I had to LOL at "the Josie plan." So far she's already a verb - last year before she could make it dry through the night but we couldn't get her up to pee, we'd literally carry her to the bathroom and she'd pee in her sleep, so someone on here also said they "Josied" their kid. Now we have "The Josie Plan." This kid is notorious - thank Goodness she doesn't know it!
OK, had to get that out of my system.
When we did the "snack feed," I did it at the point where Josie could barely hold her eyes open any more. So instead of feeding her at the 1-hour mark, I'd be in her room then, play with her till she was patently exhausted, and then feed her. I'd been having so much trouble getting her to GO to sleep before her reflux was diagnosed and treated that frankly I didn't CARE if she fell asleep at the breast - a nap was a nap at that point, KWIM?
Anyway, we phased out the extra feeds one nap at a time after maybe a week. The extra feeds had the effect of boosting my supply so that when I was feeding her she was REALLY getting full feeds and didn't need to wake in the night for extras. We handled most of the 4-5AM stuff with a paci; I'd send DH in to do the dirty work since he didn't smell like milk
and we'd give it maybe 15 minutes and if she still wouldn't settle I'd go ahead and nurse, but that only happened once or twice.
Gotta run, but HTH! Let me know if you have any more Q's!
Oh, yeah, the cluster feeds: I honestly don't remember how we figured it out, but I must have fed her more often since I was in the habit of doing it. I suspect we didn't follow EASY so much toward the end of the day!