Thanks for making this a sticky, Lucy. I was secretly hoping it would be one day

Shannon - I have always given Gabby her night time bottle when it's bed time. I wrap her up, put on a bib and feed her. She drinks about 200mls and sometimes zonks it. She goes straight to bed as soon as she has finished it. The last few nights I have fed it to her unwrapped and then wrapped her straight away and put her to bed. She still sleeps through (without the dummy because she's too full to protest, LOL). I guess I do it this way because the bottle used to completely zonk her when she was only weeks old. It was my way of getting her to go to sleep. As for the expressing - I have never bothered because I started off using the bottle as just a top up. I would BF her then give her the bottle straight away. So I figured I wasn't really missing a BF at all - just giving her some extra to get her to sleep. Now she gets a BF when she wakes up from her last nap and the bottle about 2 hours later.