It looks like it's been a couple months since the last "what's your bedtime routine like now?" post... So here goes.
My specific question is: how much time is there between your baby's last feeding of the day and bedtime?
We are starting a big transition in our house next week, in that our LO is starring day care and our family-member-caretakers aren't staying with us anymore (my mom and DHs mom alternated staying with us for 2-3 week periods to watch little one after my leave ended up until a week ago). Because of all that help, we haven't really needed to create any sort of "schedule" and have been following his lead. We're also trying to get out of the RNP and into the crib...
So with daycare he will start having to wake up at the same time everyday, but I have no idea what bedtime will look like, especially wrt timing of the last feeding. Right now, it could be anywhere from an hour to 5 minutes between last bottle and bedtime. I worry that if it's too long then he'll get hungry again - does anybody have some wisdom to share here?
Re: Timing of "Bedtime" & last feeding?
If he's going to bed later than you'd like right now for when he wakes, length he sleeps at night etc, you could work on moving up his bedtime by half hour intervals. That's what we did with DD because while I was out on Mat leave (before I decided to SAH), she was going down when we were (10-11 pm).
But these past 2 weeks we've gotten on a great schedule I'd like to try and stick to. At 5:30 we give her 2tbs of veggie and 1 oz of cereal. Then we play until 6:45. Bath and pjs and I nurse her for about 15 min. Then she's usually passed out and sleeps until 5am, I nurse her then and she'll sleep until 8:15am.
So in the am I'm planning on nursing her when she wakes up at 5am and putting her back down like I have been and having my mom come at 8am and have my husband put her in the car. Hopefully she keeps up the great sleep pattern she's found.
Baby G born 6/6/14, 37 weeks 1 day due to preeclampsia. 5lb12oz 19"
#2 due Christmas 2016.
Last night he had two 4 ounce bottles (midnight and 3:30), then today he has 4 ounces at 8, 2 more at 8:15; 3 ounces at 11; 1 ounce at 2 then 3 more 3pm; and finally about 4 ounces 6. Then he went to town on some broccoli while we ate dinner, he was so excited about it, it was hilarious.
We're back home tomorrow after two weeks of holiday travel... So hopefully he can get into some sort of "normal"
Bath for baby at 7 pm, followed by lotion, diaper, and jammies in a dimly lit room.
Into dark master bedroom for nursing, during which baby usually falls asleep (working on the drowsy but awake thing...unsuccessfully).
Asleep in RNP by 7:30. On week nights I go to bed then too. Currently posting from under the covers