crap.. did I do that?

When Lily was about 6 weeks old me and Mike started a bedtime routine. Every night we'd do the same thing, feed Lily her bedtime feeding, in the chair in her bedroom. she was pretty much asleep when we layed her down, and I was so proud that we figured out a plan that worked for our family. She went to sleep SO easy, too bad I didn't know I was planting a bad seed that would spring up in the future. What we didn't realize is, by putting her in bed pretty much knocked out... now MY KID CAN'T PUT HERSELF TO SLEEP!!! We figured this out because Lily still only sleeps through the night about 4 nights a week, Which is awesome. she'll sleep from 8pm to am. But the other 3 nights she wakes up once or maybe even twice. And every single time, she would need a bottle to put her self back to sleep. Whether she would wake up from a dirty diaper,teething or just waking up because of changing positions she would cry until she got a bottle. No matter how many times we would go in and pat her butt, or back she clearly let us know that wasn't going to cut it.

So here we go, in our attempt to help her learn to fall asleep at night, we are going to start feeding her the last feeding of the night downstairs in hopes that she will get drowsy from it, but be awake when we lay her down. here's hoping. Any one have any advice on this subject?.

The only strange thing is, she has put her self to sleep a few times, So that makes me think that maybe she does know how to.. She has fallen asleep on her own during naps and sometimes she'll wake up and just whine and then fall back asleep. So that kind of confuses me. Does she or doesn't she?? Maybe  she does, she just doesn't want to at night. HA! who knows. Think positive that this will help Lily start to sleep through the night, every night!