I actually meant to say that she is feeding every 3-5 (5 is absolute max) hours during the day, not actual sleep. E.g. if she wakes at 7am to feed then she'll be back in bed within an hour or so (around 8.30am ish) and would then wake around 10.30am/11.00am for her next feed. So your suggestion Kellxx is what I'm actually doing.

She is sleeping during the night in 5-7 hour blocks depending (she has gone 8 hours once where she slept from 6pm till 2am) and I've been told to consider that as "sleeping through". She still wakes anywhere between 2am and 5am for a feed depending on the day before and how much she took at her last feed. During the day she is having sleeps of between 2 and 3 hours at a time but if we go out then she won't sleep at all, such as today, we left home at 10am where I woke her to go out, we got back just before 2pm and she didn't have a sleep during that time until I put her down at 2.30pm after a change and a feed.

CrystalBoo - Yes I do consider myself lucky that she self settles so easily and I agree that if I don't need to rock/pat etc her now then i don't want to introduce it as a way of getting her to sleep. I have considered her environment but her room gets good protection from the sun in late afternoon/early night so I don't think it's a light issue and she also has no trouble sleeping middle of the day with a well lit room. I was thinking it might be the smells of dinner cooking are getting her senses going but not sure if babies have that happen at this age although I'd have to assume they would. Would be curious to see if it still happened if I didn't cook dinner for her to be able to smell it (maybe have toast)...

Tanstar - I thought that maybe she wasn't tired also but when I put her down it's on the verge of her screaming the house down. She is generally showing extreme tired signs and crashes out straight away so I'm pretty sure she is really tired. But no she isn't grizzly when I get her up. She just sits in her rocker and doesn't make a sound, just watches what is around her. Last night I didn't get her back to sleep till almost 9.00pm which I would think is too late for her to be awake.

Will see what happens tonight... She is asleep now (3.45pm) but should wake in the next 15-30 minutes so I'll go from there and see if we can have a better night (considering hubby is working late and I have my Dad and Sister coming for dinner - my Mum is interstate for work and Sister's fiance is working late so I'm the cook for the night! - Should make for an interesting night and possibly a late dinner if she plays up again )