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?

Comments

[metaphortunate]

Thanks. :/ Trading off time is keeping everybody alive, for now...

[thefourthvine]

We did that a LOT. Every growth spurt, and for all the time that the earthling was still relying on breastmilk when he really needed solids (like, after he turned one, his diet was still 90% milk because of his food aversion, so he nursed all the time), BB and I switched off every night. I still remember the awesome feeling of, okay, now is UNINTERRUPTED SLEEP TIME when I fed him for the last time at three in the morning and made the official handoff to BB.

Yay for everyone being alive! And, I hope, mostly sane!