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Different babies have different sleep cues, and it might take a little while before you figure hers out. Some babies will start yawning; other space out and just stare into nothing; others cry and get upset. Once you see her sleep cues, you can swaddle her and then put her to sleep like you normally would (snuggling, rocking, laying her down by herself, etc...).

Personally, I follow the one hour rule; at 0-3 months, I don't keep DS up for longer than about an hour at a time. Once we start rounding about the one hour mark, I start watching him more closely. Usually, he'll get kinda cranky and start trying to eat his hands. Then, I'll swaddle him and feed him his bottle; being swaddled while eating makes him very sleepy and I can eaither rock him to sleep or sometimes just lay him down and he'll fall asleep on his own.

@skibobrown: My understanding is that some sleep experts advocate separating feedings and naps so that your baby doesn't develop a suck-to-sleep association; many (most? all?) newborns naturally nurse or feed to sleep because of the biology of sucking, but it can become a problem in older babies who become reliant on sucking/nursing/feeding in order to fall asleep. If you never create that sleep association, though, you never have to break it, later down the road.

Personally, I did the same thing with DD and we never had an issue with it. I do try to make sure that DS (and DD, when she was a newborn) doesn't fall all the way to sleep while eating. Also, when DD got older and on a more established sleep pattern, I introduced a nap routine and other sleep associations so she wasn't reliant on feeding to fall asleep. My personal feelings are that newborns are biologically driven to suck to sleep, and that newborns can't form sleep associations anyway, so as long as you stop/change your routine before they get to an age where they are capable of forming habits, you should be fine.

I followed a Baby Whisperer type schedule and generally did not feed to sleep because I didn't want that type of association. The one exception was the night time feed before bed. I didn't let her stay up more than 90 minutes at a time so I swaddled her right before 90 minutes and started the nap routine. She usually went right to sleep.

yeah it was around 8 weeks before I saw any pattern. And now at 11 weeks it's whenever she's been up for 1.5 hours. With my first she hit a real routine at 6 months.

I used a schedule by month, so for x months old, awake time was y hours. It was less than 1 hour at 4 weeks IIRC.