Breastfed babies still waking 1-2 times per night?

Question

I'm back to having newborn level breakdowns bc I'm waking at midnight and 4am. So tired! LO has struggled with weight gain and eating so I feel trapped to continue nursing at night. We try to get him to take bottles of formula during the day but it's a struggle to get him to drink 2oz. I've tried different bottles, different formula, expressed milk, dad feeding him, mom feeding him, etc. He's on reflux medicine but don't really think it's working. I want to sleep so badly, but I also can't bring myself to try CIO or deny him nursing. I guess I just need someone to say it's okay and it'll get better 🙏😭

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It IS okay, and it WILL get better!
Our babies are only little for the blink of an eye, and then they're out of our arms. Sometimes they need Mama allllllll night, but the days are long and the years are short. My first didn't sleep through the night until he was ten months old, and even though I was a sleep-deprived zombie 🧟‍♂️ I wouldn't trade those snuggles for the world. Hang in there! 
- Another mama who got up 2+ times every night this month 😴

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My LO wakes Up 2-3 times at night and only after I feed her,  she falls asleep. Sometimes I am
Scared that I might be doing something wrong as some online article talks of creating bad habits of feeding them to soothe but again, I don’t know so I just continue feeding hoping that this is going to end soon 😭

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I definitely recommend the dream feeding, and when he was just started to sleep 5+ hours a night, I started. I swear it helped, now my LO (6M) sleeps 8-10 hours. I do dream feed still, based on what time he goes to sleep and me. (I don’t feel like it helps much anymore, but I do it when it’s been a long time after he’s eaten and I’m still up) We use the Medela bottles, he also will take the Lansinoh but they’re not his favorite. The last couple nights I’ve also been up at 12, and again at 4 or 5. Usually he’s asleep by 8-9, I will possibly dream feed around 10-12, and he will usually sleep till around 5-6, I feed him and he’ll fall back to sleep for another 1-3 hours. 
I was the momma who followed the newborn rule of feeding every two hours on the dot, and either way LO didn’t start sleeping 4-5 hour stretches till 3-4 months, so I was a zombie. My LO still eats every 2 hours, will only take 5-6 oz bottles no matter how long he goes, but he will go the long stretch at night. Baby will fall into his own routine, and you slowly get used to being sleep deprived, numb 🤣

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I do a dream feed at 11:30pm right before I go to bed. Then my LO will sleep until 6am. I go get her at 6am, change her diaper and then feed her in my bedroom and place her in the pack and play in my room where she falls back asleep until 8am. Almost a month ago I weaned out the 3am feed, took me about a week to wean it out. For a week after I weaned the 3am feed she'd wake up, I put her pacifier in and she'd fall back asleep. Now she just sleeps through 3am. I still question if it's the right thing to do. I EBF so I do worry about if she's getting enough to eat since I really have no idea how many ounces she gets throughout the day. But I tell myself if she was really hungry she'd let me know. This is what works for us.
There's a lot of conflicting info on the internet. I'd go with your gut and any recommendations by your pediatrician. But at the end of the day you have to do what works for you and baby.

Breastfed babies still waking 1-2 times per night?

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