Routine for a 3 month old?

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Now that my baby is nearly 3 months old and I'll be mostly feeding him formula, I'd really like to establish a daily and bedtime routine. It was impossible when I was mainly breastfeeding as he'd feed on demand and sleep when he was tired with no set times at all.
Already he's eating and sleeping with more regularity.
I was just wondering what others do for a routine with their babies?
 
Our LO feeds generally tend to go - 4am, 7am, 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 7pm then a dream feed at 11pm.

I will try and put her down for a nap around 1.5 hours after each feed. We start her bedtime routine at 7pm where she will have half her bottle, bath, other half then bed and she is down for the night by 8ish

For her 7am bottle she will go back to sleep once she has drunk it and stir around 9:30.
 
Our LO "fell into her routine" pretty much. We tried to do a late feed around 10 for a while that kept her going until 6am. She eventually dropped that feed at 6 weeks and then went from 7-7 which is what she still does. I think they pretty much get into their routine with some encouragement. I think at night it is important that they understand the difference, we give Ella a bath at the same time each night, then her last bottle, make all dim and quiet and then put her to bed with her comforter toy.
 
We feed and do naps on demand. We don't have a set routine (and probably a 3 month old won't easily fall into one), but by about 4 months, she was generally starting to do things at similar times each day (give or take an hour or so). Her needs are always changing, which is why I think having a set routine is difficult. You might want to schedule in 5 bottles a day, but with a growth spurt, your baby might need 6 or she might drop back to wanting only 4. That screws up the whole schedule and I think can be really stressful for some people. But they will eventually settle into doing things roughly similarly day-to-day (though that might change week to week or month to month). It will at least be similar enough to what happened yesterday or 3 days ago, if that makes sense. Unless you are someone who only functions with a set routine (and there are lots of people like this, which isn't necessarily bad), I'd just go with what she seems to need and work out what seems best from there.

Around 3 months, I think our daughter was having 6 bottles or so a day (had just switched over from BF) and was napping 3-4 times a day. Now at 6 months, she has about 5-6 bottles a day (usually around 8am, 11am, 3pm, 6pm, 8pm, sometimes at 4am, etc, plus or minus an hour or two.) and naps 2-3 times (about 5 hours total). She usually gets tired about 2 hours after she starts a feed, though it can also take 2 full hours for her to eat as she's a really slow eater, so sometimes she goes right to sleep after!
 
Thank you all, it's funny, I was worrying about where to start with a 'routine' but since he's been on mainly bottles (which is less than a week) he has fallen into his own little schedule, like you said MindUtopia. Bless his little cottons! :haha:
So far I'm finding bottle feeding so much easier than breastfeeding. He still feeds from me if he wakes in the night though. I'll keep doing that until my milk dries up, or until he sleeps through, whichever comes first.
 

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