Boob cures everything... and that is the problem

I'm not sure I am hearing the issue... she sure sounds like every other baby I know! So, buck up and enjoy your nursing time while it lasts! :

thats what babies do. I have not gone more then an hour and a half at night without ds wanting to nurse, and he has fallen asleep without the boob maybe two times. I love the magic boobies : sometimes it gets old but then I think about what I would have to do if I didn't have them.

Well, ds is almost 11 months and he does the same thing. One teething spell sort of runs into the other... it is just easier to nurse them back to sleep... As pp said, it's just what they do. I know that's probably not what you want to hear though

Side laying helps some, but I still hurt really badly. At about 8 months I gave up and gave DS a binky. :He took to is great, except now he has to have it in his mouth all night instead. We still wake up a lot, but my back doesn't kill me anymore.

You have my sympathies. My own daughter was similar waking every 1-2 hours during the night up until about 7 or 8 months, she also only wanted to nurse and wouldn't settle any other way.
I would second the mama who suggested a binky (sorry, we call it dummy where I come from, which is probably a very off putting word come to think of it!!) I tried the pantley pull-off method ( if I named it correctly) gently removing my nipple when she was just suckling and settling into sleep and sometimes gave her my little finger and she seemed to tolerate it better when I removed my little finger than when I removed my nipple. At around 7 months she took to having a binky so she could settle down to sleep even when I took the nipple away. Now if she wakes in the night crying I can give her the binky and she doesn't even get to being properly awake. She does still wake in the night (she's 13 months) but not frequently and sometimes I nurse her back to sleep if she is unsettled but she does sleep through some nights.
I know some people don't like binkies but I found it very useful particularly for settling and sleeping at night.

Oh, I just realized that you posted that your DC is in a sidecar crib....I would definitely try putting your babe in the bed with you. It's much easier IMO. In the morning I don't even really remember waking up to nurse or change his diaper, because he's right next to me and it only takes a sec to open my shirt and put a diaper on him. HTH.

My ds will be 1yr old next month and he still wants to nurse 1-2 times at night. Sometimes more when he's teething or not feeling well, I would suggest co-sleeping in the same bed, he's right there and sometimes I can't remember even waking up to nurse him, but obviously I have because my shirts wide open. I also agree with some of the other mommas, don't look at it like a burden it's more of a sweet blessing that goes by much too fast.