So with our babies being a little older and some of us likely having to go back to work soon, or just wanting some normalcy in our daily lives, let's talk about schedules. As much as I would like to carry LO everywhere and feed on demand, this is not going to happen.
I am totally clueless! What are your plans for establishing a routine throughout the day? At what age do you try to start scheduling naps? Bed times? Any advice from BTDT mom's to make things easier?
Post by abvintage on Sept 19, 2015 22:26:59 GMT -5
Right now he eats on this schedule and for the most part sticks to it. I feed on demand if he gets fussy and then wait until the next feeding time. 1:30a 6:00a 8:30a 11:00a 1:30p 4:00p 6:30p 9:00p
I just started following this and after a two days he was right there with me. I was surprised it worked out that way.
Edit: I just wake him up by changing his diaper for the feedings. He normally naps after a feeding. I try to have at least two periods of time where he stays awake between feeding. I always make sure before 9pm he is up so he'll go to sleep for longer!
Trying to start a night time routine. I make sure she's awake by 7 pm, then we take a bath around 8, nurse and I swaddle her by 9. Then we chill or I rock her to sleep or we nurse more. She sometimes is out by 10 and stays asleep for a good 5-6 hours. This doesn't always work yet btw. One day it might. Lol.
Right now he eats on this schedule and for the most part sticks to it. I feed on demand if he gets fussy and then wait until the next feeding time. 1:30a 6:00a 8:30a 11:00a 1:30p 4:00p 6:30p 9:00p
I just started following this and after a two days he was right there with me. I was surprised it worked out that way.
Edit: I just wake him up by changing his diaper for the feedings. He normally naps after a feeding. I try to have at least two periods of time where he stays awake between feeding. I always make sure before 9pm he is up so he'll go to sleep for longer!
How do you keep him awake? If she is sleeping and I wake her to change her or bath her she is very unhappy. So I guess, how do you keep him awake and happy is my question!
Post by cookiedough22 on Sept 20, 2015 7:40:03 GMT -5
Yesterday I was reading about a eat-play-sleep routine. I tried it yesterday and it worked well. It's supposed to help break the need to feed to sleep. It also gave me a little more knowledge when a nap was coming and it wasn't do random.
I also feed on demand and I have no idea how to schedule feeds for a certain time.
I still have about 6 weeks on maternity leave before daycare. I'm honestly thinking about letting the daycare provider (in home) set the schedule. It needs to work much more for her then I can just follow it in the weekends and time out of school.
Yesterday I was reading about a eat-play-sleep routine. I tried it yesterday and it worked well. It's supposed to help break the need to feed to sleep. It also gave me a little more knowledge when a nap was coming and it wasn't do random.
I also feed on demand and I have no idea how to schedule feeds for a certain time.
I still have about 6 weeks on maternity leave before daycare. I'm honestly thinking about letting the daycare provider (in home) set the schedule. It needs to work much more for her then I can just follow it in the weekends and time out of school.
this is pretty much what i am doing, trying to schedule an evening and night time routine, but waiting for daycare to determine daytime naps and feedings. I go back to work in early nov, so I plan on starting in Oct with pumping and more stringent schedules. I still feel like I am just surviving at this point.
Yesterday I was reading about a eat-play-sleep routine. I tried it yesterday and it worked well. It's supposed to help break the need to feed to sleep. It also gave me a little more knowledge when a nap was coming and it wasn't do random.
I also feed on demand and I have no idea how to schedule feeds for a certain time.
I still have about 6 weeks on maternity leave before daycare. I'm honestly thinking about letting the daycare provider (in home) set the schedule. It needs to work much more for her then I can just follow it in the weekends and time out of school.
this is pretty much what i am doing, trying to schedule an evening and night time routine, but waiting for daycare to determine daytime naps and feedings. I go back to work in early nov, so I plan on starting in Oct with pumping and more stringent schedules. I still feel like I am just surviving at this point.
I'm feeling the same way.
We nurse to sleep a lot, but I have heard that there are really no bad habits that you can create the first 10 to 12 weeks. I don't know if that is true seeing that this is my first but I'm following it for now. We are in survival mode still learning to cope with her reflux.
I'm definitely a type a person and craving routine but this is kind of good for me! I need to let her do what she needs. I am however going to the 90 minute sleep solution and look into that idea eat, play, then sleep. We will see if it works for her. ( truth be told I've been trying to read it for a while but can't find the time!)
With #1 I was more concerned/able to schedule, but trying to get dinner ready, everyone fed, dd#1 to bed, baby bathed, etc the evening fly by and it is 9:30 before I know it.
With #1 I was more concerned/able to schedule, but trying to get dinner ready, everyone fed, dd#1 to bed, baby bathed, etc the evening fly by and it is 9:30 before I know it.
Lol. This sounds like us too. I've been trying to go start a more concrete schedule at 5 weeks but it's harder this time around. I have 7 more weeks of leave, but I want to get on more of a schedule now for better family dynamics. It will be better to schedule family activities or time away.
zonagirl I change him and he starts having a hissy fit. Then I give him the boobs and he's happy. So basically I'm magic.
I always try to nurse after things that piss him off like diaper changes and baths. He starting to get frustrated with tummy time (which he liked at first) so I may have to adjust when I do that.
hopefulreturn we are in survival mode still too, partially because we just got the tongue tie fixed. But I have to be at work on October 1 and I work 12-14 hour days. Survival mode has to turn into serious routine very quickly and I'm terrified. I have no clue what I'm doing. We are still only sleeping 2, max 3 hour stretches at night.
