Did you try to have a routine for your newborn??
Question by Erin J: Did you try to have a routine for your newborn??
My daughter was born 13 days ago and we usually try and put her to bed at about 10 but she is usualy totally wide awake at this point and does not fall asleep until 11 or later. Did you try and establish a routine of putting him/her to bed and awaking him/her at the same time everyday for your newborn? Did you do anything routine everynight to try and get them to get sleepy before bed? I have heard of giving a bath at the same time every night to try and get them to notice that “oh I am having a bath, must be almost bedtime” but it seems kind of silly to bathe her every single night. What worked for you? She is wide awake right before her bedtime! Thanks for your advice.
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Answer by Alyssa Marie’s mom
its almost impossible to have a routine for a newborn, we just went with the flow…usually up all night…trying to get her to go to sleep….and 4 naps during the day….I am glad that is over….
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My baby will be 3 weeks on Friday and is on absolutely no sort of routine. They are still quite young at this stage. Right now it’s feed on demand and he usually wakes about every 3 hours during the night. I don’t believe in waking him up, though.
I don’t know how much of a routine you’ll be able to establish right now. It might drive you crazy trying.
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LikeDislikeI started a routine quickly because I had to go back to work after 7 weeks. We started the night with at about 7pm we would give her a bath and then after bath time it was time for a “dinner bottle” so to speak. We would sit down with dim lights and low music and feed her. Try not to stimulate her. That’s what could be keeping her so wide awake. And the doctor also told me that when she would wake up in the middle of the night for a bottle, give her just that. Don’t interact too much and only change her diaper if is was full or poopy. That way she would go back to sleep faster. And maybe try to stimulate her more during the daytime so she can establish the difference between day and night. I wish you the best of luck and congrats on your new arrival!
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LikeDislikemaybe I am silly but I swear by the bath….I always give a nice warm bath, massage, nurse and off to bed. My first son slept through the night 7-7 at 8 weeks and my 9 week old sleeps 7-7 (he wakes up around 3 for a feed) My 3 year old still sleeps between 10-12 hours a night and I really think having a routine down helps.
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LikeDislikeit’s too early for you to have a routine. at 6 weeks, i finally could get my girl to go down around 11:30 and she sleeps about 5-7 hours. she is sometimes wide awake, but we co-sleep so if we go to bed, she usually will fall asleep within 20 minutes. it’s very hard at first. i slept on the couch for the first 6 weeks so my husband could get rest since he had to work. everything is on-demand, so i don’t think there’s a way to get a schedule down this early. but keep trying. one day it just might start working…that’s what happened w/ my baby girl.
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LikeDislikeI didn’t work and was home with my child so I let her kinda set her own routine. She was pretty good though she all ways wanted to be in bed by 8pm and get up at about 8 or 9. I would let he nap when she got ready to and feed her when she was ready. It really did work for us. I did the same with my second child to he would go to bed about 10pm and get up about 10am. Then he would take a nap from like 1 or 2 untill 5pm. he would eat when he was up and ready.
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LikeDislikeMII SON IS 8 WEEKS OLD HE WILL SLEEP UP TO SIX HOURS AT NITE BUT MII PROBLEM IS URS HE WONT GO TO BED TLL 12 OR LATER.. THE REASON WHY MII SONS SYAYS TO SLEEP SO LONG IS I HAVE BEEN GIVING HIM RICE IN IS FORMULA AT NITE AROUND BEDTIME…BUT TO ANSWER UR QUESTION I WOULD SAY IT IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO GET THEM ON A ROUNTINE SORRI DON’T WORRY THOU I AM TRYING AS WELL !
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LikeDislikeI swear by story time and baths (doesnt have to be every night) i give her a bath every 2days just because she smells so good and loves baths!
but i do read to her every night (unless its a bad night and she just needs to get to bed asap!) At first she didnt know what i was doing with the books but not she is 5 months and as soon as i pick the book up and turn the pages she kicks her feet and squeals ITs SO CUTE! Iwe love going to bed in our house and we put her down anywhere from 10-11 pm every single night and we have been since she was 8 weeks old. Before that she was too young to be on a schedule but what we did was lay down around the same time every night and she eventually knew it was time to go to sleep, but if your baby sleeps for along time DONT WAKE HER UP!! they grow in their sleep! even if it throws your baby off of the schedule DONT WORRY it will go right back the next day. We didnt really worry about it and we let her fall into her own schedule and it works for us, i am well rested and i have a almost 5 month old who sleeps from 10-11 pm to 10-11 am and we love it!
