Post by mrsmonogrammed on Jul 29, 2015 10:41:39 GMT -5
Now that our babies are getting older and we have to actually work to get them to nap/go down for bed, what kind of tips/tricks are you using? How many times a day are your babies napping? What time is your bedtime/when do you start the routine? What's their longest stretch at night?
I think it will be interesting to see the different responses across the board:)
She usually puts herself down for a nap, as for bed time though swaddling is the only trick I use. I usually feed her around 8, swaddle her then cuddle until 8:30 when I lay her in her bassinet. She will typically sleep until 1:30 or 2:30 am then up at 6:30 before we're up for the day at 8.
I'm really curious what other people say about naps. Because we have no nap schedule at all. He just sleeps whenever during the day. Night time has been pretty consistent for us for a few weeks. He goes down about 8/8:30, I dream feed sometime between 10/11, he pretty much sleeps through that, wakes to eat sometime between 4 and 5 and goes back down until we get up for the day about 7:30. Usually he's still sleeping, but we have to get up to take the girls to preschool, so I get him up so he can eat before we go. He usually falls back to sleep in the car and will sleep until next feeding at 10/10:30.
The only consistent nap is in the afternoon after he eats at 1/1:30. We cosleep for that because that's the girls nap time and co sleeping ensures he will sleep, so we can all nap at that time. Otherwise naps are whenever he falls asleep. He's 7.5 weeks. ETA - I forgot to say that we start bedtime around 7/7:30 - nurse, then all three kids in the bath, then PJs on for him and if he's super tired he gets in his sleep sack and goes to bed in the PNP. If he's more awake he stays up for stories with the girls. But either way he goes in the PNP awake and is good about putting him self to sleep at night.
Post by turtletyme on Jul 29, 2015 11:07:29 GMT -5
No real nap schedule or pattern yet at 6 weeks. We start winding down for bed/do pjs at 9. Lately, this is when I end up spending an hour walking and rocking bc she has a shit fit. She is up around 1/2 and again sometime between 4 and 6. Whether I get a "morning nap" after a bottle or a bit later depends on the day. Basically all over the place.
No real nap schedule or pattern yet at 6 weeks. We start winding down for bed/do pjs at 9. Lately, this is when I end up spending an hour walking and rocking bc she has a shit fit. She is up around 1/2 and again sometime between 4 and 6. Whether I get a "morning nap" after a bottle or a bit later depends on the day. Basically all over the place.
This is basically us as well. Glad that we aren't the only ones without a schedule yet!
Post by wegrowsheep on Jul 29, 2015 12:49:26 GMT -5
No schedule/routine here. He eats every 1.5 to 2.5 hours all day, and varies a lot at night still, every 2.5 to 4.5 hrs. However bedtime generally starts at 7:30 or 8.
Post by musicfrk2002 on Jul 29, 2015 12:51:59 GMT -5
Our day seems to start between 5 and 6 for the most part (today was more like 645). He eats and then is usually up for a couple hours afterwards, then usually falls asleep on me for about an hour. Then he eats around 9 or 10 then falls asleep again.
Afternoons depend on how long he sleeps after the last feeding and where we are, but he usually takes a nap after lunch and then does nothing but scream after his dad gets home.
We don't have any sort of a bed time routine here. I am getting to where I can tell if he is getting tired, which is usually around his 8 to 10 pm bottle. Sometimes he will fall asleep while we are holding him, sometimes he does better if we just stick him in his crib an turn the sound machine on. We have not been swaddling, and he sleeps on his stomach. He hasn't been waking up in the MOTN for the past week other than some fussing around 3 (mot every night) but falls back asleep once his pacifier is back in his mouth.
I think the longest stretch has been 6.5 hours and is pretty consistent. He did wake up last night an hour after H put him down, but that might have been because he was on his side, since he fell right back asleep in my arms in less than 5 minutes.
Post by silv3rlining on Jul 29, 2015 12:52:36 GMT -5
I didn't do a schedule with DS as a baby and just followed his cues. Part of me would like to do one with LO but she's still so unpredictable. DS goes down for his nap around 1130/12 at which point I also try to catch a nap. Sometimes LO cooperates and sometimes she doesn't. As far as bedtime DS goes down 7/730 and LO is usually down 930/10. I did managed 745 2 nights and I'd love to make it work where we do bedtime together.
We have no nap schedule yet. She sleeps whenever she wants during day. She naps about every 30 min-2 hours during day so her awake time is still very limited.