We don't have a schedule yet. A lot of that is he has to work about my daughter's stuff. He's 8 weeks tomorrow. He does go to bed at 10 every night and usually wakes up between 2-4am. Then he eats every 2.5-3 hours during the day.
I do do the eat, play, sleep routine so he has at least a short nap between each feed. I also wake if he goes over 3.5 hours during the day. I'm not huge on schedules so he probably won't ever have a set one lol.
We generally try to follow an eat wake sleep routine, but I've nursed her before nearly every nap because she won't take a pacifier and the boob is the only thing that calms her down.
She generally goes 3 hours between feedings, but I'm with the other BTDTs in that I've got two other kids to work around. I do my best to accommodate her and stick to a routine, but she's pretty much got to conform to the other kids' schedules. I hope that by 4-6 months we can be a little more structured, but when they need 4 naps a day, it's tough to really plan them.
She absolutely will not put herself to sleep if I just lay her down. How many babies actually do that?
She absolutely will not put herself to sleep if I just lay her down. How many babies actually do that?
If I get Jackson reeeelly drowsy where he can barely keep his eyes open and then lay him down (before he's actually asleep) then he will fall asleep on his own.
Right now he eats 3 oz ( I EP) every 2-3 hrs during the day. I either get 1 or 2 wake ups at night - 2ish and 530ish if it's 2, 430ish if it's just 1.
He goes down somewhere between 9-10.
The only "routine" I have is - out of PJs after morning bottle, bath at 730 PM and into PJs, bottle following bath. Sometimes he will fall asleep with the bottle, other time he will stay awake for a bit before falling asleep.
Daycare will set the daytime routine when he goes. It was the same way with DS1.
Post by heavenwhip on Sept 20, 2015 19:57:34 GMT -5
No schedule here at nearly 9 weeks. This baby is goldilocks and it's a new story every day. Two days ago she happily napped in her swing, yesterday she would only nap if you laid her down, today she only naps in my arms. I give up! This goes for feeds too.
Last Edit: Sept 20, 2015 19:57:58 GMT -5 by heavenwhip
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I'll probably let daycare set the schedule since it needs to work for them more than for me. My days that I work vary. I work 3-4 twelve hour shifts a week. My days off are filled with errands, appointments, chores, and whatever else.
I have a bedtime routine that I base off of how she's doing that day. Once we get through the fussy hour(s), I give her a bath, pj's, and then one long feed. I swith sides when she gets really sleepy, and usually change her, swaddle her, and then give her the other side and let her fall asleep before putting her in the rock'n'play for the night. This is between 9-11pm, and she follows it pretty well. We also shut the house down prior to this, and when my SD is here, she does the same bath, pj's, story, song, bed routine that I plan on following for Annika.
During the day....I have no real schedule. Totally relieved that letting daycare work it out is a thing, because I felt lazy for assuming that would take place!
We roll on a four hour eat-play-sleep schedule too. It worked so well with my son and we've seen positive results with Eliza too. We're getting about a five hour stretch at night and still working out some timing kinks. I think she might take more than the 4 oz she normally gets per feeding if I tried to really fill her up before bedtime.
All this talk of eat play sleep, I think I'm going to try it out.
I don't follow set times but after feeding I encourage play then he begins to get sleepy soon after so it's nap time. Then he's usually hungry after his nap and it's a cycle all day.
He does nurse to sleep and throughout the night.
Of course today he's being different. He has literally ate then napped. Ate then napped. All. Day. Long.
All this talk of eat play sleep, I think I'm going to try it out.
I don't follow set times but after feeding I encourage play then he begins to get sleepy soon after so it's nap time. Then he's usually hungry after his nap and it's a cycle all day.
He does nurse to sleep and throughout the night.
Of course today he's being different. He has literally ate then napped. Ate then napped. All. Day. Long.
yeah, that's how I've been doing it today. No set time schedule, just a cycle. Its been working fairly well so far, he's gone down for naps without complaint and wakes up happy and hungry instead of angry and screaming for food
All of these people doing Eat Play Sleep, do you nurse to sleep?
(Just started this schedule today but) I'm formula feeding but no, I don't eat to sleep. If he start falling asleep I wake him up enough that he will finish eating and then change his diaper so he stays awake. Then we play for a while until he starts showing signs of sleepiness (rubbing eyes, yawning, etc.) and then he goes down for a nap. He usually fights being pit down to sleep but since we've started this schedule he's gone down without a problem and sleeps for at least 2.5 hours.
Post by bcmomsaysso on Sept 21, 2015 19:39:33 GMT -5
I have a routine during the day which has been fairly consistent. But, witching hours still keep our evenings chaotic. It's getting better...she's ready for bed at 8 like clockwork, but from 5-8 is mostly cycles of bouncing, soothing, and comfort nursing. Plus cooking dinner and sometimes an evening walk. I don't know how you moms with younger siblings do it, my kids can bathe themselves, brush their own teeth, and get their own pjs. I can't imagine trying to do all that and soothe a fussy infant. Eta. Burping keeps us from nursing to sleep, she always wakes herself up to burp. I do bounce her to sleep at bedtime. During the day she naps in her swing mostly, and falls asleep on her own.
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