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We’ve used the sample schedules with the moms on call book successfully with my older two kids. We just had baby #3 about 3.5 weeks ago and are already trying to introduce the schedule to him as well for purposes of our sanity. It takes awhile to get on the schedule but we keep just feeding and putting down for naps according to the schedule and eventually the baby catches on. I’m happy to try to screen shot the schedule for 4-6 months and post it to your wall.

@LemonJack: no advice, but I’m right there with you. DH and I were talking about this same thing today—schedules and getting her sleeping in her crib. DD has never napped in her crib really and with the situation now it’s a problem. We’re going to try scheduling first and then hope that moving to her crib will be easier once she’s used to consistent nap times. Our plan is to try for naps from 7:30-8:30, 10-11:30/12, 2-3:30/4 and 6-7, which pretty much follows her pattern on good sleep days. It feels like a lot, but she still gets tired after 90 minutes or so of awake time. We get her up at 6:30 and bedtime is 8:30, which is pretty consistent already.

@Shantuck: I’d love a screen shot too if you can.

Is there any rough outline to typical sleep that you can nudge into a stricter schedule? We also felt it was time for our 4.5 mo so we just picked nap times and then started adjusting feedings so he’d eat as soon as he wakes up then again about 20 minutes before we want him to go down.

This is my easiest sleeper by far so I know this is easier said than done but I honestly think just picking nap times is the key and after a couple days they’ll start following your lead on that.

Do you know roughly what the daycare schedule is? I’d try to follow that so it’s not such a big adjustment when you go back.

DS2 is 19 months and I’m trying to stick to his daycare schedule, he’d only been there 6 months.

@Shantuck: Thanks for this. I feel better about DD's wake windows only being ~90 minutes, 2 hours if we push after this since it's pretty much a 3 hour cycle. She's been a sleeper since the beginning so I guess we'll roll with it.

@LemonJack: Yeah, we’ve made no progress at all on naps, but I realized that rocking her to sleep at night could be hurting, so in the past few days have been putting her to bed awake and just staying until she falls asleep and that’s working so far. Hopefully once she can go down alone at night it’ll translate to daytime sleep. We’re in the same position w/swaddling, she sleeps so well, but she’s rolling all the time now so we had to cut it off cold turkey.