Anyone still not have their baby in a routine?

[tuppance]

My LO has a bath, then quiet time and feed (always to sleep), but it still take him up to three hours to fall asleep. He then wakes up at completely random times too.

Has anyone else's bubba not established a routine at 3 months? Or, how did you get your bubba into a routine; did it just happen naturally?

Thank you for any experience / tips you have

 

[Ozzieshunni]

Nope, don't believe in routines until 6 months. I think it's easier to create a routine once they are eating. LO kinda has his own routine and I tend to do his bath around the same time each day. He's usually up by 8:30/9:00 in the morning and he set that for himself

 

[Thumper]

At 3 months LO had made himself a slight rountine, butno way was it set. We followed his lead and now he has fallen into a routine of his own making We always tried to stick to a rough bedtime though and followed a PJ, story, feed, sleep routine which has changed with his developement i.e. now includes bath as we now BLW.
As long as you are both happy then stick with what you are doing. Follow his lead. Sleep is very important though and I did have to really work on getting LO to nap at times as he's so reluctant to sleep being so nosey and active!

At 3 months LO was going to sleep at 9 but not long after he started to get tired a lot earlier and it went to 7 very quickly. He still goes to bed by 7 at the latest.

 

[babypowder]

We don't have a routine really but my LO is not setting his own. However we do have tea at 5pm and bath at 6pm then sleep any time between 6:45pm and 8pm so a sort of routine maybe? There's no hurry but I do think they sleep better with routine xx

 

[tuppance]

Thanks ozzieshunni!

I keep on reading / hearing about all these routines set up and I just have no clue what my LO will do from one moment to the next! I might just wait for it to happen and just merrily plod along follow LOs lead x

 

[Snowball]

Louie has to be in a sort of routine (although wether he lives by it is a completely different thing ) as I have older children I have to get to school in the mornings etc.

He gets up about 7am and usually (please don't let me jinx this!) he's off into a deep sleep around 8-9pm and he's more or less out till the following morning... excluding his 4am dreamfeed.

 

[bump#1]

We have a routine in the sense of bath bottle bed. But we let LO dictate the time in which we do it. As soon as he appears sleepy we start the routine. We don't try and force a time on him. He tends to always get tired between 7-8 so is usually in bed a sleep by 9max.

 

[tuppance]

Thanks Thumper - my LO is a nightmare to get to sleep! Reading a story is a good idea, I will start doing that.

Babypowder - that sounds like the beginning of a routine to me. Hoorah!

 

[xcharx]

Nope Kiara has no routine... I follow her lead x

 

[Ozzieshunni]

Thanks ozzieshunni!

I keep on reading / hearing about all these routines set up and I just have no clue what my LO will do from one moment to the next! I might just wait for it to happen and just merrily plod along follow LOs lead x

That's what I do! I was worried at first about it, but have just decided to go with the flow. As long as he's happy, I'm happy

 

[Seity]

We follow our LO's lead. We've never followed a routine. I don't believe they are necessary and I'm not the type of personality to be able to stick to one anyway.

 

[tuppance]

Selty - I'm not the type if person to have a routine; my baby came two weeks late and no one I knew was surprised by that

I think I'm just going to do what I do best and go with the flow and stop listening to everyone in my baby group!

Thanks everyone for your replies - I feel a lot better now!

 

[Ozzieshunni]

People always think they know best for YOUR baby.

 

[lindseymw]

I didn't implement a bedtime routine until Jacob settled into one himself. He started being ready for bed at 8pm, so our routine is 7.15ish he has a bath, gets in his PJs then a feed & into bed.

I wouldn't bothered with a routine if he wasn't ready for one.

 

[moomin momma]

We follow our LO's lead. We've never followed a routine. I don't believe they are necessary and I'm not the type of personality to be able to stick to one anyway.

ditto. I don't really get why people would want to have a strict routine - surely it makes going out and doing stuff etc really hard. I know mums who can't take heir babies to any baby groups because their baby HAS to nap at 10am. Sounds restricting to me.

LO is 6 months next week and, apart from bedtime which is 6:30pm, she eats and sleeps as and when she wants to, and she's thriving. Once she's started weaning and has got to the point where she eats meals then obviously the feeds might fall into more of a routine but I'm not going to force it for the sake of it.