What are your routines????Sleep..

Hi all!

What type of routines are you in? Ie ...what times are babies awake and how long etc and sleeps how long....Say from 6am to 10pm on one day???

And what are your feed/sleep/settle methods you have luck with???

Oohh Kelly i am glad you asked this - Ethan was up all day yesterday from 7am to about 8pm with only about an hours sleep all day.

In the Kaz Cooke book - Taming Toddlers - they recommend at 3 months feeding baby, playing with them for bout half an hour then putting them to bed to sleep and so on. Once u get to night add a bath in there so they know its bedtime for the night soon! They also recommend feeding them at about 10.30pm i cant do this coz Ella is to sleepy and wont drink lol i dont mind getting up if i have to at 3am

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Ok, so I should tell you that my routine gets knocked for six for weeks at a time but still she has one that is best for her (and me!) but I'll name both for ya!
And remember that Olivia is 5mnths and sleeps to that age group.
Routine #1
wake up 7am
sleep 9am
wake up 11am
sleep 1pm
wake up 2.30pm
sleep 4.30pm
wake up 5pm or 5.30pm
down for the night at 7.30 or 8pm
Routine #2
wake up 6am
sleep 8am
wake up 10am
sleep 12pm
wake up 2pm
sleep 4pm
wake up 4.30 -5pm
down for the night at 7.30 - 8pm
Factors like lack of food, lack of sleep, sickness and teething interrupt them and switch them back and forth every other day but I don't mind!
Sometimes Olivia has days where she will only sleep for half hour stints but will still stay up for 2 hour slots at a time.
I also have a Punket "sleep and play" guide that tells you how much sleep bubbah should be having at what age and what age appropriate toys they should be using if you're interested!

Our routine is:
I wake her at 7am - she feeds within 10 mins, has halftime burp & nappy change, then she goes straight back to sleep.

I then wake her at 10am - she has her bottle (always a halftime burp), nappy change & dressed, playtime with Mum, then I'll put her in her bouncer or under her playgym until she starts to get grizzly/tried. She's usually up for about 2 hours here.

She then wakes herself around 1pm-2pm. I try to drag it out to as close to the 4 hourly feeds as I can, so this might mean playing with her on her change table etc until 2pm. We always do the same "wake up, feed, haltime burp & change nappy, feed, play, bed". Again she's usually up for approx. 2hrs.

Depending on what I've been doing during the day (i.e. at home or out) she occassionally stays up from her 2pm-6pm feeds with a few "cat naps" but she always goes down for a sleep between 6.45pm and 8pm. This is great as it gives us "Adult time" and a quiet dinner.

Bathtime is 8.30pm approx, depends if she wakes up earlier or is cranky. She has a bath & massage, bit of quiet time with us (just cuddles on the couch), then her bottle at 9.30.

Bedtime is 10pm and she sleeps through until I wake her at 7am.
A lot of people say this is too late to have her up, but it works great for us and most importantly she's sleeping through the night. It's also a great routine for when I go back to work next Tuesday (SO not looking forward to leaving her! ).
At the moment she's only having a bottle at 7am and back to bed. But when I'm working she will have her bottle then we'll leave straight after to drop her off at my Mum's and I'll go to work from there. Dunno what we'll do when she starts to have food for brekkie?!?! Might just have to get up even earlier

I haven't ever asked my plunket nurse what I should be doing with regards to feeding, but perhaps I should because my baby seems to be doing things differently to everyone else?? I have always been on demand feeding and am not sure when/if I am supposed to be setting up some sort of feeding schedule or if she will just start drinking less on her own?

Alyssa always demands a feed after a nappy change (she will not stop grizzling if she has a wet or dirty nappy so I have to change it as soon as I notice)and most of the time it can be every hour or so during the day with just short 15 minute catnaps in between. Sometimes she will have a 3-4 hour sleep during the day but not always.

The only routine we have is that she has a bath at 7pm and then goes to sleep at 9pm. She will wake up for a feed around 5am and then back to sleep until about 9am, then she's definitely up.

Toni_akl wrote: Bedtime is 10pm and she sleeps through until I wake her at 7am. A lot of people say this is too late to have her up, but it works great for us and most importantly she's sleeping through the night.

*cough*bollocks!*cough*

We do pretty much the same thing, although we finish up for the night about half an hour later (10.30)... and we'd usually be up that late anyway, baby or not !

*edit*

Meaning to say, you're doing really well and I agree 100% with you

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