advice please

[metaphortunate]

The past week or two, the Junebug has been waking up four to six times a night wanting to nurse. I have been reluctant to move him into his own room because:
- at that point I will nightwean him
- he's pretty clearly reverse cycled, so if I stop nursing him at night, he will eat much more during the day
- what I can pump is already only barely keeping up with demand
- so at that point he will go on maybe half formula?

And not that that would be the end of the world, but I figured that to keep him on the boob I was willing to be woken up twice a night, which was what he was doing for the longest time. But five times a night - no. This cannot go on, he's 7 months old and I am getting less sleep than I did when he was a newborn, he is no longer cute between the hours of midnight and 7 am and that is VERY DANGEROUS TO HIS HEALTH.

Thoughts? Preferred sleep training techniques? How did you nightwean?

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[lovepeaceohana]

I wish I had advice. Instead, I am typing this from my couch next to KK, who is 18 months old and has decided that bedtime is whenever he damn well falls asleep, thanks. Normally that is prior to this time! Normally that is about 8pm! But tonight it isn't. And he still wakes at least once a night to take a bottle, or to at least beg halfheartedly for one.

I will say that, as anecdotal evidence only, Lulu did go through a phase like this at about the same age. It was a growth spurt that he grew out of, fortunately, although he did continue to nurse at night until he was 12 months old, and then after that he still took a bottle in the middle of the night until he was about 18 months.

[metaphortunate]

Nooooooo...