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[quote=Anonymous]We roughly followed ideas from this book.

We always did a bed time routine, same thing, every night (blinds closed, lights low, lullabye music on, change in to pj's and sleep sack, breastfeed, supplement with bottle, burping, story time, lights off, rocking for 10 minutes).

We also slowly shifted to 4 hours between feedings around 8 weeks old (was at 3 hours previously).  That said, if it was clear she was hungry, we would only try to hold her off for 10-15 minutes (distract with a toy, or go outside, or play in the swing), and if that didn't work, she would eat earlier.

She then just fell in to this pattern of about 6 oz. every 4 hours, again around 8 weeks old.  And then she would sleep about 8-9 hours through the night.  Then a few weeks later, she would sleep 8-10 hours (and we upped the first bottles to 8 oz.).

It worked out for us, but I do think we have a sleepy baby.  I never got the nap part right though.  She just naps when she wants - usually about 1.5 hrs after the end of a feeding.  She would also nap in between the 3rd and 4th feeding, but still sleep through the night.[/quote]

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