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I've heard that it's much harder to keep a schedule with #2 since you have to keep up the activity with #1. I think #2 is just going to have to be more flexible because you won't stay home a lot like you may have when #1 was a newborn.

I'd say we had a consistent bedtime for my LO almost from day 1. We were lucky in that she has always liked going to bed for the night. However, naps are a different story and we have gone in and out of phases where she was consistent and then not.

That was at 9 weeks

@Rubies: I am so uptight with Eli's routine. Example- we are not bringing him over to my parents for chinese new year dinner because it's too late for him (dinner is at 8 and his bedtime is 6)... I'll make it up by bringing him to see them during the day haha

the only time we took him out later than his bedtime was when we had his 100 day banquet... it turned out OK because he just slept the whole time in his carseat... but I definitely would not mess up his schedule ever if i have control over it

@reggie: I know this posting was about a month ago but I was wondering what your baby's sleep schedule was like? Or what your strict sleeping habits where like? My LO right now is 4 weeks and we don't really have him on a strict schedule. He basically sleeps and eats whenever he pleases. I try to wake him up to feed every 2-3 hours in the day time (also with more frequent feeds anywhere from 6pm-10pm) and at night I'll let him sleep until he wakes to feed (anywhere from 2-4.5 hours). As a new mom, I'm still learning/figuring out my baby's cues and trying different things. Any advice would be great!

We were pretty strict from the beginning, but we could be, because we only had one child and I was staying at home. We always woke him from naps if he slept past a certain point in the afternoon and pretty much always did a night time routine.