Hello Loriwil!
Congrats on your almost arrived baby!!!!
Ok... let' see:
1- when Paul was born i didn't do a schedule per se, only tried to keep to the order of things. ex: never feed to sleep, if he fell asleep during a feeding I would change his nappy so he woke, and then if he wanted to sleep again i just left him, and i didn't wake him from his naps. Didn't rock him or walked him to sleep either. But he usually woke hungry after 3 hrs or so. i didn't do the cluster feeding until about 3 weeks, and that's when i started with the schedule, because i knew he was usually hungry after 3 hrs, it was something like this:
7:30 feed
8:00 activity
8:30 sleep
10:30 feed
11:00 activity
11:30 sleep
1:30 feed
2:00 activity
2:30 sleep
4:30 feed
5:00 activity
5:30 sleep
6:30 cluster feed
7:00 bath
7:30 bedtime
8:30 cluster feed
11 Dream feed
then he woke up at 1 or 2 am for a feed (didn't talked to him and kept the lights extremely low)
then he woke up again at 4 or 5 am to feed again (didn't talked to him either)
2- so i guess i started cluster feeding him at 3 weeks and also doing the DF, wich only started working when he was like 2 months old, and then he didn't wake for a feed until 4 or 5 am.
3- i did cut the cluster feed at 8 weeks... just because the Tracy said so... so i dont hava any other reason to do it... MMmmmmhhh.
4- Paul is formula fed, allways have been so i got no answer to that...
5- i allways gave him a DF, but at the beginning it was just part of him acctually being hungry every 3 hrs, and it fitted right on his appetite. Then i just waited until the clock turned 11:oo pm and gave him a bottle without waking him up, and now i just give it to him in his crib asleep and i dont even burp him.
I hope this helps, any questions, feel free to contact me!!!
Good luck!!!!