So this is my second EBF baby, you'd think I would know what I was doing by now 😂. But my boy is almost 6 months and since the age of 2 months he hasn't been able to sleep longer than an hour at a time. And I'm not exaggerating. Every nap and during the night, he wakes after 40-60 minutes and has down this for nearly 4 months now. He is quite good at going down in his crib drowsy and then settling himself to sleep, not always but quite often. Then during the night my husband deals with the first wake up. He can often be rocked back to sleep or sometimes just a shh and bum tap, this only works for husband it doesn't work when I do it, I guess it's because he knows I've got the boobies! Sometimes that doesn't work for husband either and baby screams bloody murder until I come along. Then after that (from about 8 or 9pm onwards) I co sleep with baby and he wakes every hour or less and suckles back to sleep. It's been almost 4 months of this now. I have a toddler too (who is also going through a phase of waking in the night which is why I don't let husband do any more wake ups with baby because he ends up being up with the toddler) and I just feel like I cannot cope with this terrible sleep any longer. My body feels exhausted, I ache all the time, have a constant headache, I'm irritable and snappy, I'm eating like crap and putting on weight, and if I'm honest I'm probably a bit depressed. Everyone tells me to put him on a bottle but I don't see how that will help when he wakes looking for comfort every hour. He has started taking breast milk from a bottle but will only drink about 2 to 3oz at a time which I thought doesn't seem like much. I keep trying him with a dummy and he pulls a mega disgusted face every time. I will persevere with keeping trying though. He definitely has a strong suckling need and I just can't cope with being his dummy any more. My first born was very similar and always wanted to boob to sleep but he was sleeping 3 hours plus stretches by this age. Has anyone been in a similar situation and did you manage to find anything that helped? I understand it's totally normal and a comfort for him and I don't want to take it away from him but at the same time, I physically and mentally can't cope with the hourly wake ups anymore. I just want him to do longer stretches, I'm not expecting him to sleep through or anything. When I tell family members I think they think I'm exaggerating and don't really understand that I truly haven't slept for longer than 1 hour at a time in almost 4 months and what that can do to a person!