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Peach&Fireworks
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At what age did you get your baby on a schedule?
Peach&Fireworks
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I know 3 weeks is a little young to be setting a schedule, but I'm a schedule kinda gal and I'm looking forward to the day where I can somewhat predict the day's events. Right now I'm just going by what DD does and the little bugger stays awake a LOT during the day! At what point will she start doing a morning and afternoon nap? Do I need to start doing that with her now or do I still let her set the schedule?
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Re: At what age did you get your baby on a schedule?
He sort of created his own schedule at around 6 weeks. We don't hold him to it, but we've found that by watching him, we figured out when he "normally" does certain things and what makes him happiest.
Try keeping track of what she already does - you might see some patterns forming already.
Here's our current schedule (typed out for Grammy-Care):
Daily Schedule
1am food (he skips this every other night now - YAY!!!)
Sleep
4-5am food
Sleep
7:30am food
Stay awake till... (this is usually Happy Baby Time)
11:30 food
12-3pm NAPTIME
3pm food
Stay awake till...
6:30 food
7:30 bathtime
8:00-8:30, jammies, songs and cuddles
8:30 bedtime (sometimes takes till 9 to get him down if he's fussy)
This. DS is 3 months. There are napping and eating patterns that I can expect but no schedule. Eating is every 3 hours or so, sometimes a little longer, sometimes a little sooner. Napping usually happens about an hour and a half after he wakes up, though same thing on being flexible about the time. I have started waking him at 7AM since I return to work next week and want to be able to nurse before I leave. The loose rest of the day works for us.
DS pretty much naps when he wants to - however, he is not as good of a napper now as he was before. Up until 8 weeks he napped a lot and would do so for a good 1-2 hours at a time. Now, he naps maybe 15-40 minutes at a time max and only maybe 3 times a day. Unless he goes with me in the car, then he definitely falls to sleep for the duration. Now DS is 15 weeks+ and he is spoiled because grandma is here and she will rock him to sleep for naps and hold him for hours... I am trying to get her out of the habit because once she leaves I wont be doing that.... anyway, if he gets rocked and held he will sleep for a good 1-2 hours - otherwise, just short cat naps throughout the day. He is also STTN and goes down around 9pm every night. He does wake around 4am and will either just need a pacifier or sometimes a bottle. He is up for the day at 6:30am. I have noticed that no matter how many naps he takes during the day, he still sleeps well at night.
G was and still is eating every 4 hours during the day. At about 2 months he started sttn. At 3 months he really got his nap pattern down.
DD still doesn't have a strict schedule. Her sleeping still isn't consistent, so it is hard to have a set schedule. She also isn't a great napper, so as much as I would LOVE to have 2 good naps a day, we get 3-4 not so good naps.
That being said, the past week she's been up between 7 and 7:45 and she goes to bed between 7 and 7:30. Sometimes she wakes up between 1 and 4, sometimes she doesn't. She goes down for a nap about 1.5-2 hours after she gets up and she eats every 4 hours.
For the first couple weeks it was whatever she decided. Around 3 months we had a routine but no real times associated with it. We started a whole bath/nursing/bed routine around that age and started it when she showed signs that she was tired. By 4 months we were doing it at the same time every night and that time moved earlier and then later again over time.
Only recently is there more of a schedule for naps. At daycare she tends to eat and sleep at the same general times. At home on the weekends we just watch her cues.
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ummm....11 months? Lol. Harris never took a "nap time" until about 7 months and that was just the beginning of good naps. Prior to that he was a 20-40 minute napper, 4-5 times a day (where ever he fell, it seemed: play mat, car seat, swing, someone's arms, etc.). Around 7-7.5 months he started showing need for a couple longer naps (45-90 minutes each) and that stayed steady until a couple weeks go when he went to one nap. It was difficult to schedule his 2-naps-a-day every day of the week since one was mid morning, right after breakfast; and the other was mid-afternoon, long after lunch. If I needed to run errands, he didn't give me much time, so often one nap would still end up being in the car. We worked out a better schedule as far as that went over time, and probably by 9 months we had a good rhythm. Now that he's on one nap, it's even easier. And his schedule for the whole day is pretty well set between meals and naptime.
Aside from naps, we didn't really stick to a "schedule" as far as the clock is concerned until we were well into solid meals; probably around 8 months. If he slept late, he slept late. If he got hungry I'd deal with it. Now he and I have it down to a science with meals and snacks.
As far as bed time, we started that when he told us to. It was quite clear around 3 months old that he was wanting to go to bed earlier and earlier at night. We set a bedtime at 7pm and that worked for a couple months or so, then he was pushing it to 8pm (also because he was sleeping that tiny bit longer in the morning so I enjoyed the extra hour or so). Now "bedtime" is between 7:30-7:45 (when we start the bedtime routine) and he's almost always in bed before 8:30.