Routines

Naps between 9am and 11pm tend to be 12ish 2ish 4ish and 8sish.. with absolutely no real rigour to them. Could be 30mins could be 2hrs. If shes tired i help her to sleep and closely follow wake windows for her age. Even if its a 30min contact nap i try not keep her awake for more than 2 hrs tops in the day.

But between 11pm to 9am routine is quite predictable has been the same for like 5 weeks.

We move house in like a month and im hearing about these so called regressional learning curves so im not TOOO fussed. day naps are mostly so i can do things round the house tbh rather than a desire for routine at this age.

We are aiming for night time to be 7pm to 7am so we generally do bath bottle and bed around 7 ish. He falls asleep on us downstairs after his bottle and then we take up to bed when we go up. During the day I’m trying to aim for 1.5 hr wake windows as he gets cranky if he’s up any longer, he tends to have a longer nap in the morning and shorter naps as the day goes on. I’m using the huckleberry app to predict nap sweet spots and it’s pretty good at predicting when he’ll be ready for the next one so far. Persuading him that he needs to sleep even when he’s yawning his head off is quite tricky though!

We have a very light one, that morning is important because it defines the rest of her day, she wakes up anywhere between 8-9am I feed her and change her and she goes back down again for another nap. Then wakes up about 11 to start the day. If she misses this nap she is fuming for the whole day 🤣
Then bed about 11pm, otherwise we go with the flow x

I try to get LO to have maybe 1-2 naps a day maybe more depending on how she is feeling x
I try to get her to bed between 9-11 at night she will sleep through x if we have people over it’s hard to get her to have a nap and she gets a bit more unsettled when trying to get her to bed x.

do you mind me asking how old your little one is? And did you do anything to teach her to fall asleep on her own? Only ask as I am sooooo looking forward to the day when my baby can fall asleep on her own and we don’t have to do the endless rocking so frequently 😅

ahh thank you, that’s really useful to know. Mine is 3 months and has started showing signs at night that she can self settle but no chance in the day yet 😂

oh totally!! She’s soooo chilled in the evenings and will quite happily go to sleep but in the day she’ll scream at me if I try and wind her down 😅