So many questions.

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Hi ladies. I've got so many questions and I think I will continue to have questions, so instead of making new threads every time, I'll just bump this one.

1. What is your night time routine and when did you start it?
We started ours last night. Sophia is 8 weeks old so I figured it's about time to get her on a bed time routine. We gave her a bath, changed her, warm bottle, and it took about an hour and a half for everything - and she was out.

How long does it take you nightly to get your LO to sleep?

2. Do you have a daytime routine? I don't like to say schedule because Sophia eats pretty much whenever she's hungry (3-4 hours) but do you do the same thing daily? (i.e- same tummy time, bouncy seat, swing time, ect)

3. I know she's only 8 weeks, and I don't let her 'watch' tv, but if I'm playing with her on the floor and the tv is on, I'll change it to something colorful. (Today I put it on Cat & the hat) & she watched it for about 5 minutes. What are your thoughts on this?

4. What should a 2 month old be doing? I sing, let her have tummy time, let her swing, but she's not always happy doing these things so I usually pick her up and she falls asleep. She's up usually an hour - 2 hours between feeds, is this normal?

5. She HATED her cradle, so she sleeps in a rocker type thing that the back is kind of set up - she also has bad wind and I heard letting them sleep sitting kind of propped up is good for that. When should I start transitioning her into her crib though? Should I let her sleep in it during naps during the day to get her used to it?

6. How do you find time to do anything? I'm home alone for roughly 12 hours while OH works. I feel like it's get up, feed Sophia, a little play and talk time, get her to sleep, she wakes up in 30 minutes to an hour and it's a repeat all day long. I'm lucky to get a load of laundry done, let alone anything else. When OH gets home, he plays with her for a little bit or feeds her but I like family time, so I don't like doing things around the house when I could be loving my family. Do you have set days you do certain things?


So so many questions, lol

 

[Lauki]

1. What is your night time routine and when did you start it?
We go upstairs between 6 and 6.30. Have a bath and then if she's not extremely grumpy we have some nappy free time and I rub her with baby lotion. Then feed and sleep.

How long does it take you nightly to get your LO to sleep?
She feeds for about 15 minutes, then hubby swaddles her and gives her a goodnight snuggle. Then for another 10 minutes on the other boob and normally then she's zonked out.

2. Do you have a daytime routine?
Not a strict schedule. Playtime with toys/books in the morning. Then nap 1 hour. Then feed, nappy free time and some tummy time. Out in the pram for around lunchtime where she naps another 30-60 minutes. Then we come back home and we sing and play and some more tummy time and giggles. Then a 2 hour nap till about 4.30pm and then she plays with her daddy and watches us while we have dinner and then upstairs for bedtime ritual!

3. I know she's only 8 weeks, and I don't let her 'watch' tv, but if I'm playing with her on the floor and the tv is on, I'll change it to something colorful. (Today I put it on Cat & the hat) & she watched it for about 5 minutes. What are your thoughts on this?
Sophie does this all the time and I'm personally not bothered by it. She's just fascinated by the colors and movements and she's not playing with toys yet, just looking at them. I figure when she's older I'll cut down telly time completely, but now she's so young it's just another form of stimulation to her. Obviously she's not watching it for hours, but the odd couple of minutes are fine by me while I change her or something.

4. What should a 2 month old be doing?
I sing to her, show her lots of colorful toys, read her books with pictures, guide her hands to touch things with different textures. Sometimes I just give her a tour of the house, or we do tummy time or she lays on her back and I just chat to her. Sometimes it's too much for her and I just put her in her swing and sit next to her without stimulating her too much so she calms down a bit. Sophie is up between 1.5-2.5 hours between feeds but she's not a very good sleeper, she won't just fall asleep, it takes some work. As long as your LO isn't waking up real early or sleeping bad at night I would just let her sleep when she does.

5. She HATED her cradle, so she sleeps in a rocker type thing that the back is kind of set up - she also has bad wind and I heard letting them sleep sitting kind of propped up is good for that. When should I start transitioning her into her crib though? Should I let her sleep in it during naps during the day to get her used to it?
I'm not sure with this. I had Sophie sleep in her swing for a while, but she's gone back in her Moses Basket now. Try out how she copes sleeping in her crib for some naps? She might surprise you!

 

[feedindy]

1. What is your night time routine and when did you start it?
We do bath at 6:30, then just sit with her and talk to her until 7ish. Then feeding lasts 30 minutes. Then put her in the crib. Then she talks to herself until she falls asleep. We started this when she was 2 months I think.

How long does it take you nightly to get your LO to sleep?
When I put her in her crib, she will be awake for 30 minutes. She will usually whine twice during that time because she wet her diaper, so we change it in her crib and then just leave the room. DH and I call her 2 wet diapers the "double tap" lol.

2. Do you have a daytime routine?
We followed LO's routine really, and one didn't really emerge until she was 6-8 weeks old. It's wake up and play 20 minutes, then eat, then play again. It is almost exactly 1 hour after she finishes eating that she goes down for a nap for about 45m minutes or 1 hour if I am lucky. Then repeat all day.

3. I know she's only 8 weeks, and I don't let her 'watch' tv, but if I'm playing with her on the floor and the tv is on, I'll change it to something colorful. (Today I put it on Cat & the hat) & she watched it for about 5 minutes. What are your thoughts on this?
I think it's fine. I will play little videos on you tube of animated animals singing twinkle twinkle or something. She loves watching. It's good stimulation I guess. I also found that she loves pictures! I will sit with her in front of my laptop and flip through digital family photos and her eyes are glued to them. I set it up on my computer to scroll on a timed slideshow and she loves it!

