7 month old waking all through the night

[booboobunny]

my little angel is almost 7 months and has never slept through the night and for the last 4 months she ahs been a frequent waker and night feeder - she wakes about 6/7 times on an average night. she sleeps in our bed, largely as a result of my laziness. i simply got fed up of getting up every hour. co-sleeping isn't something i'm especialy unhappy with though. i have recently stopped bf and switched to the bottle in a bid to put her off, but even using boiled water rather than formula hasn't reduced the amount she wakes.
obviously i am pretty tired and going back to work this week is a bit of a worry, but do i have a real (potentially long term) problem? when she wakes it's all pretty good natured, she doesn't cry for ages and generally drops off pretty quickly once i've fed her. will she grow out of it on her own or do i need to try and tackle this now?? i'm quite keen not to upset her if i don't need to.....

My DS went through a phase like this at the same age. After a few weeks in bed with me, he went back to his own cot and woke up maybe 3 x a night, which sounds a lot but was a huge improvement on the 6 or 7 times I had previously dealt with. For my DS, it just seemed to be a phase that he grew out of. Hope it is for you too.

You poor thing I really feel for you.
I'd tackle it now if I were you. I know someone whose ds was a lot like your dd, she didn't deal with it and he is now 2.5 and she still gets up to him every night.
Is she really needing the feed or is she comfort sucking. Both of my children were big comfort suckers, so as much as I hate dummies they both ended up with one. My ds got given one by the midwife in SCN when he was 2 days old because all he wanted to do was suck on her finger.
It may not be the best way, because you have to wean them off it later, (which we started last night with 2.5 dd) but you might get some sleep now.
The only other thing I can think of is control crying, but that's very hard to do especially if you're tired and it's the middle of the night. But is definetly worth it in the long run.