Breastfeeding all night long

[Christelle2207]

I am mostly co-sleeping with 14w ds. To start with he was doing pretty well at night, waking twice-ish and doing 4-5h stretches. However he's been waking more and more frequently and it has now got the point that he wakes almost hourly and seems to want to suck on my boob all night long. Most of the time I doubt he's properly hungry. I have tried various dummies and he's not interested. As well as being exhausted my nipples are now getting really sore. I'm actually thinking of going cold turkey and insisting on formula at night (he has formula in the evening anyway due to supply issues) to see if he can sleep better. However it's very difficult to cuddle/rock him as he just wants to latch back on.
Help!

Hi op, that sounds really tough, you must be exhausted. My ds was an epic feeder too.
I don't have any specific advice that might help, but do you have the wonder weeks app? It shows when babies are going through developmental leaps/growth spurts. I wonder if that's what your ds is doing, as an increase in feeding and poorer sleep are very common signs of that.
I found the app to be v useful throughout the whole first year (ds is now 16months) as just when things were reaching breaking point I could check the calendar, see it was a leap, read a bit about what my son was experiencing and developing, and also see how long it was likely to last

Thanks for that, have got the wonderweeks just now and it seems useful but I don't think his current habits are down to anything specific other than habit as he has got clingier gradually. I think I may have to sleep in a spare room and let DH deal witg him for one night with a bottle and hope for the best, although he'll hate it

Your little one sounds exactly like my DD except she is 1 year old, she wakes every couple of hours, and uses me as a dummy. Not much help or advice just wanted to show some support. My DS1 was the same but managed to get him in to a dummy at 10 months! X

Do you think it's worth persevering with the dummy then? My first dc refused it too, not sure what I'm doing wrong!