Can you share your day/night routine?

Re: Can you share your day/night routine?

• sitastar

  May 2012

  I really just follow baby's cues.  She is up at 730/8am to eat, then I swaddle he and put her back down while I shower/eat breakfast and maybe throw in a load of laundry. She is up again at 930/10 to eat.  Afterwards, I usually play with her a bit (read, sing, activity mat) if she is actively engaged. Sometimes she will fall asleep TFT after eating and if so I let her sleep. After she is down again (usually about 45 min later) I do some housework and read.  She is up around noon and I repeat the whole process.  I will swaddle her if she is yawning and can't fall asleep... I pop her in the swing while I am cleaning, and sometimes I let her sleep on me.  We usually do bathtime at 830pm.  We bathe, I sing to her while doing a bit of baby massage with lavender lotion, and then I feed her in our room with lowered lights. After bathing her we don't interact with her too much, keep the lights low as well as our voices.  She is always swaddled at night, but generally I don't swaddle for naps unless she is getting over tired and can't fall asleep.  The bath routine seems to really help!  (she sleeps 5 hrs a night)

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• gwennec member

  May 2012

  We are not really in a consistent routine yet, but here is what we have so far. I try to follow her cues, but she has been going through a growth spurt the last few days and fighting naps, so who knows how we will look when we come out of this. The best you can do is what you are doing, keeping track of what she is doing and see what schedule emerges. I bf and supplement with formula as needed during the day. She has been starving lately, so I just follow her cues. She is also a lot more tired in the morning and can't go as long being awake.

  But here is what I have been seeing on a good day. She takes 3 naps a day and sleeps around 11 hours at night with a few wake ups thrown in:
  5:30-6am - wake up, bf
  6:30-7am - bouncy seat/swing or just carry in arms while getting breakfast for DD1
  7am - nap between 30-60min
  8am ish - bf when wake up and give 1-2oz formula if still hungry, play in bouncy seat/swing/playmat as long as will tolerate, hang out with DD1 and basically watch her
  9/9:30am - if only took short nap at 7am down at 9am, otherwise 9:30am, nap lasts about 1 hour
  10/10:30am - 12pm - bf when wake up and supplement as needed, try to get out of the house, run errands, go on walk
  12pm - bf/formula - I usually give her another feeding around lunchtime b/c she seems to be starving and also she tends to take her afternoon nap as longest at this point, so want her to be ready to go down and not wake up hungry after 30 min
  12:30/1pm - nap and hope it lasts at least 2 hours
  3/4pm - wake up and eat
  5:30pm - start bedtime routine, bath every other day, bf/supplement and lay down to bed by 6pm on a good night (last night she went to bed at 6pm and then was up again at 7pm b/c she was so hungry and needed another 2oz)
  9:30-10pm - dreamfeed, bf only
  1-3am - wake up anytime during this time, bf only
  5:30-6am - wake up and start all over again

  Also, I swaddle for all naps and bedtime (escape proof swaddle is only thing she will not bust out of). And she sleeps in her RnP with white noise machine and blackout blinds.
  
  

  
   
  
  

  

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