Help me change our routine!

Re: Help me change our routine!

• BackthePack

  August 2009

  Around 6 months he dropped the 3rd nap & started going to bed really early. Our schedule was something like this:

  7:30am - wake-up & nurse, play a little

  8:00am - breakfast

  9:00am - nap #1

  11:00am - wake-up & nurse, play & run errands

  (when we started lunch around 6.5 months, it was around 12-12:30)

  1:00pm - nap

  3:00pm - wake-up & nurse, play 

  5:00pm - dinner 

  5:30pm - bath & get ready for bed

  6:00 - nurse & bedtime (sometimes as early as 5:30! but it was winter & dark)

  J still is usually in bed between 6:30 - 7:00. He just can't handle staying up later than that most of the time. 

  Good luck - changing routine can be frustrating for a little while, but he'll get used to the change pretty quickly. 

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• crescentmoon99

  August 2009

  Wow, it's already so hard to remember what Liam's schedule was at 6 months!  He was a 30 minute cat napper though, so I think he was still taking 4 cat naps at that time.

  I think by 6 months Liam was starting to stay awake for 3 hours or so after his last nap before bedtime.  You might try having him awake a little longer before bedtime?  We do dinner about 5:45, then we would start bath time a little after 7, then bedtime bottle/nurse, bedtime story and bed by 7:30.
  

  Rachel & Bill 9-10-05, Liam Andrew born 5-30-08 (formerly lakebride05)
  

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• MrsHughesNC member

  August 2009

  Here is Holly's schedule for the days she's home with me:

  6:30--wake up and have bottle, usually gets in bed with us until about 7:15 (I will miss this so much when I go back to work! )
  

  7:30-9:30ish--play
  

  9:30--bottle then nap

  10:30--wake up, play

  11:15ish--lunch (solids--usually oatmeal & a fruit or veggie)

  11:30-1:30 or 2--play

  2:00ish--bottle then nap

  4:00-4:30--wake up and play

  5:15--dinner (solids: "entree," fruit, and veggie)

  5:30-6:00--sits at highchair and eats puffs, cheerios, etc while we eat dinner

  7:45--bath, then bottle

  8:00--bedtime

  Unless she's sick or something, she won't wake up again until 6:30

  GL!
  

   

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

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• lalabee0425

  August 2009

  I am not going to put times because this varies day to day, although about 5:30/6:00pm it goes pretty much at the same time. Her nursing schedule is every 3 hours, unless she's starving and then about 2.5.
  

  We do the nurse, play, nap, nurse play, nap routine. Right now we are doing 1 feeding in the evening, so we do that schedule throughout the day, and usually between 4pm and 5pm she will nurse. Then about 1 hour later, I feed her oatmeal. Then it's bath time and then I feed her again and it's bedtime.

  She is usually waking up once per night, any time between 2am and 5:30am! I feed her, but that does not affect the routine during the day at all. 

  When I add breakfast, I will do the morning feeding when she wakes up, then do breakfast, then play, nap, and nurse. 

  Good luck! 
  

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• raceyrae

  August 2009

  I'm having a hard time remember too.

  I now at 6 mo. she was starting her bedtime routine at 6:30, in bed by 7.  She had dinner at 5 p.m. of solids and I nursed her right before bed.

  She took 3 naps a day.  Got up at around 6-6:30 a.m. and went down for her 1st nap around 8-8:30 a.m.  Her last nap was around 3-4 p.m.  She was eating solids 3 times a day, about 45 min to an hour after nursing.  I nursed her at least 4 times during the day at that point.

  We ended up doing CIO at 5.5 mo. -- she immediately dropped both her night feedings on her own when we did CIO, I didn't have to do any night weaning.  She obviously didn't still need to nurse at night but it had become habit for both of us.

  
  
  

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