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i think they have an app? i found it helpful for the week by week what to expect. i was more of a devotee of "12 hours by 12 weeks" and fwiw, they say that babies eat every 3-4 hours at night until they are eating 24 oz+/day or are 9 lbs., but maybe try to stretch feeding times during the day to 3.5-4 hour increments.

@Pumpkin Pie: Hi, sorry I forgot to reply! That thread you are referring to saved me. The thing we did that was really helpful was at 5 weeks we simultaneously moved him from the RNP to his crib for naps and nighttime, and we started "bedtime" routine (which felt like a joke to me at the time since he was up 24 hours a day--but it REALLY helped).

So no matter what happened during the day, at 6:30pm we'd start bedtime, and he was asleep in his crib by 7:30pm. Within 3 or 4 days, he went from sleeping 2.5/hrs at a time to sleeping like 6/7 hours in the first block after bedtime, it was amazing. (My baby is *not* a unicorn sleeper.) I was still getting up once or twice at night to do feedings, but think about it this way: that first block of sleep after bedtime is the longest they will sleep in a 24-hour period, and that is the block of time that will stretch out to eventually become your baby STTN.

For us it got much better at 6 weeks (after a week of doing this) and then from weeks 8-15 it was really good, I was only getting up once at 4am, which was totally fine. Then the 4 month sleep regression hit + holiday schedule fubar, and I was suddenly up 3x a night again. So that was when we did full extinction and night weaning, which SUCKED COMPLETELY, but he's now going 12 hours

Here is our bedtime routine:
turn down all the lights low
put on soft classical music
start heating up water for the big tank up bottle
baby bath
lotion and massage
clean jammies
nurse *and* give a huge bottle (basically you want to ply them with milk--this is the most important step, give more than the baby will eat)
swaddle/sleep sack
walk upright/burp for a few minutes
put down drowsy but awake

Good luck! let me know how it's going.

@LCTBQE: so happy to read how everything worked for you you might have posted something sooner but I missed it.