Two hours broken sleep

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Hi all,
My son is 14 months, breastfed and at the moment co-sleeping. My partner has been away this week and I'm just absolutely wrecked. Two nights with basically 2 hours broken sleep. Struggle to get him down. Once he's asleep I have a couple of hours for work/housework/getting our stuff ready for the morning, and then the past two nights he's woken up at about half 11 and not settled ALL night. He wants to breastfeed all night but won't settle after at all. I've steered away from cold turkey weaning or any of the more strict sleep training as he was born with club feet and has to sleep with boots and a metal brace on so I have always felt whatever comfort I can give him bf and co sleeping I should.
But I'm at the end of my tether, work are losing patience with my teary tired self just about functioning and yesterday I had to go home half way through the day because I was so shattered I could barely speak.
Partner is home tonight and he will try to help but he works shifts (unpredictable) and the fact he's still breastfeeding means it mostly falls to me...

Lots of people have suggested that my still bf-ing and co sleeping is more for me than him... that he needs his own room and no night feeds. Are they right?
I don't want to night wean and then be stuck with a still waking baby that I can't comfort?
Any ideas or advice/experiences?

Normally I recommend sleeptraining but I can quite understand why you would want to give him all the comfort you can. Can you forget the housework for a few days and just grab a sandwich and go straight to bed as soon as he’s down?

You could try to wean him off the breast during the night... would he take a cup of cows milk? I’m just thinking then your husband could help more at night.

I have every sympathy, my 15 month old has just gone through the same. It's torture!

I agree with PP, sod the housework for a few days and go straight to bed as soon as he is down. Lie in at the weekend if you can as well while DP gets up with him. We take cows milk and water up to bed so when he stirs, DP offers milk or water, then if DS insists he can have cuddles and breast milk. It does sometimes work but not all the time.

Co-sleeping was the only way I got any sleep at all, and he normally sleeps in his own bed.

No explanation for it, but DS did a 5 hour stretch last night for the first time in about 3 weeks so it was (hopefully!) short lived.