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LikeDislikemy baby slept all day and was up all night
i tried to wake her but it was useless but then she switched all on her own now shes sleeps from 10at night to 11 before noon
dont worry she’ll change
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LikeDislikeI let my baby make the schedule and It absolutely amazed me how consistant he was. In the first 2-3 months you can’t expect much. All I did was follow my baby’s lead. When he gave me the signals that he was tired I put him to bed, when he told me he was hungry I fed him. His schedule started to solidify at about 2.5months (still all him). He went to bed between 6-7pm (up every 2-3hours to eat) and woke up in the morning at 7am, ready for a nap at 8am for 1 hour, up for 1-2hours, nap again for 1hour. Pretty much like that all day except for a longer nap in the afternoon. I wouldn’t force anything at this point. Follow her lead. She will tell you what she needs.
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LikeDislikeMine was on a very tiring every two hour feeding schedule it was hard and now it is every four hours and he snacks on food solids in between. I always tryed to do the same thing everyday to get my baby in the patteren of take and eat at this time sleep at this time and take baths at this time once we got that down now we have a patteren down. The consistin routine everyday really helped!Good luck.
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LikeDislikeALot of people don’t agree with a routine for a newborn but i had the same routine from the day we brought her home and she still has the same routine 7 months later….I don’t believe that you should have a STRICT day time routine but that your night time routine should be the same every night. Not necessarily at the same time but roughly, Charleighs bedtime is roughly 8 depending on what sort of day she has had and how tired she is and every night its bath, masage, bottle, cuddles, bed and she sleeps through from 8 – 8:30 and has done since 7 weeks….You dont have to wash them every night but you know how warm and snug you feel when you get out of a bath it is relaxing and can help to put them to sleep.
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LikeDislikeI tried. I really tried with both my kids and it just didn’t happen. I kinda fell into their routine. My firstborn never got into a routine really, I think it was because he was in NICU for 45 days and they woke him up at all different hours for tests and things. My daughter the first night home went to sleep at about 11:00 pm and woke up about 6:00 am and she does that to this day,(she is a teenager now. ) but during the daytime all bets were off. My mom thought it was the most important thing to have your kids on a schedule. And she really rode me to make it happen but I just couldn’t get the kids to cooperate. It’s kinda like the old saying,” I made plans and God laughed.” But I think the most important thing is that you get some rest and you get some peace and quiet. We are all better parents when we have had rest and we have had a nice meal. Good luck and God Bless
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LikeDislikeMy routine was really simple, no sleep after 5pm then from 6pm give a bath or simple wipe down. Then put on the pyjamas, nurse and at around 7pm “attempt” to put to bed!
It didnt always work but most of the time it did.
During the day she generally could only stay up for 2 hours.
The book “baby love” helped me lots.
All the best.
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LikeDislikeI guess I am odd man out… I set my baby on a schedule from day one…. I based it upon the Baby Whisperer book.. the schedule is called EASY Eat, Activity, Sleep (Your time while sleeping) It has worked for me… my baby initially ate every 2 1/2 hours… and now that she is 3 months is on a 3 hour routine… Thus having this I was able to determine when she eats, sleeps etc…. Now she periodically sleeps through the night entirely with her bedtime being 8pm, but normally she wakes at 2 or 3 for a night time feed… She normally goes to bed fairly easily and again at about the same time nightly… I dont bathe her ever night though only 3 times a week….
Good luck =)
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LikeDislikeIt’s possible to put you baby on a schedule. Ever since I brought him home, every night he has a bath (even though it’s a pain!) at about 8:45 p.m. Then I turn out the lights and give him his bottle. He’s in bed at about 9:15 or 9:30 and sleeps through the night every night. He wakes up between 6:30 and 7:30 in the morning. He is 4 months old now, but trust me a routine will work if you do it every day. (I also keep him up as long as possible durring the day with about 2 1/2 hours of nap a day total). Even though a routine may be a pain and get boring, it’s totally worth it when you get him/her to bed and sleeping through the night. He has been sleeping through the night since about a month old or so. Right around the time I stopped waking him up every few hours durring the night for feedings. Hope this helps!! Good Luck!
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LikeDislikeit was the other way around. my newborn made the routine for me.
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