Parenting Techniques

aaturnwald · November 2012

I'm just curious on what everyone does for LO throughout the day. I mostly go off of what little one needs. Feed when hungry, sleep till she wakes.. Usually after an hour or so after she's been up I try to get her down, knowing she needs a nap.

Does anyone else seem to "wing" it, or who is all following BabyWise or other methods? I have been debating trying something like Baby Wise, just not sure if will make much of a difference know that she is 12 weeks. Just curious what everyone else is doing!

Flamingemu · November 2012

I am pretty much winging it too. She has pretty much fallen into a routine and is a generally happy baby so I am not messing with it at this point.

CdnFarmGirl08 · November 2012

I'm pretty much winging it! If he's tired, I put him down. Whenever he wakes up we spend some time playing, interacting etc. If I need to do some things, he plays on his playmat by himself. Then I usually feed him and repeat!

I go out with him fairly often to run small errands- I try to get out at least every other day.

kbbgg · November 2012

I'm doing what you're doing.
Boy H is starting to make his own "schedule" and I follow his cues.
I'm super fortunate I don't go back to work until next year; so if I had to get him ready for daycare I might be trying something different.

km3 · November 2012

We're winging it as far as a schedule goes. We just go off what DS needs - reading cues and cries for sleepy, gas, burps, and hungry. Dunstan Baby Language combined with visual cues help us figure out what he needs.

He seems to have made his own schedule since he usually wakes up around the same time in the morning, needs a long morning and afternoon nap, and goes down for the night around the same time.

kegallagh · November 2012

I don't follow any strict scheduling techniques, but I do try to stick to a familiar routine. Basically we do the idea of EASY but more like EAESY because LO likes to comfort nurse briefly before falling asleep. He does go down awake though. I've adjusted our routines according to his cues as he's grown older.

tinyhumantoe · November 2012

I do a structured wing-it. I read 20 pages of the baby whisperer book, so I'm an expert.

I use the EASY from that book. Eat, Activity, Sleep, You-time.

She wakes and eats, I let her food settle 10 min, play with her for 20-30 (activity mat, book, songs), walk around with her during 10-15 min of one-handed chores, swaddle, nap. Then I work while she naps or awkwardly sits there staring at the wall for an hour.

The only time I deviate from this is our last feeding - at around 8:30 I don't do any stimulating activity after that, I just let her sit on my lap to let the food settle. Then we go up and read a book with dim lights, swaddle, walk around in the dark for a few, and bedtime.

Oh, and when she wakes at 430/530am, no activity, just feed, and sooth, and put her back down to sleep.

cbrookegrow · November 2012

Just winging it here, honestly I'm so routine oriented it surprises me how lax I am when it comes to all things E. People criticize me that I don't have him on a schedule and I consider starting one, but then I wonder if going with the flow is what has helped make him such an easy baby. It's like I'm afraid to mess with a good thing, lol!

I have a small business from home, only worked one weekend this month, but I'm sure if I still worked full time I would consider a routine a necessity.

ETA: commas, stupid mobile bumping left out parenthesis!

hmp1 · November 2012

I feed on demand but he pretty much follows the EASY routine on his own. Same with my first son. I have read/heard too many bad things about Baby Wise to bother reading it. The nurse in our childbirth class said it was a terrible book because too many people do it wrong or too early. She did not support new moms reading that book.

kristyand · November 2012

I do what you do. Try to get her to sleep before an hour if she shows sleepy signs, but if no sleepy signs we go a max of 70 mins. Except for the last awake time, that one usually ends up to be an hour and a half. But otherwise, just watch her and do what she seems to need.

aaturnwald · November 2012

I'm glad I'm not alone in the "winging" it dept. Things are usually pretty consistent and we try to go to bed around the same time every evening. She seems to only do the same thing for 2-3 days then it's a new pattern. Just keeps us on our toes!

MarisaKathleen · November 2012

We mostly wing it, but our DD is on a really good schedule. She goes to bed around 7/730pm, I have to wake her up at 645 to go to the sitter, then she takes a nice nap in the middle of the afternoon. While she's awake we tend to favor the EASY method.

In terms of sleeping, we didn't do sleep training--I read BabyWise and a modified version and was planning on doing my own version of it. LO sleep trained herself. She's been STTN since 7 weeks from 7p-4a when my DH gets up for work, but now that we have the white noise on in there, she's sleeping much better.

xoexpat · November 2012

I read so many parenting books while I was pregnant that by the time the babies arrived I couldn't remember what was what. I think with twins you are either hyper-organized and super strict with schedules or you are in survival mode. I'm just trying to get by. We are planning an international move next week and with the travel and time difference, I figure I would have to start all over again anyway, so I'm not giving myself an extra stressor until it's necessary.

britt1217 · November 2012

My LO does the EAESY routine as well!! She likes that little bit of nursing before she goes to sleep. I thought mine was the only one....lol.

KarBear · November 2012

Flamingemu:
I am pretty much winging it too. She has pretty much fallen into a routine and is a generally happy baby so I am not messing with it at this point.

This.

damabo80 · November 2012

Winging it here as well. Even if I were to try to get him on a "schedule", since his needs change every few days in these early months, I'd continually have to change up his schedule to meet his needs.

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