Please Share Schedule..(6 mos old)..BTDT Moms

BTDT Moms or moms of 6 month olds..Is/Was your DC on any type of schedule?
Did you feed on demand?
Were there/Are there set nap times?

DS takes 2 cat naps. All he wants is his bottle. For some reason today, he won't even eat his cereal.
He is so tired and fighting it like crazy.
I know he's teething.
Im so sad. I don't want to get frusturated, but, its hard

Please if you have your DC on any schedule, Please Share.

TIA so much!!

Re: Please Share Schedule..(6 mos old)..BTDT Moms

I'd like to know this too, thanks

Re: Please Share Schedule..(6 mos old)..BTDT Moms

DH and I have our son on a somewhat of a schedule.
Morning....
wakes up between 5:30 - 6:30am has a 6oz. bottle. 1 hour later he gets 3 1/2 tablespoons of Oatmeal and 1/2 jar of fruit within 1/2 hour later he takes a nap usually napping by 8:20am.

Mid Morning...
DS wakes up from nap around 9:30 - 10:00am has another 6oz. bottle plays for a bit and the nap again usually about 12:00pm.

Afternoon...
DS wakes up from nap around 1:30 - 2:00pm plays a bit then has a 8oz. bottle between 2:30 - 3:00pm.. then around 4 - 4:30pm has 1 jar of fruit then a nap....

Night time....
Wakes up from nap has 6oz bottle usually between 5:00 - 5:30pm has another 6oz. bottle then usually falls asleep for the night around 7pm.. Sometimes he will stay awake until 8pm then he will get another 6oz bottle then off to bed for the night... Stays asleep all night until the next day... then we start all over...

Yes sometimes he fights his sleep but he rubs his eyes so bad that I just sit him on my lap in the chair and watch TV and he falls right out... sometimes at night I have to rock him to sleep but other then that he is pretty much on a schedule... Of course sometimes it is broken depending on what I have going on that day... It goes off by an hour or two...

Hope that helps...

Re: Please Share Schedule..(6 mos old)..BTDT Moms

Here's ours...

Awake at anywhere from 5:30 am to 6:30
Breastfeed(not really anymore) and or bottle- 4oz
Breakfast at 7:30- 3 oz oatmeal made with 1 oz of formula mixed with fruit
Nap at 8:30-9am- M,W,F- go to Y and DD usually naps there in child care with a 4oz bottle, and then we just have lunch at noon
Awake at 10:30
Bottle- 4oz
Play
Lunch at 12- fruit- one jar, stage 2
Bottle- 4oz
Nap at 12:30-1pm
Awake at 3pm
Bottle- 4oz
Play, go to the pool, run errands
Bottle at 5pm
Dinner at 6pm- veggies, one jar- stage 2
Bath(every other night), read a book together and to bed with last bottle of 4oz at 7pm

I have tried to increase her bottles since we are no longer breastfeeding on demand but she likes more frequent, smaller feedings that she had breastfeeding so we just feed more often.
Hope this helps!

Message edited 7/11/2007 5:43:54 PM.

Re: Please Share Schedule..(6 mos old)..BTDT Moms

Bella is on a schedule. The times vary from day to day but the order of the activities are the same.

Wake up- about 8 am
Breakfast- Cereal, fruit, bottle
Play in exersaucer
Nap at about 10ish- can be from 1-2 hours
Lunch- fruit and veggie
play on the floor or go for a walk or go out
Nap at about 2 ish- 1-2 hours again
If up at 3-3:30- snack(formula)
If not early dinner at about 4:30- Cereal and veggie
playtime
possible cat nap
play with Daddy
Bedtime around 8- bath every other night, bottle, book, bed.

Hope this helps

Re: Please Share Schedule..(6 mos old)..BTDT Moms

Wow, I could have written this exact post. I feel like DS is on no set schedule anymore. He also fights me on sleeping and taking naps. DS is teething as well. He is MUCH better when we are out of the house and somewhere else. Actually, he's quite cranky right now and doesn't want to sleep, and it's after 9 PM.

Has anything changed recently that may have offset your typical schedule? I know for us DS just got over being really sick and has been out of daycare for a few weeks. So he's been off because of that too. They kept him on a much better schedule in daycare.

Anyway, I try to find things to do out of the house as much as possible. I've been taking him to the local pool and try taking him for an hour walk every day. The beach is a little more tricky because of all the stuff I have to carry. So that I haven't done yet but I plan on taking someone along with me and going when the sun isn't quite so strong.

I'm also still feeding him on demand. But one thing about my son is that when he's hungry, he's reeeeeaaaaly hungry! So I don't have him on a fixed schedule for that - usually every 3-4 hours during the day though. And I give him cereal with fruit/vegetables twice a day: in the morning and around dinner time.

I hope this helps. Just know that you're not alone .

ETA: I definitely think the sun going down later has something to do with why DS stays up so much later now. He used to fall asleep between 7 and 8, and now it's more like 9 or 9:30. I'm actually going to buy new blinds that keep out the light better. Oh, and of course the teething factor does not help. DS gets very uncomfortable at night because of the teething. Tylenol sometimes helps when the teething is really bothering them.

Message edited 7/11/2007 9:31:41 PM.

Re: Please Share Schedule..(6 mos old)..BTDT Moms

Matty is 7.5 months now but he has been on this schedule for over a month now:

Wake up between 5 and 6- I try and keep him in the crib until 6.
6am- Bottle 5-7 oz
Play until 7:30 or 8
Nap (1-2 hours)
Around 9am -Breakfast- cereal and fruit
Play or go out
Around 11am- bottle 4-7oz
Around noon- naptime
Around 1:30pm- lunch- 1 or 1.5 jars of veggies
Play, go in kiddie pool, go out
Around 3:00- bottle 4-7oz
4:30 Nap (about 1/2 hour)
Around 5:00- dinner- meat/veggie
7:30- Bath, book, last bottle
8:00pm- Asleep