Turtle I thought this might be of interest to you. I found it posted on a different thread.
"DS used to wake and feed back to sleep quite a lot during the night. I always fed him to sleep but I found that if I watched him and detatched him when he was just starting to drift off he would fall asleep without having to suck on me! Sometimes he did wake up right away and look for milk again and I would let him have it and then do the same again. GRadually he started to just feed when we first got into bed and then he would roll off me and go to sleep by himself with me just cuddling/patting him. This meant when he woke during the night I could just pat him or cuddle him and he would fall back asleep by himself without latching on - unless he was genuinely hungry/thirsty. Maybe you can try that? It doesn't involve any crying or a stressed out/worried/upset mummy !"
Here's another one:
"By lou031205 on Fri 02-Jan-09 20:01:07
Papaya, I have one!
When DD was 10 months, I had the same issue. I finally decided that enough was enough.
I chose a day when I felt strong, and stopped night feeds. BUT I have a bedside cot, so I put the cot side down, and every time she looked for comfort by feeding, I made sure the duvet was covering my boobs, and then gave her a big cuddle. I told her she was a big girl now, and that she could do it. At first she cried a little, but she soon realised that she wasn't going to get more than a cuddle. I cuddled her to sleep instead.
6 months on, we have finally got to the stage where she can be put in her cot awake, and she settles herself to sleep.
She has never been left to cry, and she has never had to 'get over it', but by gradually moving from breastfeeding, to cuddling, to holding hands next to her, to holding hands through the bars of the cot (long stage...) to lying on the bed next to the cot but not touching her, we have taught her that she can settle herself to sleep.
The method we used is a bit of a cobbled version of the Dr Jay Gordon method and the No Cry Sleep Solution, with a bit of the baby whisperer thrown in for good measure.
I don't think it is too young at 10 months, IF you are confident that he is not waking because he is hungry - ie. 2 min feeds every 2 hours.
I didn't try sleep training with DD1 until she was 2 because she genuinely seemed to need a cup of milk in the night. She didn't want attention, just milk. When we finally decided to crack down, she had already decided that she didn't need it anyway and had started sleeping through.
With DD2, I knew that she was waking just for the enjoyment of latching on for 2 minutes. So I made changes for my good."