Child schedules

What are your children's feeding/sleep/bath schedule?

I feel that I'm going about my DS's schedule wrong, so I need suggestions as to what works for other parents.

Re: Child schedules

Message edited 2/8/2007 3:26:45 PM.

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Posted by anon

whatever seems to work that day

i try to give baths at night before bedtime - bath, bottle, bed. however just when i think she has established one schedule, it changes the following day

we try to shoot for the following, and 6 times out of 10 it works :

wake up - boob/bottle
1/2 hour - hour nap 1.5-2 hours later
boob/bottle at around 3 hours from last feeding
1/2 hour nap - hour 1.5-2 hours later
boob/bottle at around 3 hours from last feeding
1/2 hour nap - hour 1.5-2 hours later (this one is a cr@p shoot)
bath
boob/bottle at around 3 hours from last feeding
sleep for the night

this morning DD REFUSED to nap, she is just getting around to it now

Re: Child schedules

Message edited 2/8/2007 3:26:54 PM.

Re: Child schedules

Posted by anon

whatever seems to work that day

i try to give baths at night before bedtime - bath, bottle, bed. however just when i think she has established one schedule, it changes the following day

we try to shoot for the following, and 6 times out of 10 it works :

wake up - boob/bottle
1/2 hour - hour nap 1.5-2 hours later
boob/bottle at around 3 hours from last feeding
1/2 hour nap - hour 1.5-2 hours later
boob/bottle at around 3 hours from last feeding
1/2 hour nap - hour 1.5-2 hours later (this one is a cr@p shoot)
bath
boob/bottle at around 3 hours from last feeding
sleep for the night

this morning DD REFUSED to nap, she is just getting around to it now

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we have settled into the fololowing routine....times may vary:

wake up (7-8am)
eat breakfast
about 1 hr later, bottle then nap (usually 2 hrs long)
wake up/play
lunch/play
about 1 hr later-bottle then nap (1-2 hrs, 30-45 min if we are at work)
wake up
play
dinner (around 4 but sometimes as late as 5:30ish)
bath
bedtime bottle (bedtime is almost ALWAYS between 6-7 aside from the RARE ocassion shes out late or something)

ETA: we started bathing her EVERY night when she was off baby food completely....it's just SO messy when she feeds herself.

ETA #2: I swear by Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy child by Dr Weissbluth. I did not hold to a timed schedule, but that two hour window of awake time is SO true.....at almost 9 months old sometimes she still can't stay awake that long after waking up in the AM. DD also fell into her routine, so it was a little of following her lead and maintaining the intervals of time.

Message edited 9/18/2006 7:17:06 PM.

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Ok, SOMEONE needs to tell JT that I am not an idiot and that she DOES need to go down for a nap every two hours. I mean, hello, the kid NEVER naps for you and ALWAYS naps for me, so don't you think that maybe I know what I'm talking about??

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Well, she's the Queen of the catnap. So naps are NO longer than an hour(usually 30 minutes).

She eats half a jar of veggies and fruit at 6pm. I bathe her around 6:30, read her a book, give her a bottle, and she's out like a light at 7pm. She wakes up anywhere from 6-7am.

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Wow. What are you guys feeding DC to sleep almost 12 hours... ugh.. IF ONLY! lol.

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Wake up 6am- Bottle

9am- 1/2 fruit and oatmeal with a bottle

1 hour nap (varies)

Lunch-Between 12 and 1- Veg and Fruit followed by a bottle

Nap 1-2 hours

Dinner Between 4- and 5pm fruit and veg followed by a bottle

Bedtime between 6 and 7

I give baths in the morning usually every other day.

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Wake up between 6&7am - 7oz bottle
After bottle he goes down for a nap for about 1-2 hours
Breakfest 9/10am 1tbspn of cereal and half jar of veggie then 4oz bottle
11:30 I try to put him down for nap but doesnt always happen today he actaully slept until 1:40.
12/1pm 7oz bottle
3/4 7oz bottle
5:30/6 he gets a bath, creamed up, 7oz bottle then he is asleep usually by 6:30.
He will take some naps in the afternoon but its different every day.

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Wake around 5:30-6 eat, play for 30-45 min then 2-3 hr nap

Eat again around 9 or 10 play for 45 min, nap

Eat around 1 or 2 play then nap (if I am lucky)

Eat around 5 or 6 play then cat nap

Bath around 8, eat then bed

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What's a schedule

I nurse on demand and just happy when DD actually does nap or sleep