Hi all. I feel like a routine for my 7.5 week old dd is finally coming together, thanks in part to some of the advice I've gotten here! A later bedtime is working much better for us--last night she slept from 8:30 p.m. -2:30 a.m. for the second time!!
We've been on EASY since day one and dd is very used to having awake time after eating during the day. ALTHOUGH--I have been feeling very guilty because I've moved our final feeding closer to bedtime--to the point where I am feeding her to drowsy, holding her for a few minutes, and then putting her down. It's not quite feeding to sleep but very close to it. Her bedtime routine works so well that we now have very strong sleep cues and by the time she has finished her bath and is in her swaddle, she knows it's bedtime and it's tough to keep her totally awake during the feeding. If this is done one time per day at bedtime is that enough to create a prop or association?
We have been working so hard on independent sleep that I would hate to derail it by doing this! We've done this for three days only, so it's not quite a habit yet and doesn't seem to be affecting daytime sleep.