4. What should a 2 month old be doing?
When LO was 2 months, I think we did a lot of chit chatting mostly, and she was thrilled to watch my face. LOL.
Other than that I'd hold toys for her to look at or walk around the house or garden and show her things. She loved looking out the window. Now she is getting good at grabbing toys, but she still needs help. She used to love laying on her playmat and batting at toys dangling down, but she recently decided she is bored with that.

5. She HATED her cradle, so she sleeps in a rocker type thing that the back is kind of set up - she also has bad wind and I heard letting them sleep sitting kind of propped up is good for that. When should I start transitioning her into her crib though? Should I let her sleep in it during naps during the day to get her used to it?
It's fine to let her sleep in a rocker. I am usually one who says lat them sleep wherever they fall asleep. These past couple weeks though, I have been putting her in her crib for naps in her bedroom. I am sure she sleeps more soundly now with no noise interruptions from me doing chores.

 

[Nats21]

1. What is your night time routine and when did you start it?
We calm things down around 7.00, reading stories etc. Then at 7.30 we go upstairs for Callums bath, then at 8.00pm he has a bottle in his room and then is put into his cot where he goes pretty much straight to sleep.

How long does it take you nightly to get your LO to sleep?
He gobbles his bottle up within a few minutes, then he goes into the cot and will go to sleep by himself

2. Do you have a daytime routine?
Not really, when we're in things tend to be around the same time (dinner at 12.30pm, sleep at 1pm etc) but when we're out we just go with the flow really and things can be at different times.

3. I know she's only 8 weeks, and I don't let her 'watch' tv, but if I'm playing with her on the floor and the tv is on, I'll change it to something colorful. (Today I put it on Cat & the hat) & she watched it for about 5 minutes. What are your thoughts on this?
We have the telly on in the background but Callums not usually that bothered, I will let him watch in the night garden but other then that it doesn't really distract him, if it was becoming a habit and he kept watching it then i'd switch it off but a little bit doesn't hurt them I don't think

4. What should a 2 month old be doing?
At two months I'd just play with Callum, he wasn't very interested in toys but i'd show them to him and play the musical ones etc. He'd lie on his play mat and would enjoy a kick about and could swing his arms, i'd read stories to him and he'd love to watch me read them and i'd sing to him. He'd have a sleep every 1 and a half to two hours and then would be having his bottle at 3 hourly intervals

5. She HATED her cradle, so she sleeps in a rocker type thing that the back is kind of set up - she also has bad wind and I heard letting them sleep sitting kind of propped up is good for that. When should I start transitioning her into her crib though? Should I let her sleep in it during naps during the day to get her used to it?
At two months Callum would usually sleep on me or in his moses basket, then when he outgrew the basket i'd put him for naps in his bouncer, when he outgrew that, I put some pillows and cushions on the floor and he'd sleep on them, I tried him with his cot but it just confused him I think and he'd take ages to go to sleep, then he'd be awake within around 20 mins, so it was easier for us this way

xx

 

[kmumtobe]

1. What is your night time routine and when did you start it?
We started the same routine at about 5 weeks, the bath, bottle bed tho the times have changed as his needs have changed it's now settled at hal7-8 we start it, now he goes 8-8 with a dreamfeed as we go to bed and then one wake about 5/6 for milk.

How long does it take you nightly to get your LO to sleep?
He's always asleep within 5 minutes of his nightshow switching off, that's also 5 mins.. So max 10 but he's sleepy when we put him down thanks to the bath, massage and warm milk so usually as soon as the dummies in he's gone.

2. Do you have a daytime routine?
Nope, I don't think it'd work at that age if I wanted it to but I don't, I want him to be flexible with naps so I don't have to fit my life around them and as for feeds when hes hungry he's hungry.. It's impossible to predict.

3. Re:tv
Charlies fascinated, he turns his head to face it all the time.. Doesn't bother me as we are tv people, I'm not going to turn it off just cos I have a baby now. Growing up tv will be part of his life but I'm confident in my parenting he'll have loads else to do and we'll find a balance so I'm not worried. Sometimes he sits in his chair and I put baby tv on do he can see and hear music etc if I need 5 minutes to get something done, it's visual stimulation.

4. What should a 2 month old be doing?
Not sure bout 'should' but Charlie when we're in has hanging toys for his bouncer chair, he loves the Lamaze ones. He has a playgym. I do rattles with him and read his books to him. He's just this week switched his long sleeps for shorter cat naps of about 20 minutes between bottles, I thick mainly as he's sleeping longer at night

5. She HATED her cradle
No specific advice, charlies been in his from day one and is fine but I'd say u need to try break that habit as soon as u can, ur lo needs to get used to it. Try raising one end with cot blocks or you can get inclined wedges for lo to sleep on. Try gripe water/detinox etc to help with the wind.

6. How do you find time to do anything?
I'm quite lucky he will entertain himself for 20 minutes at a time but I think it's just an art of springing into action the minute lo is asleep of they won't go down, try have at least a mental rota of what needs done when so you do a little each day.. If all else fails just tell yourself it's noting that can't wait I'm sure, you're not expected to be supermum and your lo is more important, the needy baby days pass and you'll miss them


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