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Schedule ?
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Hey ladies I'm new around here...i am a sahm with a 16m old boy amd we just confirmed we are gonna be having another lo 2 days shy of his 2nd birthday... The only thing I keep thinking about is how am I gonna get them on the same schedule , I know it won't happen in the beginning, but like 4 months in last time we had an awesome routine, does it just work itself out, do their naps eventually sync and bedtimes routines do the same? I just love how smoothly things are running and am wondering if I have any chance of it being like this again?!
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Re: Schedule ?
I know a lot of 2u2 who's LO's are on opposite nap schedules. It sounds awful. I worked my butt of to get the kids on the same schedule and it's paid off big time. In the very beginning, I just did whatever, since my 2nd had to nap in his swing anyway. Around 4-5 months old I started with naps in his crib and I would try and keep him up for one of them so that at least 1 nap a day would overlap with my oldest. At around 9-10 months my 2nd dropped his 2nd nap and I would keep him up until his sister's nap so that they were on the same time. It's usually when he would want to go down anyway.
Now, it's very consistent and they are the exact same schedule. It's been this way for at least 6 months now. I am a SAHM also, and if I didn't get that hr or so of silence a day I would surely go insane. Now my kids wake up at around 8-9am, they nap at 12:30pm (DS wakes up around 2, DD around 3) then bedtime is at 8pm. I absolutely love this schedule.
I will say this, though. I go back and forth on whether it's better when the boys are on the same schedule or not. On days when they nap at the same time, I get a nice 2 or 3 hour break to myself. But, when they nap opposite, I get a 6 hour chunk of time where I only have one kiddo to deal with. Plus, when they nap together, they get their prenap cranky period at the same
time and i have to put them down at the same time, which SUCKS. Then, they wake up hungry at the same time.
I go back and forth on which days I prefer.
I'm in a different situation b/c I work FT and my kids are in DC. Right now it's tough b/c DD naps about 1-3 or 2-4 on the weekends. DS is exhausted from not napping good at DC all week so he takes 2 naps on the weekends. I feel like there's someone asleep from like 11-4 every Sat and Sun, which makes it impossible to get out to do something fun as a family. I can see the light at the end of the tunnel though b/c I know DS will be dropping down to 1 nap soon. I'm looking forward to them napping at the same time so I can get stuff done around the house.
I think its easiest in the first few months (when babies nap so frequently) and then they diverge their schedules for a few months, and eventually will get on the same schedule.
Schedule:
DS1 wakes at 7:30; DS2 wakes between 7:30 and 8:00
Nap for both boys at 1:00 - 3:00
DS2 goes to bed at 8pm and DS1 goes to bed at 9pm
Even before DS2 was only taking one nap, his first nap was 930-11 and he went down again between 1 and 1:30.
At the beginning, baby just comes along and naps on the go. Around 3-4 months, I needed to start regular naps for DD. They would both get up by 7am, then DD would go down for nap at 830-930 or 10. Both had lunch 1130/12 ish, then both napped at 1 (maybe earlier for DD if she was especially tired). DD would get up at 3, DS until 4. DD to bed at 6/630, DS at 7.
We did this until DD was about 14 months, then they both had the same schedule on one nap. When DS turned 3, he dropped his nap, now DD naps from 130-3 /330, DS does "quiet time" in his room from 130-3, reading books, playing with cars, etc.