Help! 7/8 month old breastfed 10-12 times p/d D:

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Please help!
My baby is eating every ~1,5/2/2,5 hrs' D:
Since her birth I did honestly try to get her into the routine, we tried 4 different formulas but she wants only my milk.
I started adding solids but with teething sometimes she wants even every hr'.
God, help me.
Please, any piece of advice is welcome or share your experience how did you manage to get your baby to eat ~7 times a day and ideally with sleep through the night?
I've not been sleeping properly (max' 3 hrs' in row....) since her birth 😭😭😭(as I'm breastfeeding EVERY ~ 2 hrs, so it's at ~1 am, 3am, 5am and so on...... sometimes it's more than an hr! D: ).
Thank you.

I'm so sorry that you're going through this, I can completely empathise.

My daughter was a snacker- eating hourly from birth. The only thing that helped was either giving her a bottle with a couple of ounces after a bf or just completely replace feeds with bottles of expressed milk. Most of the time now I just feed her in the morning and before bed and pump during the day. She takes a 7 ounce bottle and doesn't ask for more milk for 3/4 hours, longer if she's had a decent amount of solids in between.

My baby is one. Still feeds 8x a day. I feed back to sleep too but recently my husband has managed to get her back to sleep with cuddles and rocking for every other wake up so I'm not doing them every 2 hours every night as after a year I was shattered. Is that an option? Night weaning a breastfed baby is recommended from 18 months by IBCLCs.

Unless in a leap, your baby isn't waking for milk if that makes sense. Your baby is asking for milk to get the comfort from you to fall back to sleep. People like Kathryn Stagg and Lyndsey Hookway have great advice about habit stacking and also normal expectations for the first year.

When I was pregnant I was told to expect to be absolutely shattered for a year and not get more than a couple of hours sleep at a time. It was bang on.

Thank You, @Porridgeaddiction, @Flittingaboutagain for so kind good ideas and suggestions! Sending you both 💖

I tried pumping a few times but unfortunately it's not for me: my breast (even after just a few mins' of pumping) goes into some crazy mode and overproducing milk (like for 'the whole nation' D: ). And to make it worse, nothing helps after (bought cooling/heating/relief-stuff – nothing); only my baby can solve the problem. I even feel guilty: once I had to wake her up, so she would help mommy with the stone-hard boiling-hot breast.

Yes, my husband also managed to get her back to sleep like this. Once. Well, we'll keep trying at night. Thank you!

And, yes, it does feel like she wants "to get the comfort from you to fall back to sleep" as she is fed for ~20 mins' at night and very rarely more.

All is noted. Thank you! 🤗