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can a sleep schedule work at 3 months?

mars8kmars8k member
in May 2015 Moms
my baby girl is1 month old, and her "nights" start at 7 am, honestly i'm fine with it! We both wake up at around 4 pm except for few days when she's fussy.

I go back to work when she's 4 months so i was wondering if i could start putting her on a sleep schedule when she's 3 months will that be too late?
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Re: can a sleep schedule work at 3 months?

  • roundtwoOMGroundtwoOMG member
    Do you mean you plan to keep her sleeping during the day (7-4) until you go back to work? At some point soon I think you should work on getting her sleeping during the night. Even shift workers would say that you almost never fully get used to being awake all night and sleeping all day. Our bodies are meant to sleep at night and even though babies have their days and nights mixed at first they do need to switch eventually.
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  • kateandsiahkateandsiah member
    And I've heard changing the schedule 15 minutes a day works best, so you've got a long ways to shift, I would start when you can so your not rushing it at the end.
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  • Jess3311Jess3311 member
    We started incorporating a schedule when we brought our little boy home. He is adjusting well to it. Not everyday is perfect but it will get better as he gets older. My 4 year old was on a similar schedule when he was a baby and it worked so well for us when I went back to work!
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  • MrsS728MrsS728 member
    edited June 2015
    I've found that my one month old is a routine girl and anything out of the ordinary takes her a day to readjust. For example this weekend my mother watched her.....today she is horrible. She usually gets up at 7:30 and is up until about 10 when she takes a nap until 2 pm and then she's up until Daddy gets home at 6 pm, up around 8 pm and then out like a light for the night from 10 pm until 2-3 am for her feeding. I couldn't get her down for a nap until 3 pm today. Tomorrow she will be fine. 

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  • jmorneau09jmorneau09 member
    We started at like a week. We do the same bedtime routine each night around the same time and then all night time feedings and diaper changes are done in the dark and we keep it quiet. This way he starts to associate night time as a quiet, dark time for sleeping. It's worked out great. It's not always perfect but it's working for the most part. Also keeping the house noisy during the day and quiet at night will help.
    You will get there. I would definitely get started now though rather than waiting till right before you go back to work. Good luck
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