Newborn Routine

My 1st born goes to bed between 7:15 and 7:45 after a bath and story and then she’ll drink her milk in her cot. I then start winding down my 2 week old with some soft music and a bath but won’t bath him every night, he will then have a bottle and sleeps between 9pm and 2am quite comfortably. Midwife and HV have said this is fine as he is eating plenty during the day and he wakes for feeds himself day and night.. during the day, we don’t have a routine at all other than lunch is between 12 and 1:30 for my daughter and dinner between 5 and 6 xx

I feel the same - really struggling with a lack of routine right now! My 2 week old does what he wants when he wants 😂 I've seen no pattern to his behaviour yet. Everyone keeps telling me to calm down about it though and just let him be a baby 🤷‍♀️ looking forward to hearing others' routines for inspo though haha xx

We have a fairly loose routine but baths we do every other day or only if needed around 2-3pm as it wakes him up. We go up to bed around 10pm and do cuddles, winding, nappy change etc. then last feed at 11pm and then bed by 11:30pm.. sounds late but it means we get a lie in and he seems to sleep better rather than early night xx

My routine is that he sleeps on me until I go up to bed and then he sleeps next to me 😂 I think 12 weeks is the earliest I would bother with any kind of routine, they don't even have a circadian rhythm at this point. I just keep it loud and bright during the day and quiet and dark at night.

My routine is no routine lmaooo. I go by him if I’m honest xx

I’ve tried to create a routine, my little one is 3 weeks but she doesn’t have a clue about day and night still, seems to sleep better in the day that at night even with me trying to do the whole bath bottle bed , even nights I don’t bath her make absolutely no difference to how she sleeps so I’m just going with the flow at the moment

I go by her routine but she's getting her self into one quite nicely! She's 5 weeks old and every other night the bath bottle bed does usually do the trick but at the moment she's going to sleep just before midnight waking up around 4ish and again at 7ish. However its totally up to her and can imagine it'll all change with sleep regression. I find if I want her to go to sleep in the day, I tire her out with tummy time and abit of interaction xx