Sleeping... part 2

Over the last few weeks we've introduced a bottle of formula around the last feed time. It seemed to make a difference for a short while, and then, it seemed that it didn't and baby girl continued to wake every three hours even after taking 9 oz! The health visitor advised us to keep trying, and that she couldn't really be hungry three hours after such a large feed. It seemed to me to be more habit than hunger that was waking her up, so we spent the last week or more trying to rock her back to sleep when she wakes in the night, and, when that failed, at least it meant we had extended the period between the feeds slightly. Over the last few days she seems to be improving. We've had a couple of good nights where she slept from 7pm through till 7am, waking only once during this time for the bottle feed. A few more nights like this would be great.

Meanwhile she is just lovely during the day - she's making all kinds of expressive new vowel sounds and gurgly noises that are just wonderful to hear - and she is obviously delighting in this new found voice of hers.