What does your day look like with your baby?

Am I doing something wrong? Our days with my 12 week old looks like this:

Wake time: anytime between 7-9am (usually 8am)
Feed: 30-45mins
Nap: 1-2.5 hrs
Awake all day with cat naps here and there. I’m lucky if baby sleeps during day since 9 weeks old. Sometimes I can get her to sleep for an hour or 2 in my arms. There’s only been a handful of days since 9 weeks that I’ve been able to get her to sleep for the recommended 4-5 hours for her age.
Mostly just sit with baby but will take her for walks or play with some toys and baby gym here and there but feel like I don’t play with her with her toys as much as I should. She has still been hitting all her milestones and development
Bedtime routine: bath, snuggle and try to get her to sleep 9pm
Baby finally falls asleep in my arms at 10pm and will stay asleep until mom and dad go to bed around 11:30-12:30 depending on what we have to do around house. We’ll feed her then she sleeps from 1:30am until she wakes in the morning between 7am-9am

During the day we feed every hour - 3 or 4 hours depending on hunger ques

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My baby does the same! Worry we haven’t done enough tummy time too :( she holds up her head on her own but she has to put in a lot of effort it seems to hold herself up with her arms during tummy time. She moves around with tummy time by pushing off our hands with her feet

Similar to my babes also. He just cat naps unless it's a contact nap. So we are entertaining babes all day long with little break for ourselves. He awake 6am - 11pm. I can usually get him to sleep until 9am. if i contact nap with him.

All sounds normal mama !

Mines the same, he doesn't get actual naps longer than 5-20 mins at a time but sleeps from 12ish to 9ish with a 6ish feed, lol

My son wakes up around 10-11 am and we do whatever we can to keep him busy all day. He only naps for 10-40 ish mins at a time.

My baby is 3 month and “Moms on call” / EASY schedule worked for us best starting around 7 weeks with 4 naps a day with at least 2 naps in crib

Sounds like a very normal schedule and very similar to mine. At this age, they are getting into some sort of routine but not exactly a rigid solid routine. Contact naps are normal. And alot of women complain that as soon as we lay down our baby they jolt wide awake. Babies are still in the fourth trimester now so catnaps are expected unless in your arms.
Don't worry too much about entertaining your baby. They are already entertained by your voice and the world around them so you don't need to do much.

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