For getting her to sleep we have tons of different methods. For daytime naps if I'm out she sleeps in the carrier or car etc. if she is at home she naps swaddled in the rock n play or on me or in carrier. At night she sleeps in her crib swaddled. At nightime I nurse her to sleep or rock her standing up or in the glider. She is pretty chill and easy to go to sleep so far. Her brother is the opposite at age 2 and he has always been like that.
She sleeps from 730pm-2am. Then wakes at 5 or 6am. So she only has one wake up unless she is having an off night. Her first nap of day is at 7am. It seems she is an early riser for now.
We don't do a bedtime routine yet. I usually bath her 1-2 times a week mid day or afternoon. The only routine for now is taking her in her room , changing to pjs w white noise on and rocking her, nursing her around 7pm. I do hold her while I'm reading bedtime stories to DS so I guess that is part of her routine as well.
Recently our "schedule" has been a few naps during the day, most consistently around lunch (12ish) which is when I go on my errands, etc.
Around 6pmish the crying, fussing, cluster feeding commences. Then usually in bed around 8-8:30pmish. Not much of a bedtime routine for him other than to try to minimize the crying and I have to get DD ready for bed.
Sleeps until 3-4:30amish. DH and DD wake shortly thereafter so sometimes we don't go back to bed until they leave around 5:45. Then sleep until 7-8amish. Another feeding then we might go back to bed until 10amish if I'm feeling sleepy, lazy, etc.
Post by billyhorrible on Jul 29, 2015 13:57:53 GMT -5
Naps aren't terribly scheduled, but he certainly can't hang for a full hour yet. If we're out he naps in a carrier. At the first sign of fatigue he gets swaddled and I rock him while singing a lullabye. In the morning that usually knocks him out and he goes in his crib. In the afternoon, I try but it doesn't work so I unswaddle and put him in a carrier.
Bedtime is easy. DH gets home around 6,gives him a bath, swaddles, reads a story, gives him a bottle, and puts him in the crib. He puts himself to sleep and wakes anywhere from 1am to 5am the first time, then usually is up around 6:30/6:45.
No schedule yet. generally her and DS are both getting up somewhere between 7-8. DS naps 1-3pm, she typically sleeps through half to all of that. DS goes to bed at 8, so by the time we have supper, bath him, and DD gets a bath every 2-3 nights, the last few days she's been settling around then too! This was after weeks of a horrible witching 'hour' that slowly but surely kept getting cut down by and hour or 1/2 hour every weekish since she was born. Fingers crossed this starts to become the new normal (well, as normal as normal is for a baby haha), because it's been a lot nicer starting to feel like we aren't preparing for the big fussy period to start every evening.
Overnight we bed share, so she rarely has wakeful periods. Some nights she's squirmier and hungrier than others. We've had one night of STTN that happened a week or so ago, otherwise generally the norm is getting a good few hours at the start of the night, then shorter periods from around 4ish to 7 or 8 ish.
I'm an overexplainer.
TL;DR is I definitely have tired days, but doing better than I thought it would be with two, and getting longer stretches with her than I did with DS by this stage.
ETA oops sorry, thanks for the reminder carolyngrace! DD is 8 weeks old tomorrow.
LO has somewhat of a routine to sleeping, but not much of a schedule, except at night. We head to bed between 9:30 and 11 most nights and just put him to bed then. We do diaper change, PJs on, quick nursing session, story and then he goes in the PnP awake with his aquarium light/ sound machine. Sometimes he gets his bink if he's a little fussy. He usually sleeps until around 7, but occasionally wakes at 5. If so, we do another quick nurse and he goes back to sleep. At 7 we're up for the day - he eats, stays awake to socialize for a bit and then takes a 2-3 hour nap. Then he usually does a second cycle of the same, but the next nap has been getting shorter lately. He has long wakeful periods in the afternoon and with 3-4 naps that are about 30-45 minutes. I'm trying to track his sleep, but it's hard to tell if he's just milk drunk and he's just dozing or if he's really asleep and going to be for a while.
Post by PurpleIris on Jul 29, 2015 15:32:47 GMT -5
3.5 weeks old. We're slowly getting into a morning nap (1 hr this morning) and a longer afternoon nap (2.5ish hours). She falls asleep again around 8pm, DH wakes her around 11 for a feed, she wakes again around 3:30am and I feed her, and then is out until about 8am. We still have the fussy "witching hours" in the evening, which I recall lasting for awhile with my son. But I will gladly take those if she sticks with just one MOTN wake up.
