schedules?

[anj0427]

hi everyone! I have a possible silly question. I'm a new mom, my lo is 4 weeks old. My OH's friends often ask if lo is on a schedule and if not, then we should put her on one. How the heck do we go about putting her on a schedule?? We just figured, since she's not even a month old, that we are on her time.

 

[ronnie1234]

My LO is 4 weeks also, we have no routine either yet!

 

[anj0427]

i'm glad we're not the only one. When do you plan on putting your lo on a schedule?

 

[Jenren]

My ickle daughter is 8 weeks old and the only routine we have if bedtime.

We have a bath fed and bed before 7.30pm and then if she wakes i only feed and comfort her in her room she only comes out from 7am. Sounds strict but its really helping with her sleep pattern at night.

 

[buddyIV]

I can only really speak from my own experience here, but at the beginning we had absolutely no routine whatsoever...we just did whatever LO wanted, when he wanted it! We just followed his cues, and at about 3 months old we wrote down when he fed and napped and realised he had led us into a rough routine. It changes all the time, depending on what he needs, but we do everything in the same order everyday.

I wouldn't worry about it just now, as you say, your on her time, giving her what she needs when she needs it. I think we started trying to establish a night-time routine from about 8 weeks old (bath, BF, bed), and the day-time kind of fell into place from there. I found writing down the times of things really, really useful, as it revealed that he had feeds and naps at roughly the same time everyday, and I used that to structure my day.

 

[Emsbambino]

Congratulations on you baby.
My son is 5 months old we only really have a bedtime routine this is just so that he realises that it's bedtime so he has bath, gets his sleepsuit and his sleepbag on then he has feed, wind and then bed. Other than that we have no set routine of feeding etc as I breastfeed on demand.
Follow your instincts you will know when the time is right to input a routine. No one knows your baby like you do, she is still so young just enjoy xxx

 

[KayBea]

I didn't start a routine until 10 weeks, but to be honest if you write down all of LOs feeding & nap times you will see a routine appear over a few weeks. Xx

 

[ronnie1234]

My health Visitor said not to worry about a routine, it's too early, eventually it will all fall in to place. Been writing down her feed times for a while now so think next week I will write down nap times as well & see if a pattern emerges - then we can try & follow that patter, TRY anyway!

She varies her last feed anytime between 7.30 & 9 at the moment!!

 

[freckleonear]

My children are 3.5 and 1.5 years and we've never put either of them on a schedule. For us, following their lead was the most natural way to go. Just do what works for you and don't worry what others say.

 

[chelle7]

We didn't have a routine until around 3 months when lo just seemed to set her own

 

[hb1]

Don't know if this is any help but here's a link to lots of sample routines - I think there is also advice on how to get a routine going - I think it's mainly consistency - doing things in the same order etc etc

https://www.babycenter.com/0_sample-baby-sleep-feeding-and-play-schedules-for-your-childs_3657536.bc

hx

 

[eva2010]

we feed our LO at the same times each day, and after 7pm he goes into the bedroom to sleep if he's sleepy. He gets a feed at 11pm then we go to demand feeding until 7am.

Although this sounds strict he's generally ready to eat every fours hours, if he's hungry before the four hours are up, we feed him. I do wake him for his feeds in the day if he sleeps longer but this is very rare. It helps his colic to be fed at the same time each day so we'll probably keep this up until he starts dropping feeds - he's nine weeks old now and has had this 'routine' from about four weeks,

xx

 

[kes_a]

5 months on and i still dont have a routine.his kind of fallen into a rough one on his own.only thing i do is bath bottle and bed at 7.any later than that and he gets super ratty.today he went to bed at half 6 because he was in such a bad mood.