Post by misshart00 on Mar 20, 2015 21:04:14 GMT -5
For the baby, I feed him at about 8:30 or 9, burp him, swaddle him, and put him in the RnP. Then I move him to the office for "bedtime." Then I stay up and have a snack and watch tv.
It makes me feel a lot better about life. Like I put the kids to bed then I can have some me time, take a shower, and go to bed with my husband.
At 8pm DS (6 weeks) and DD (2 years) get a bath at the same time. DH bathes DS and I bathe DD. DD goes to bed, husband reads her story and sit with her until she falls asleep. At the same time I feed, burp and put DS to bed in his crib. Kids are usually asleep by 9 and we are usually asleep by 10-1030. DS is FF and still eats every 3 to 4 hours.
Post by misshart00 on Mar 20, 2015 21:14:10 GMT -5
Oh yeah, DD (18 months) goes to bed at 7. Bath some nights, reading some nights. She gets her two pacis, because she has to have choices (my daughter is weird), and her lambie. And we lay her down in her crib.
I can't get my LO down before 11pm. if I do he magically wakes up at 11 and screams for an hour or so before settling down for the night. I've taken to giving him a bath every other day and on those nights we do a massage after the bath and read a story, he then gets the last bottle and we are off to bed. LO is 5 weeks.
We start with bath around 9:30 which DH does while I get ready for bed. He swaddled and hands her off to me for a feed. Once asleep I lay her down in our bed then I climd in on the other side.
DD1 (2 years) starts bath at 6:30, jammies, hair drying, a quick round of hide and go seek (trying to cut this out), two books and milk. DD2 will have the same routine when the time comes for sleep training.
We start around 8 to 9. Bring him to our room and darken the lights. Dh reads to him for about 10 minutes. Then I feed him (breastfed). Change is diaper between breasts. Usually he falls asleep on the 2nd one so I can swaddle and put him in the rnp. The goal is to then transfer to the pnp although that hasn't been going so well lately. The last few day the routine seems to be working and he has been asleep by 1030.
Post by sugahcookie01 on Mar 21, 2015 5:10:12 GMT -5
DH changes and swaddles him and gives him some cuddles while I prep his bottle - we are all formula. I feed and rock him with lights dimmed and sound machine on, and when he is fully out I put him in the pack n play. This is usually started between 9 and 10 depending on when he is hungry.
We haven't started adding things like books or baths yet because those things would stimulate him too much and we want night to be super boring right now to encourage sleep and eliminate day/night confusion.
The people who are transitioning their LO's to pnp are you doing this because you are trying to transition them to a flat surface before putting them in their room?
The people who are transitioning their LO's to pnp are you doing this because you are trying to transition them to a flat surface before putting them in their room?
We are using a PNP in the bedroom because LO loathed his bassinet. It was our friend's and the bed wasn't level. Then, we went to the swing because he wanted to sleep on an incline. Now, he is over that because he can't stretch his legs as much. So, onto the PNP for the past two weeks. This will help withe transition to the crib. Also, LO is starting to take naps in his crib to help with the transition. Once he throws a fit about sleeping in the PNP, he is not going to like his last option...the crib.
Swear this kid takes after DH, so picky about everything.
Post by michelle142 on Mar 21, 2015 11:13:48 GMT -5
For dd (4weeks): Bath on Wednesday and Saturday night for now. Around 730, I nurse her. Then she gets a fresh diaper, swaddled and into the PnP with the white noise machine going. She's usually completely out by 815. Exclusively bf, she wakes at about midnight, 330am and up for the day by 730ish.
For DS (3years) Bath every other night at about 7. Potty, brush teeth and into pjs by 745. Book, then bed. He goes to sleep on his own and STTN from 8 until about 630.
DH doesn't get off work until 10pm. We don't have a routine because we have a bit of family time when he gets home. We all sleep in until the afternoon before Daddy goes to work. We'll try getting her on a better schedule when I het closer to going back to work.
Post by toadandbuggie on Mar 21, 2015 18:10:43 GMT -5
No routine here either. Sometimes LO is better about going to sleep at a time we like to than other nights. I've been swaddling and dimming the lights, rocking to sleep about 8-9pm though and if it works he is usually up 3 times per night - about 12, 2, 4, and for the day 7ish.
