Anybody NOT on a sleep schedule?

rdhmama79 · May 2011

M has a set bedtime, but no set nap times. I've tried setting naptimes, but it has never worked out. I just figure he's not developmentally ready for a schedule yet. I've been tracking and recording his sleep patterns for a couple of months, and I keep trying to implement a schedule, but it has yet to work out. I EBF on demand, and I guess I kind of let him sleep on demand as well.

Is this a problem? I'm sure he will be on a schedule eventually. I've read that naps don't really become established until the 6 month mark. I keep reading the sleep posts about all the ladies setting up their sleep schedules. Am I the only one who doesn't really have one?

PeetiePie · May 2011

We don't have a schedule either. DDs bedtime routine that is usually around the same time each night. Personally, I don't think it's a problem, but I know a lot of people are all about babies having schedules.

DH works 2nd shift - so he's home with her for most of the day and puts her down for a nap when she looks tired (usually an hour after getting up). We have a sitter come for a few hours in the afternoon and she will put DD down for a nap during that time, but afternoon naps have always been a struggle.

mlamping · May 2011

She goes to sleep around 730-8 but the rest of sleep is not scheduled. I cannot ever know when she will nap. she gets tired about 1-130 after eating. She takes a lot of cat naps. that is about all. No schedule yet. I would love to schedule naps, but I cannot yet.

kapereasd · May 2011

I don't think that it is a problem. LO eats when she is hungry and sleeps when she is tired and with the exception of bedtime, there isn't too much consistency. I think she will begin to fall into her own schedule soon - but I plan to let her determine it instead of me determining it for her.

ETA I SAH so it allows me the flexibility. I think it would be different if she was at daycare.

kmares · May 2011

We do not have a sleep schedule. DS takes a nap and goes to bed when he is ready. He usually takes 2-3 naps and usually goes to bed around 8:30 - 9:30.

KissyFishyLips · May 2011

I might be alone on this, but I don't really *want* to have a nap schedule.

Annabelle takes a nap when she's tired. She's generally predictable in that she rarely goes a full 2 hours awake before napping, and I know that if she starts getting cranky out of nowhere and it's been 1-1/2 hrs since her last nap, that's what she needs. But as far as a specific time of day that she naps, it really just depends on what time she woke up that morning, you know?

I use the Baby Timer app on my iPhone to track her feedings/naps/diapers, and so by looking at the timer, I can usually predict what she needs, but I don't proactively do things (give her a bottle, put her down for a nap, etc.) before she gives her cues. If that makes sense...

I used to think I was going to want to do everything by schedule and strict routine (because that's always been my personality), and we tried that in the early weeks. But I've since decided that it's better for our family to have a more flexible baby. Not to mention that she does much better on her own schedule than on the one I tried to enforce.

TBLilyRose · May 2011

We don't really have set times but he usually naps around 9, then noon, then a cat nap in the afternoon.

jhmeans · May 2011

We don't have a sleep schedule either. we do have a bedtime

rdhmama79 · May 2011

Whew! I was starting to think I was all alone! M will take 3 naps a day (morning, mid-day, late afternoon), but the time and duration of the naps varies from day to day. I will be a SAHM until M is a year old, so a schedule didn't really seem vital to me.

momofmanyinthemitten · May 2011

mrschristamiller:
Whew! I was starting to think I was all alone! M will take 3 naps a day (morning, mid-day, late afternoon), but the time and duration of the naps varies from day to day. I will be a SAHM until M is a year old, so a schedule didn't really seem vital to me.

I feel the same way. LO usually takes four 45 min naps each day. She goes to bed at 7:45 and generally wakes up between 5 and 7. She will get tired after being awake for 1.5-2 hrs, so I put her down. Because her wake up time is different each day, her nap times are also different. It doesn't bother me-my only job right now is making sure she's taken care of.

grr_aargh · May 2011

At 5 months, DD is just now starting to set her own sleeping schedule. Is it the same every day? Not quite. But close. Soon enough it'll be predictable.

jolynn326 · May 2011

DD is almost always asleep by 7:30 and up in the morning by 7:00. Her naps are not scheduled, though if we're staying home for the day, she'll generally sleep about the same times.

If I were a SAHM, I think I would be trying to help her into a schedule. Since I'm not, I let my mom and DH do what works for them.

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