Post by mrskblack11 on Jul 29, 2015 15:48:33 GMT -5
No nap schedule during the day but he usually will do a 2 hour nap in the afternoon. He usually falls asleep when I nurse but as soon as I move him into the PnP he usually will wake. If I have him in the carrier he will fall asleep and nap.
I nurse him starting around 9pm. We co sleep and I SL nurse to put him to sleep. Lately he hasn't fallen asleep until closer to 11. He will usually sleep for 4-5 hours, eat, then sleep for another 3 hours. We are up for the day between 8-9am.
No nap schedule here, but I can usually count on a nap from 3-4:30/5ish. Bedtime routine starts around 8 with a nice long walk in the stroller which calms him down, bath on bath nights, swaddle and bottle. After all of that its around 9:30. He will sleep until 2:30/3, but we've had one night until 4. He gets about a 3hr stretch after that.
We have zero pattern emerging during the day right now. He usually doesn't want to sleep at all and only goes in 10-20 minute spurts. However he did take a two hour nap today, with me, which was wonderful.
We have a great routine and pattern happening at night though. We give him a warm bath every evening between 7:30-8:00. Occasionally sooner if he "asks" for it. He loves his bath time so much and anticipates it and it really helps him to relax and let him know it's time for sleeping. After bath I give him a massage with lavender lotion, nurse him, and then cuddle him until he falls asleep. It takes anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour. As soon as he is asleep enough we transfer him to the RnP in our room. Most nights he's asleep by 9:00. He then sleeps until between 1:30-2:00 and wakes up to eat. I nurse him while holding him on my chest and dozing myself for about 30 minutes and then he goes right back to sleep. He then sleeps until anywhere between 5:30-6:30. One of us just gets up with him for the day at that point.
There are still some sleepless hell nights in there but I'd say 7 of the last 10 nights he's followed that very predicable scenario and it is wonderful. Still not as much sleep as I would like but only waking up one time between 9 and 6 is pretty awesome for seven weeks old and I'll take it. I do try to go to sleep myself as soon as possible after he is out. We'll continue leaving him in our room with us until we also get him napping regularly during the day and are able to get him to do it in his crib. Then we'll move him to his own room at night.
Post by carolyngrace on Jul 29, 2015 19:10:24 GMT -5
Oscar is 8.5 weeks old.
He sleeps approx 8pm - 1am - 4am - 7am on a good night. On a bad night the intervals are shorter and I'm up more often.
At around 6 weeks we started having success letting him cry himself to sleep in about 3-4 minutes. We discovered he could do it by accident, but it worked really well. When we tried to comfort him he would physically wiggle away from us and cry harder. (of course this is after lots of nursing and making sure diaper is dry, etc). We also started the crib full-time after using the swing up until that point, and he transitioned easily.
The last two nights he's been REALLY difficult to get to sleep again, and is currently sleeping in swing (again) after being nursed and bounced and nursed (on repeat) for over an hour. So I hope it's just a bad day or two and he goes back to falling asleep on his own in the crib again.
He does a quick morning nap (8am - 9am or so) a long afternoon nap (11am - 2pm or so) and then 1-3 short naps after that (usually nothing more than an hour) depending on the day. He goes to sleep really easily on his own during the day, no crying usually. Just stairs at the wall until his eyes shut!
LO has somewhat of a routine to sleeping, but not much of a schedule, except at night. We head to bed between 9:30 and 11 most nights and just put him to bed then. We do diaper change, PJs on, quick nursing session, story and then he goes in the PnP awake with his aquarium light/ sound machine. Sometimes he gets his bink if he's a little fussy. He usually sleeps until around 7, but occasionally wakes at 5. If so, we do another quick nurse and he goes back to sleep. At 7 we're up for the day - he eats, stays awake to socialize for a bit and then takes a 2-3 hour nap. Then he usually does a second cycle of the same, but the next nap has been getting shorter lately. He has long wakeful periods in the afternoon and with 3-4 naps that are about 30-45 minutes. I'm trying to track his sleep, but it's hard to tell if he's just milk drunk and he's just dozing or if he's really asleep and going to be for a while.
ETA for carolyngrace - Z is 7 weeks old Edit: apparently I can't edit...only quote myself. Someday I'll learn to internetz
im jealous of all the mommas whose baby puts themselves to sleep! DD refuses to do that. She wont go to sleep unless she is held.
