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Babies: 3 - 6 Months
Help me with baby schedule please!
Hi ladies,
After reading all the recent posts about baby sleeping through the night,
drinking 4 oz or more, sleeping in his own crib, etc... I'm starting to
feel that I'm not up to par on what everyone's achieving... so help me
and tell me what am I doing wrong? I can't seem to get LO on a schedule,
and he's always hungry before his 3 hour timeframe but refuses to eat
more than 3oz when most babies are drinking 5 oz or more (he weighs 12lbs)
LO is 9 weeks old. He is breastfed during the day and during the nights, but gets a bottle right before bedtime (2 oz breastmilk + 2 oz formula). His 24 schedule is roughly like this:
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9PM - bath, 4oz bottle (which he only manages to finish 3 oz at the most), rock in my arms and then transferred to his snuggle nest placed in a co sleeper next to our bed
10PM - he should
technically be asleep, sometimes he is still a little awake and we
rocked him back to sleep (he usually wakes up during the transfer from
arms to bed)
1am + 4am + 7am +10am = he wakes every 3 hours hungry and sucks on breast for about 10 minutes then falls right back asleep. He never sucks more than 15 minutes and he's usually asleep on the boob.
1PM - he's awake for 1- 2 hours playing, cooing and wants to be carried
2pm +4pm + 6pm + 8pm - breastfed for 20 minutes, sometimes play for 30 mins, then naps for 2 hours every session
9PM - bedtime!
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Re: Help me with baby schedule please!
Schedules for babies rarely work, especially one so young. (Note:I know some people manage to get their babies on a schedule.) Something always happens to ruin it; teething, colds, growth spurts, learning new milestones...
DD is 4 months old, and has just started drinking 3oz of pumped milk at a time. Sometimes she wants to eat every 2 hours, sometimes she waits 3, 4, or even 5. And sleeping through the night is considered to be 5 hours, which some babies don't do until after 6 months.
If I try to get DD to go to bed at 9, she will stay up until 11. If I try to put her down at 11, she goes right to sleep. If I give her (or DS, who is now 2) a bath right before bed, they will be awake for at least another hour; they both get energized during it, not sleepy.
I would recommend reading a book called Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems by Ferber. (Note: I am not suggesting letting LO CIO. I am suggesting that you read on the science of sleep so you know how much LO should get, why they should get it, and what sleep associations are.) When LO is 6 months old or so, you can create a real schedule and do some sleep training.
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to be over, it's about learning how to dance in the rain." -Unknown
Married 3-1-08 | Nathan 11-24-08 | Kaelyn 11-30-10 | Alicia 8-17-13
Well, first off, your still a few weeks shy of 3 months, so you can't compare your LO to others on this board- babies change so fast and there's a huge difference between 2 months and 4 months. IMO there's not much you can do about STTN, I think babies just do it when thier ready- it could be tonight, it could be at 2 years old. As long as LO is gaining weight, then there is no reason he should be drinking anymore than what he is- most babies take what they need. I transitioned LO to the RNP in his room at 12 weeks, the crib at 15 weeks.
As far as the schedule goes, it's a little early- around the 3 month mark is when you can start to get them on schedule, but even then you can't really force it. For the most part LO eats every 3 hours, but sometimes we have a rough day and it's only 2 hours- you just have to go with the flow!