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GSOD
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Help me get my LO on a routine/schedule!
GSOD
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She usually goes down between 9:30 or 10pm and will go four or five hours. When would you give a bath? She usually feeds from me every two hours but then seems to snack frequently from 4-9pm!!! When would you give a bath? I am giving her formula for her last feed of the night but only takes two ounces after snacking all night. Would you do bath right before last feed or earlier so she can play for a while (although she is super fussy until bedtime) My first woke every two hours(even in the night) and fed consistenty so I never had to figure this out!
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Re: Help me get my LO on a routine/schedule!
My LO was put on a routine at 2.5 months, and it became a schedule on it's own around 4/4.5 months (i.e. I can now predict her bedtime and nap times).
Here's a post I wrote on how it worked for me:
https://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/29470977.aspx
We feed her at 8:30 pm or 9, play with her until 10:30, then give her a bath followed by an infant massage with J&J Bedtime lotion until around 11 pm. Then she eats her only formula bottle of the day while being read a book. She zonks around 11:30 pm and sleeps til 7:30 am, eats again and goes back down until between 9:30-10:30 a.m.
We started doing the bath routine around 6 weeks and it has worked like a charm. She now associates bath, massage, bottle, and book with sleep, and you can see the shift in her behavior between before bath playtime and after bath book time. She goes from rowdy and squealing to completely calm. I believe in this routine, but every baby is different! GL!
When I started noticing LO cluster feeding in the evenings, I started a routine.
I BF him at 5pm, 7pm and 9pm. I start bathtime at 8:30--get out bath and towels, put out swaddling blankets, get a fresh diaper, then put water in tub and get LO. After bath I massage with a lotion if he's in a good mood--if he's crying I skip it. Then I swaddle and nurse him while DH reads him Goodnight moon. Sometimes I have to change him after feeding him, but usually not. Lately he's been asleep by 10pm.
It didn't used to be so set in times, but we've been working on it for a several weeks. And he used to go to sleep closer to 11, and I fed him at 10pm, but I've been moving it back slowly.
Don't know if any of that will help you, but hopefully you and your LO will find a routine that works for both of you soon :-)