oh Shell - Baby massage!! We did that last week...it is so much fun for them...and Paige LOVES her after bath massages now....we bought some Gaia massage oil and bath wash...she smells so nice for bedtime now.

Jodi-Lee - our nightime routine is always the same...no matter what time we start it. We usually begin around the 6pm mark but it can depend on her last feed. I tend to offer Paige the boobie a lot between her last nap and the start of her bath...cluster feeding works for us and it builds up a great supply for the nighttime feeds. I beliieve its the reason why P can go 5-6 hours after her last feed.
from 6pm (ish)I offer her 1 side....then we have our bath - then massage - dressed - other side of boobie - wrapped/dummy - sing twinkle twinkle whilst cuddling - then she is put down, kissed goodnight, then i leave the room. I make sure she has gotten up any wind as well. 9 times out of ten she will go down with minimal re-settling. She is usually asleep by 7-8pm.
During the day we try and go 3 hours between feeds until 5-6pm...and we try and start the day between 7 and 8am ( she feeds around 4am)....Paige tends to sleep around the same times...and i try and go 'out' when she is due to sleep...so she is napping during her sleep times, say in the car/pram..instead of her wake times...so she does not get out of whack too much iykwim.Her sleep cues ate the same in the day - minus twinkle twinkle - i pop her auqarium on then leave.

hth