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Can we talk about your 3-4 month old schedule?
My LOs are still sleeping about 18 hours a day and I feel like that is too much. They take 3 or 4 naps a day and sleep anywhere from 1-3 hours at a time. They are also STTN from about 8pm-6am (roughly...sometimes they wake up earlier).
We pretty much wake up in the morning, have a bottle, play for about 30 minutes to an hour and then they go back down for a nap. Rinse, repeat until 7pm bathtime and 8pm bed.
I feel like we have a good routine, but I'm worried that they are sleeping a little too much.
TIA!!
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Re: Can we talk about your 3-4 month old schedule?
I would trust them to know how much they need to sleep. Sometimes I think ours sleep too little, but all I can do is get them down before they are overtired and provide a dark/quiet/peaceful place to sleep. If they don't want to sleep, I can't do much about that at this age.
Ours eat every 3 hours starting at 7am. It takes about half an hour to nurse and then they play for 45-90 minutes before napping again until the next time to eat. Usually the awake time is shortest and nap time is longest in the morning and then they are gradually awake for longer throughout the day. At 7:00p they eat again and then we do bedtime routine and get them down by 8:00p. (We have tried moving it back but it didn't work.) He usually goes down pretty easily - asleep by 8:30 - and she usually fights it and sometimes doesn't sleep until after the 10p feeding. For a while I was convinced that she was overtired every night, but she has been mad/awake between the "bedtime" feeding and next feeding for her whole life no matter how much she naps or how early we try to get her down, so I'm just waiting for her to grow out of it. They sleep from 10:30p-6:30a, except for when we wake to feed at 1a and 4a (to be phased out soon).
I also feel like ours dont sleep enough. They will nap for an hour at most. They sleep consistently from about 9pm-5am, but will not nap in their cribs very well.. A typical day:
5:00am DS wakes up. He gets fed, changed and we attempt to put him back to sleep in his crib. DD wakes up and the same routine for her.
6:00am 8:30am various states of sleeping and waking.
9:00am bottle and "up for the day", playtime
10-10:30 to 12:00pm nap time
12:00pm bottle, playtime
1-3pm multiple crib nap attempts, some successful
3:00pm bottle. playtime
4-6pm naps
6:00pm bottle and playtime
7:15ish-8:30 naps
8:30 bottle, swaddle, and bed for the night
If its bath night, those happen either before or immediately after the 6pm feeding. I am hoping to get the to bed earlier eventually and space bottles out more when we increase oz's / start solids.
Boy/girl twins born at 37w1d and 37w2d
I could have written this exact same post, and was actually thinking about doing so!!
Mine are usually up between 6 and 7am. I hold off feeding them until 7am b/c I have to shower and get ready before DH leaves at 7:15. They are usually up for about an hour after that, then nap for 2 hours... repeat cycle but the naps shorten throughout the day. I guess it looks something like this....
7am: Eat, play for an hour
8-10: Nap
10: Eat, play for an hour
11-1: Nap
1: Eat, play for an hour
2-3:15ish: Nap
3:15: Eat, play for a litte more than an hour
4:30-5: Nap
5-7: Eat, play, bath
7pm: Eat and bed
I rarely can keep them up for more than an hour, except for that last stretch of their day.
I figure they know what their bodies need best, and they are growing so fast right now (born at 5th%, now about 50th%)... so maybe they need more sleep than average. I do plan to ask their pedi at their next checkup.
Your day is almost identical to ours. It's so similar it's a little odd! Haha! Mine were even in the 5th percentile at birth and are now hovering in the 40th. I know they are growing a LOT. I swear some mornings I wake them up and they're bigger than they were when I put them to sleep! Rationally I know that they are sleeping only as much as their little bodies need, but I have to admit that I miss them a lot during the day. That may sound silly, but sometimes I seriously just go in there and look at them while they sleep just because I miss them.
I know how you feel, I feel guilty when they sleep for a long time, like I should be with them or something, even though I know they need the sleep. I check on them constantly, hahaha.
That is crazy how similar our schedules are!!! And yes they are growing like crazy. I looked back at my boys' 1-month photos the other day, and it's scary how small they once were!!!