I'm just now starting to set a routine. We are changing diaper, pajamas, nurse, burp, offer nurse again, book, offer nurse again, song then bassinet in our room. We will see how it goes.
Do you change diapers during MOTN feedings? I try to keep them as boring as possible. But I don't want to leave him in a wet diaper for hours, like a lot of things I have read suggest.
Post by nomnomasaur0426 on Mar 21, 2015 22:51:15 GMT -5
Usually bath between 8:30-9:30 (weekends we get there a little later..), then massage while putting on lotion, fresh outfit, DH gives LO a bottle of breastmilk while I pump, shower, and get myself ready for bed. Then DH wraps him up and we sit in bed and read to him. Sometimes LO is still fussy/hungry so I'll nurse, then we get him down in the RNP in our room.
I'm just now starting to set a routine. We are changing diaper, pajamas, nurse, burp, offer nurse again, book, offer nurse again, song then bassinet in our room. We will see how it goes.
Do you change diapers during MOTN feedings? I try to keep them as boring as possible. But I don't want to leave him in a wet diaper for hours, like a lot of things I have read suggest.
I only change for poop. Disposables really wick away the moisture so I just put a little A&D on before bed. I changed more often her first week or so but have backed off since the pooping has decreased.
I second that. If there is poop, yes. Otherwise NOPE. We recently started using pamper baby dry on friend advice and they REALLY keep the wetness away at night
Around 7-8pm DD2 will take a bottle (formula). Around 8-8:30 we start winding down. DD1 gets changed into pjs, brushes teeth, and gets read a few books (all by DH) while I change DD2 into pjs/sleep sack and fresh diaper. DD1 goes to bed. I lay DD2 down in a bassinet in our dimly lit room. We put a sound machine on in DD1's room and it goes through the video monitor to our room for DD2. Finally if DD2 fussed we give her a paci, which usually knocks her out for about 4 hrs.
I've been eliminating some of the middle of the night diaper changes. She rarely poops at night. If I do change her it's a quick change and back to the bassinet (she never liked diaper changes anyway so they are always quick though).
Do you at least check it to see if there's poop? At that point I feel I may as well change it too while I'm there.
Check it = opening it and pulling the back out
I don't check unless LO is fussy and won't get back to bed. He will usually go back to sleep right away after a feeding so if he won't I know something is bothering him. I changed it way more when he pooed a lot more, but now he barely does so I try to wait until at least a semi decent morning hour to keep trying to get him on the day/night recognition (I refuse to change a diaper in the dark and even a small light wakes him up even more). Last night for example his diaper was changed at 10pm and then not until 6am.
Yea, we don't really do a routine yet. I just stick him in a swaddle and put him in the pack n play after a feeding (usually around 8-9). He is ebf.
Even for our older girls (3&5) we don't have a very elaborate routine. Around 7:30 we tell them to get on their jammies and brush their teeth. If they do this in a reasonable amount of time they get to pick a book or two to read. Either way we tuck them in around 8 and that's it.
Routine? Haha. Feed the baby and try to get him to sleep.
Haha this. I make sure he's in a clean diaper and outfit, nurse him to sleep, pray he continues sleeping through the transfer from my arms to the RnP, turn on the white noise, and hope that he sleeps longer than two hours.
At 8pm DS (6 weeks) and DD (2 years) get a bath at the same time. DH bathes DS and I bathe DD. DD goes to bed, husband reads her story and sit with her until she falls asleep. At the same time I feed, burp and put DS to bed in his crib. Kids are usually asleep by 9 and we are usually asleep by 10-1030. DS is FF and still eats every 3 to 4 hours.
This is us except we try to get to the tub at 730 bc DD will stay in there forever. Oh and we have 2 boys to bathe/feed
Start between 7-8pm depending on the last time she ate and napped. Bath once or twice a week. I wash her face and neck good 2 times a day because she gets kinda spitty. Then lotion every night, into pjs (she actually really hates the swaddle and has hated it for about 2 weeks now) nice warm bottle of ebm which H or grandma gives. She sleeps in the pnp while H and I catch up on some of our TV shows. Hopefully she sleeps until at least midnight.
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