Sleeping Like A Baby: The Saying That Doesnt Ring True

It is fairly common knowledge that having a newborn baby in the house, equals less than adequate sleep.  Sometimes to the point of barely being able to function as a normal human being.  You usually hear stories about lack of sleep until the baby is 6 months old when typically they stop waking to eat in the middle of the night.  If you are one of the lucky ones, this can occur around 4 or 5 months of age.  But what if you have a baby that still wakes every three or four hours to eat at night and it is beyond the 6 month stage?  This is what I have been enduring.  I have attempted to do "all the right things" when it comes to my baby and sleep.  I moved her into her own room around 2 months of age to get her used to be away from me.  I first moved her bassinet into that room to keep her comfortable and a few weeks later transitioned her into her big girl crib.  She actually transitioned rather easily without much fussiness or hesitation.  However, she has only a handful of times ever slept more than 5 hours at a time at night.  There has been a rare occasion or two where she has slept a full 8 hours.  This has only made matters worse, tricking me to think the day had finally come where I would get a full nights sleep.  I started feeding her solids to fill her tummy and make her more satisfied.  I have tried adding rice cereal to her bottles at evening feedings.  I didn't know what else I could do to make her sleep through the night so I started doing some research.  I discovered that babies at this age rarely wake because they need the extra calories like they did when they were growing so rapidly as newborns.  They wake now out of habit.  So in order for her and in turn me, sleep through the night I had to break the habit. Multiple different articles said that it should only take a night or two of calming and reassuring her but not feeding her and she would stop night waking.  Well my baby wants to eat.  There was no amount of talking to her and telling her it isn't time to eat it is time to sleep (which I read somewhere is supposed to work).  She didn't care.  The only thing that would calm her down was eating.  So instead of sitting up half the night trying to console her without feeding her, I decided to just feed her the bottle and be back in bed 30 minutes later. Granted, it's not the full night of sleep I have been wanting, but it will have to due for now.
Tip: Do what feels right to you as a mom.  Don't try to search out the perfect answer to an imperfect scenario. It doesn't exist. Every baby is different and every baby has its own specific needs.  In order to find out what works for you, let your baby guide you. They know more than we think they do.