Need some serious help!!

STint520 · February 2013

Trying to figure out a schedule for my twins. They are 5 months old and I have never been so confused about feeding, napping, bedtime, etc. We just started solids (trying to do it at the dinner time feeding), but then I am not sure if we should be giving them a bottle at around 9-930. I want to try to get them on some sort of schedule. Can you please share yours. How old are your twins, when do they wake up, how many bottles/ounces do they take, how many naps and for how long, when do you feed their solids, what time do you put them to bed, when do you bath?

I feel like a terrible mom!

LottaLattes · February 2013

I started logging what I was doing and a natural schedule kind of emerged. I used the timing from No Cry Sleep Solution.

honeybee72 · February 2013

My kids are in daycare, so take this for what it's worth...

My girls are just shy of 4 months and we've asked the caregivers to work "on demand" with them for feeding and napping. They take 6 oz bottles and will have 3 - 4 between drop-off at 7 and pick up at 5:30.

They seem to be morning nappers and don't nap very long in the afternoon. I'm not sure if there are more children/more activity in the afternoon or if that's just a natural tendency. When I was home with them, though, I also found this to be more or less true.

They generally get a bottle within an hour of getting home. Initially, we'll be doing the solids at that time. We do bath night every other night. We start anywhere between 6:45 and 7:30, depending on the cues they're giving us. Unless they've just eaten, they get a bottle after bath and then are down for the night - between 7:15 and 8. One of ours has figured out rolling to her tummy and will give us a good 7 or 8 hours of solid sleep. The other does ok at about 4 - 5 hours and will take about 4oz of a bottle before going back to sleep.

I get them up between 6 and 6:30 for daycare.

jessibel00 · February 2013

6 months old.

7:30-8 wake and eat

10 feed then nap

11 wake and play

2:00 feed and nap

3:30ish wake and play

5:00 feed and cat nap

5:30ish wake and play

6:30 dinner of pur?es then play

7:30 bedtime routine of bath, feed and snuggles. Down for bed about 8.

Wake up to feed again about 3:30am and then right back down.

karo112 · February 2013

Babywise.

Swear by it!

angelfire02 · February 2013

karo112:
Babywise.

Swear by it!

TOTALLY agree! It saved my sanity when we stuck to the EASY schedule. Now at 9 months this is our schedule:

630/700: Wake up (don't get them out of their crib until 7)

7:00: 7oz bottle

8:00: Cereal + Fruit

9:00-10/10:30: Nap

11:00: Fruit+Veggie+Protein

12:45: 4-5oz bottle

1:00-2/3:00: Nap

4:00: Veggie+Protein+Cereal

5:30:Bath

6:45: 4-5oz Bottle

7:00: Bed

lunatwo · February 2013

Mine are just shy of 8 months but were 6 weeks premature. Our schedule looks like:
7am Bottle 6oz
9am Nap
10am Bottle 6oz
11am Nap
Noon Cereal
1pm Bottle 6oz
3pm Nap
4pm Bottle 6oz
5pm Pureed fruit or veg
7pm Bottle 5oz
8pm Bed

Breezy8407 · February 2013

Both in daycare and at 6 months I think it was close to this:

6am - 6-8oz bottle

8-8:30 - 6-8oz bottle

nap - 30-45 minutes

11:30-12pm - 6-8oz bottle and lunch of solids at daycare (cereal and veggie puree)

nap - 30 - 60 minutes

2:30-3pm - 6-8oz bottle

short nap on the drive home from daycare

5-5:30pm - dinner of solids (cereal and veggie)

bathtime

6:30pm - 6-8oz bottle

7:00pm - bedtime

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Right now at ~10 months

6:00am - 8 oz bottle (they usually wake up before this and talk in their cribs until we are ready to get them to feed them)

8:00am - breakfast at daycare - banana, cereal, other fruit puree maybe some puffs

9:30-10am - 6 oz bottle

nap

11:30-12pm -lunch at daycare - finger foods, cereal, veggie puree

nap

2:00pm - 6 oz bottle

short nap on the drive home

bathtime

5:30-6pm - dinner - finger foods, cereal, veggie puree

6:30-7pm - 8 oz bottle

7:00pm ish - bedtime

yinyang124 · February 2013

You're not a bad mom!

My boys are just shy of 4 months actual, 2.5 adjusted. We are EBFing and not doing solids yet. We do everything on demand but follow a general eat, play, sleep routine.

They wake up between 7-8am and eat then we play for about an hour. We put them down for a nap as soon as they get fussy or start yawning. Usually they will nap for an hour-1.5, but lately they have been catnapping. Repeat all day. 730-8 starts bedtime and they are always asleep by 9 at the latest. They aren't STTN yet, but nighttime wake ups kind of vary for us.

We only bathe them twice a week. Warm washcloth the rest of the nights. We signal wake up time and bed time by giving them a body massage with lotion.

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