Baby routine

Re: Baby routine

• ahare2009 member

  March 2014

  We have similar problems, DS fights to go to bed.  He has no problem during the day or overnight, but come 7:30-8pm when I try to get him to bed he gets super fussy and will not go to sleep.  It had been taking 2-3 hrs to get him to actually go to sleep.  I just went back to work yesterday, so maybe in a few weeks he will be on a better schedule. 

  
  

  I'm a FTM, so I don't know how young is too young for a schedule.  Good luck to you though.

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• MoxyByProxy member

  March 2014

  With my first 2, we had a schedule of chaos, but I'm really trying with E to get some sort of routine.
  
  I've been wondering this same thing is there a point you should just say, ok your not ready for bed and try again later?
  
  1-2 hour battles to go to bed are frustrating.
  

  

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• keags5496 member

  March 2014

  I don't know if I'd call it a battle....I'll put him down in the crib when he's practically asleep and he'll usually start fussing 10 minutes later.  I go back in and sooth and he'll go back out for about 10-15 min again.  I get some stuff done in between, but it seems counter productive to have him taking little cat naps and then needing me to get him to sleep again.  He's great with night time sleep and can settle himself just fine then so maybe he just doesn't want sleep.

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• Soap1 member

  March 2014

  I think you're stressing too much at too young of an age.  I'd just let him do what he wants for those morning feeds and worry about the EASY routine in the afternoons! 
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  

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• TessyMessy member

  March 2014

  My LO usually stays awake after his morning feed (5am) until his next feed (8am). Then he will take a nap for a few hours. Does your LO sleep a long stretch at night? That may be why he is so awake first thing in the morning. I wouldn't be in a hurry to disrupt his rhythm unless it is really interfering with your morning. We just started letting LO soothe himself to sleep-- sometimes it works well and other times we struggle.

  
  

   

   

  
   

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• Codypup member

  March 2014

  DreamingBabies said:

  I pushed bedtime earlier after I found that my daughter was taking forever to put down. I think that she was overly tired and couldn't get settled. @keags5496‌ I wouldn't worry about the nap immediately after the morning bottle, especially if your son can fall asleep without the bottle at other times.

  I ditto the earlier bedtime. I had been pushing for a 9-10pm bedtime, because my hope was that it would give ME a longer stretch of uninterrupted sleep. But LO was clearly exhausted, so we've started pushing her toward bed as soon as she gives a big yawn - usually around 7:30, 8pm. A lot of nights we end up rocking her and holding her until about 9, but she's in and out of sleep during that time. Some nights she's a holy terror, screaming like a banchee and whatnot, so I get the bedtime battle...but my hope is that she'll settle into a better routine as she gets older.

  
  

  I've definitely noticed that putting her to bed earlier does not influence how long she sleeps -- she wakes up around 3:30 or 4 no matter what time we get her to sleep. 

  
  

  As far as the morning nap goes, I think that's relatively normal? My LO goes down for her morning nap about 30 minutes after she eats, and usually sleeps for over an hour. 

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• keags5496 member

  March 2014

  @Stophoney that's a good point.  He give me a 4-5 hour stretch followed by a 3-4 hour stretch consistently so that is a lot of sleep.  Its actually kind of nice to have him awake because I have the time to spend with him while DS1 is in DC and when he sleeps during the later morning I go to the gym and he's none the wiser

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