I hold DD to sleep as I did DS for months. It won't last forever, and it's a very odd occasion for DS to do it now. I promise you you'll look back on these days and treasure them and wonder where they went!
Post by holliberry28 on Jul 29, 2015 20:52:58 GMT -5
No nap schedule yet either. M will be 6 weeks in friday. He can only sleep upright, During the day either on me or in the swing, and at night in the RnP. The only time he sleeps flat is in the stroller when we go outside. Haven't figured out when/how well transition him to sleeping flat. I've been sleeping on the couch since week 2 while he's in the RnP so DH can get sleep for work.
Usually wakes up to eat around 11-12, 3-4, and then 5-6. During day naps are shorter and he's fussier.
Post by thecatsmeow on Jul 29, 2015 23:39:36 GMT -5
LO is 7 weeks. We are also in the no real schedule camp. He dictates nap time and it seems to vary so much. I was trying to start bedtime around 8ish, and that worked for a short while. Basically that consisted of clean diaper, nursing, quiet room with dimmed lights, and cuddles. Recently he has been a bear and having none of it, fighting it until he finally crashes at 10, 10:30, 11. So for my own sanity we've been starting a little later and that is working better for now. It gets complicated with DH work schedule, he does shift work and on when on days he first gets home around 7:15p. I think we are gonna have problems in the future trying to get into a meal time and bed time routine. Not looking forward to that. One day at a time I guess.
Charlotte is 8 weeks. No real nap schedule, though I plan on working on that soon. She usually takes 1-3 naps a day though.
Bedtime starts at 7:45. She gets a bath, some nakie baby time, nursed, swaddled, rocked and sung to until she falls asleep (usually between 8:30 and 8:45). She currently does not put herself to sleep. We tried that tonight and it did not work.
She will usually sleep from 8:30ish until 3:30ish. Then back down until anywhere from 7am - 9am.
Also no real schedule or routine for us (just about 8 weeks). Usually for naps, he'll have a big one in the late morning to early afternoon (usually 2 hours sometime between 11-2); the rest of the time it's cat naps here and there. We are on the go a lot, so there is no putting him down for naps at this point. When he falls asleep, that's when he naps.
For nighttime, I have the routine starting later since H and I are both home for the summer. We get in pajamas around 8, feed a few times, and V is usually asleep between 10-11. He'll wake up once or twice between then and 6:00 to feed. At 6, H gets up and lets me sleep another 2 hours or so. Once we go back to work, I'd like to move his bedtime back to about 8ish so that we can do one MOTN feed (hopefully) around 1-2, and up for the day around 5:30ish.
This is my hope as well!! Almost same exact schedule. I start back to work next week.
Can I just say I am SUPER jealous of all you mamas whose babies sleep for 5-6 hour stretches at night!? I'm lucky if I get a 4 hour stretch.
Tins is 12 weeks actual, 7 weeks adjusted. She naps during the day from about 8/9 to 11ish, again from about 1/2 to 4/5ish, and then again from about 6:30 to 8 or so. We bathe her and all that jazz starting between 8:30 and 9, and give her a bottle/nurse her after that (usually between 9:30 and 10). Then the fun starts. She will fight sleep until at least 11 or 12. She then wakes up between 2:30 and 3:30 to eat, and again between 5 and 6.
I'm trying to figure out how I will get myself ready for work and get her taken care of as well three days during the week. I'm not sure what the best approach is going to be.
Post by missjenniebean on Jul 30, 2015 1:02:21 GMT -5
She's in daycare during the day but I am pretty sure they follow her lead and they have designated nap time. We let her lead during the day but she is up probably a good portion of it while taking cat naps (20-30 minutes) throughout the day when she feels like it.
Nighttime, we feed her about 7, maybe a bath, then is cuddled and swaddled. She is usually out cold between 730-830 and doesn't wake until 1-2 then is up again between 430-530 for a feed then sometimes she is back down til 8 but if no daycare she usually is up with me until she feels the need to nap. We go to bed at 9 due to our early starts so it works well.
We've had a couple nights where she refuses to sleep so she'll sleep more during the day but generally she is pretty good.
We have no schedule here yet. DD is 6 weeks is still up every 1-2 hours at night and feeds about that frequently during the day. She sleeps like shit everywhere but on me and hates her swaddle.
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