What's the feed/sleep schedule for your baby?

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I want to know what kind of a schedule do you have for your baby.
Please specify whether the baby cosleeps or sleeps in a crib/bed
separately.

Thanks.

[Donna Metler]

Alli sleeps in a separate crib (although in the same room with me), and, so
far, breastfeeds usually for comfort, getting EBM from a bottle for bigger
feedings.


Sleep from about 7:00-6:00, waking up once or twice to eat (usually about
10:00 and 2:00). Is active and playful from about 6:00-11:00 (eating about
8:00)-this is when we have our activities (books for babies, Kindermusik,
and when we run errands, go to the park, etc), nursing almost continually
from 11:00-3:00 (in a carrier/front pack) drowsy but not usually asleep,
usually eats a big feeding about 3:00 and sleeps for about an hour solidly,
then is awake and sometimes fussy until about 6:30-7:00, when she eats a big
feeding and goes to sleep. Usually she's with me (in a front pack or right
beside me) until she next eats and I pump, then put her down in her crib.
Daddy feeds her at 2:00 so I can sleep. I pump 5x/day.

However, all of this is subject to change at Alli's request.

--
Donna DeVore Metler
Orff Music Specialist/Band/Choir
Mother to Angel Brian Anthony 1/1/2002, 22 weeks, severe PE/HELLP
And Allison Joy, 11/26/04 (35 weeks, PIH, Pre-term labor)

[Sue]

What age are you talking about?
--
Sue (mom to three girls)

> wrote in message
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> I want to know what kind of a schedule do you have for your baby.
> Please specify whether the baby cosleeps or sleeps in a crib/bed
> separately.
>
> Thanks.
>

[The Watsons]

> wrote in message
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>I want to know what kind of a schedule do you have for your baby.
> Please specify whether the baby cosleeps or sleeps in a crib/bed
> separately.

Given that sproglette's nine months old, and we don't cosleep...

Up around now, naptime seems to be shifting to around 1330.

Eat about every three hours.

Back to bed by nine, usually ~2030.

Jess

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Sue wrote:
> What age are you talking about?
> --
> Sue (mom to three girls)
>

Mine is 6mo. Asking for a schedule for the baby. Thanks.

[Sue]

Well at six months, I believe the girls were still on a nap in the morning
and then nap in the afternoon schedule. I think they went to bed for the
night roughly around 8-9 PM. They would get up around 7-8 AM. All three of
my kids slept in a crib in their own room at six months or around there
anyway. Before that, they were in a bassinet in our room.
--
Sue (mom to three girls)

> wrote in message
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> I want to know what kind of a schedule do you have for your baby.
> Please specify whether the baby cosleeps or sleeps in a crib/bed
> separately.
>
> Thanks.
>

[Alley]

> wrote in message
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>I want to know what kind of a schedule do you have for your baby.
> Please specify whether the baby cosleeps or sleeps in a crib/bed
> separately.
>
> Thanks.
>
Mine is 9 mths old, he wakes about 630, breakfast at 7 back in bed about 9
for a nap then after lunch for another nap, alseep in own cot next to my bed
at 8pm, wakes 2-3 times a night to be fed. Breast feeds usually before going
to bed or as sonn as wakes up just depends. Sometimes if he won't settle in
the cot I rock him in the pram.
Alissa

[JJ]

DD is 6.5 months. She sleeps in a crib in her own room (and has for
about 2 months- before was in a bassinette in our room) She generally
wakes up around 6-7, and has a quick feed (usually no too hungry at
that time) and then I pump. Then she nurses at 8, and first nap from
8:30 and it is either 45 minutes or 90 minutes. She has a bit of
cereal or jarred veggie when she wakes up. (generally not interested
in nursing then) and then we play for a couple of hours.
She nurses again around 11:30-12, and goes down for a second nap right
after, which also lasts anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours. When she
wakes up we usually go out for a bit. She nurses again around 3. If
she had two short naps and seems tired, she'll sometimes take a 3rd nap
at 3. She may or may not want to nurse again at 4:30. Then at 5, we
have a bit of cereal or veggie (generally just a few spoonfuls of each,
not really anything significant) If she seems tired, we go directly to
bathtime, story, nurse and bed by 6:15. Otherwise, we'll play some
more, and start the bath/ bedtime routine around 6. Typically she'll
wake up to nurse an hour after bed, then possibly at 11, and pretty
consistently at 2 and 5.

I am SO proud of this routine as it took forever for her to fall into
any sort of pattern. I found parts of Mark Weissbluth's "Healthy
Sleep Habits, Happy Child" helpful- mainly the parts about post colic
babies being sleep deprived, putting them down for the first nap within
an hour or two after waking, and that there is no reason not to nurse
to sleep (which we do as often as possible)

Jess

[Chookie]

In article om>,
wrote:

> I want to know what kind of a schedule do you have for your baby.

I googled myself, and here is DS's pattern at nearly seven months:

6 -- 7:30am: "Cluster feeding" -- he has breakfast in bed with me and
has two feeds close together, while he (and I) are three-quarters asleep.

9:30am or later: Morning tea, followed by a short nap (shower time for
me!).

Lunchtime: Lunch for both of us.

About 2:30 pm: Afternoon tea, followed by a nap.

4 -- 6 pm: Dinner. Possibly two feeds in this period.

8:30 -- 9:30 pm: Supper. A long solid sleep. If supper is early, he
will have another feed at about 11--12.

Some ghastly hour, when it's totally dark and I can't see the clock:
another feed, and straight back to sleep.


The meals I refer to here are all breastfeeds, though he was getting solids at
dinner at this age (and a bath straight afterwards!). I never tried to
control DS's routine; he developed this pattern (and the preceding and
subsequent ones) by himself. I remember realising when he was about 2 months
that each feed had become predictable to a range of 1.5 hours. Again, I
didn't do anything to encourage DS to behave in that way; I just allowed
nature to take its course.

Has your baby's pattern changed? I'd like to know what prompted your question.

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is
nothing worth being eager or vigorous about."
Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893.

[Elit]

My 6.5 mo's schedule is something like this:

sleep ~10pm-6:30am (sometimes sleeps later on weekends--we get her up
for daycare around 6:30). Before daycare, she slept through the night
80% of the time, since starting we're closer to 50% of the time getting
up to eat once (rarely twice)--worse when she gets sick.

BF at 7ish, off to daycare

Usually naps about an hour around 9:30ish

cereal and bottle around 10ish at daycare, or cereal & bg at home.
We'll be adding a fruit or veggie to this meal soon too.

1-3 additional naps ranging from 20 minutes to an hour, plus 1-2
additional bottles at daycare (They feed every 3 hours since the last
bottle, but sometimes she naps through her "scheduled" time, so things
depend).

Home from daycare around 5:30 & BF

Additional babyfood meal (we're on green veggies at the moment) and BF
7-7:30

Sometimes she takes a mini-nap around 8:30ish (with a small "snack"
bf), sometimes just awake and playing

Bf before bed, around 9:30. She frequently falls asleep eating, but
not always.

She sleeps in a crib in her own room unless she's sick or decides she
wants to eat at like 5am. I feed her in our bed then so I can snooze
that last hour before getting up for work. For a while after she was
born, she slept in a cradle in our room, but she hated it--the mattress
was thin and it had no bumpers, so her own crib was probably more
comfortable and secure feeling. She's quite happy in our bed (with the
memory foam mattress and warm parents to snuggle up with), but we don't
get much sleep that way...

When she's not napping or eating, she's usually playing on the floor or
in her doorway jumper, or on our laps.

HTH
--Elit.