughts as to why the change in sleep pattern/sudden need for constant boob?
Sorry for the waffle & rambling, & thanks in advance for any help.