9 Months Old and Wakes up Every Hour!!

S.
My 2 year old was about the same way and then her sleeping finaly got alittle better. she is 2 and a half years old and still has never slapt throught the night. She is also breast feed and yes she still nurses at night and only at night. She still wakes up one time a night and sometimes two times. The doctor keept telling me to feed her more durning the day and I did and nothing changed they keept checking her ears and nothing was wrong. I feel the same way you do that she is addicted to the breast. Just like you I always used to confort her with the breast when something upset her, I have stoped that if she falls I pick her up and kiss and hug her I dont give her the breast even if she is pulling at my shirt and asking for which she does becasue she talks. My best advise to you would be to not use the breast to confort him start with durning the day and he will start to understand that just because he is unhappy he does not need the breast. And when I did that she started sleeping longer at night. She does still wake up one to two times a night but it is a whole lot better then one time an hour.

S.

If he isn't eating all that much each time then I would talk to your doctor. Have his ears checked, and look for teething signs. My now 2 year old has never slept well, and the doctor is now saying his ears may be the problem.

I had the same issue. I spoke to my doctor about it, and she said cause I was feeding her at night when she would stop crying. I stopped nursing her at night, and have been sleeping peaceful ever since.

It sounds like he's not eating enough during his night feedings, just enough to get back to sleep. Yeah, maybe you started it, but you can recover. DO let him get fully upset and crying before you nurse him the first time (you pick this, maybe the first time after YOU have gone to bed.)
Take your time checking his diaper and chatting with him before you begin nursing. He's certainly not starving, you're not hurting him, you're just trying to give him time to wake up and be more alert.

Then nurse him. You'll feel better not keeping it from him. BUT keep him going. Wake him up when he nods off. taking some of his clothes off or changing his diaper will help wake him up. Make sure he nurses fully on both breasts. He DEFINITELY can't do that once an hour. Only let him fall asleep when he has filled his tummy! Then, check his diaper again and make sure he is dry before you put him down. If he wakes up within 2 or three hours, only have daddy go in, change him if necessary and put him down.

There's no way he can fully fill up his tummy if he is nursing once an hour. I would try the feeding adjustment first.

Also, check out babycenter.com, they have great advice on stuff like this.

side note: unless you do an online school, maybe you want to wait until he is weaned to go back to school?