Astrid my daughter is 10.5 months old. She had BF every 2 hours from day one, there was a couple of weeks where she started to wind down to a point of even having a 9hr sleep once but when she hit her growth spurt at around 2.5 months that was the end of it. Since then she has not looked back, sometimes some of her feeds start to slow down but almost straight away she starts teething or hits a milestone.

Anyway because of this she is a very wakeful baby since birth, as a newborn I had alot of trouble even getting her to sleep during the day, she always fights it, still does, I was never able to put her down, some days even now shes like that!
I figure being an alert baby is not a bad thing we should fight, its just their survival instincts they were born with. I read some articles on high needs babies by Dr Sears which I thought were good.

Where I am going with this is I never could get her to go to sleep in it and if I left her there and tried to pat/shhhh her even for just a minute she would get upset to the point of vomiting. I came to the conclusion she is just a very sensitive girl who likes my company.
During the day I always put her to sleep beside me in the rocker or if that doesn't work in the pram. Sometimes she still fights it and if she falls asleep during a feed on those days I let her sleep in my arms for a couple of hours to make sure she has her day sleep.
At night I would try to put her down asleep in her cot for her first sleep (which often didn't work) and after that I co-slept, it was the only way I could cope with the 2 hour feeds otherwise I have to stay awake untill shes in deep sleep before I transfer her in the cot so I end up only getting an hours sleep at a time and run the risk of waking up too much and not being able to fall back to sleep. Plus that is provided she doesn't wake when I put her in

Once she started crawling, so I could keep co-sleeping I took her cot out of my room and put a mattress on the floor besides my bed (I miss my comfy bed dearly!)which bubs and I sleep on.

Anyway I'm getting right off the track here arn't I?

My daughter can really fight sleep when she wants to no matter how tired she is, but I found a way to get her down at night. What I do is bring her in the bedroom, have a play as she really likes to have a play on the mattress then I tell her its time for bed put her in her sleeping bag which sometimes she will whinge at especially if we don't have a play first. Then, say night, night and I turn the lights off so it is dark and feed her on the mattress, 99.9% she falls asleep and then I just wait for her to get into a deeper sleep before I get up and walk out. If she doesn't go to sleep its usually because the other half is too noisy watching TV or something and she is listening to it. I also find say there is a full moon and the room is light I may have a little trouble.

Shes the same as yours with the solids and is only just starting to eat more then a taste now, shes tall and chubby too but she was a big baby right from the start (9lb 7.5oz)shes just starting to walk now so hopefully things will settle soon.

Anyway it might seem a bit unorthodox and I guess it is in comparison to the western parts of the world today but otherwise the more I think about it the more I think shes pretty normal just a bit more vocal with communicating her needs/wants, but for survival in some parts of the world still today that is necessary...

Good luck