DD 2 is 2 months and it's very loose and by her cues. Since she's not in daycare yet I don't bathe her every night.
Most nights she starts in the swing then I move her to the crib then she ends in our bed during early morning wake up.
-
T has just started falling into a routine on his own. We've always had a schedule about his feeding since the day he came home from the hospital - he eats every 3 hours (except at night) - so I think that helped? At 12 weeks (today!), he has real naps at 10 AM and 1 PM and goes to bed at 7 PM. He cat naps a little surrounding that, but has at least 45 minutes of awake time after every meal. He eats on a 3-6-9-12 schedule. We are loosely doing Moms on Call, I suppose (read the book, but didn't do everything, as he just got into his crib).
-
We started a bedtime routine at 2 months - it was the best thing ever as he took to it well and we got our evenings back.
Daytime we didn't have naps at set times until he moved to 2 naps at 6 mo, and had no kind of feeding routine whatsoever until we switched to FF at 7 months
-
My DD is also 2 months. we don't have a specific routine for her but do for DS, who is two, so she kinda just tags along while i go through his routine. once he's in bed (7:30ish) i swaddle her and nurse her to sleep. she lays on the boppy on the couch with me until i go to bed, around 10:30, and i transfer her to the rnp in my room.
-
Between 3-4 mos
-
No schedule yet at 2 months.
-
I think around 6-8 weeks.
-
8-10 weeks old
-
It's worked for us to continue by cues even now at 5+ months, but he's fallen into some of his own routine, as others said, and is especially predictable with bedtime and wake-up. Naps still vary a bit. I think around 4 months we started a bedtime routine (book, song, pacifier, etc), but we do it at whatever time his nighttime sleepy cues hit rather than by the clock. This unpredictability drives my mother and a few friends crazy, but a strict schedule would be way harder for us.
As long as LO's happy, growing, and well-rested, and you are staying sane yourself, I think you can do it however works for you!
-
As soon as he got his days/nights sorted out. It was more for me, than him but he was alreay loosely on the schedule anyway.
-
We started scheduling between 4-5 weeks, which helped us have a template to strive for during the 6 week growth spurt, 2nd Wonder Week leap, and 8 week growth spurt hell spiral. We are just over the 8 week spurt and LO is starting to get into the groove. We now have 7 feedings a day, 4 naps, 730ish bedtime, and clusterfeeds at 9pm and 11pm-ish. He has just started STTN the last 2 days and I'm so happy, although one MOTN waking wasn't that bad, which he got to around 7 weeks.
-
Wait, there is an 8 week growth spurt hell? I JUST had 1 good day at 6.5 weeks, and I was hoping it would be smoother from here on.
We loosely started a bedtime and wakeup routine last week. Bedtime is between 7-8pm, wash, change, feed, sleep. Wakeup time is between 7-8am wash, change, feed, awake time, nap. For the washes we do bath time maybe every other day. In the mornings and non-bath days I just wipe her hands and face with a washcloth.
It wasnt until about 2 days ago that the routine has been consistent since she is a terrible sleeper.
-
We are at 8 weeks and have no schedule..and I'm starting to get antsy about it! I feel like he needs to be on one by the time he goes to his babysitters in 4 weeks but I have no idea where to start. He's still so unpredictable! We do follow EASY right now, there just isn't any set time on it. We also do a bedtime routine but I haven't seen that do much.
-
I initiated parts of his routine around 3 months (at least a set bed time) and we got to doing the full routine after daycare started, around 4 months.
^ ETA. His routine has been disrupted with illness and daylight savings, but overall we stick to it!
-
With LO1, we had a strict routine by 8 weeks. With LO2 - nothing yet at 3.5 weeks.
-
Bedtime routine? First night home from hospital (although it has evolved of course).
Daytime routine (but not schedule): 8 weeks.
We are now almost 6 months and our days are still unpredictable. she wakes at different times every day and naps for varying lengths so while we have a routine (wake play eat sleep, repeat), we don't have any particular times. I'm looking forward to that!
-
i started trying around 8 weeks in anticipation of going back to work at 12 weeks. "trying" is the key word here.
-
3 months. We started a routine. Baths didn't count in that, though b/c we only bathe every other night.
Reply
Subscribe to our newsletter
- Google Plus
- Stumbleupon
- Twitter
- Facebook
- Pinterest
- Favorite0
17 comments