Cry it out A FAIL

Baby has an ear infection 🙁 . Poor little guy, he was so miserable all day and his fever just kept coming back.  After a couple rounds of antibiotics I’m hoping he starts to feel better but we shall see. 
Of course this also means that he won’t be eating very well because apparently it hurts to suck when you have an ear infection which means he will most certainly continue to wake up in the middle of the night and I will feed him because so far in the last 24 hour he has probably only taken in 15 ounces of fluids so there is no way I’m going to not feed him when he wakes up.
And the cycle continues …  I suppose I should take solace in the fact that he most likely won’t wake up in the middle of the night when he is 5 so I should get some sleep by then.
I feel frustrated and like a failure because I know now that this will continue on for who knows how long. 
Once he’s feeling better next week or so I will try again to not feed him or to feed him a smaller amount than he wants with the hope that he will just give it up. 
I don’t necessarily see that happening but I will do my best, which I guess is all I can do at this point.  I’ll sleep when I’m dead right?