Routine for EBF baby?

Hello! I’m just wondering how people are in a routine with their breastfed baby? For example, I don’t understand how I meant to have a set bedtime when she feeds on demand so one night her last feed could be seven another it could be 10! Am I missing something here or do people just let their baby lead and not have a structured time based routine? X

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My little one is 12 weeks and we do not have a routine at all. I am very much following her needs.
I don’t plan on establishing a routine until she is moving into her own room at 6 months.

Baby lead here- no routine for feeding (or generally!) and no set bedtime yet. A set bedtime certainly doesn’t work well for every baby- if it’s not achievable and doesn’t work for you, don’t strive for it. It doesn’t really mean anything!
My first child still doesn’t have a set bedtime, there’s soo many variables, what they both have is a consistent “bed time routine”, which to us is more important than it happening and precisely the same time every day. For my toddler, it’s the routine that does lead to bedtime, for the Jan baby it’s just an evening routine that leads to quiet time and usually another nap, before bedtime is much much later.

I have a routine from the week 4. My boy is nearly 11 weeks now. He has a bath at 7pm, then a feed and he sleeps till 4am now 😀 breastfed baby. I just pre-plan ahead. If he's hungry at 6pm then I'll just give him one boob and stretch it till bed time. Works great for us.

My baby is 12 weeks I don’t have a routine apart from night time! I introduced a bottle of kendamil organic formula and wake her up at 11pm to give her this! She is now sleeping through the night. Rest of the day she is EBF x I found just breastfeeding she was just constantly on me and seemed to cluster feed xx

My baba is 9 weeks , has a bottle of expressed milk around 6pm then a boob top up in bed at 8pm which is his bed time he then falls asleep around 8:30-9 and sleeps till 4am then again wakes around 8am , last night he slept 9pm - 6:30 this morning !! I feed on demand but make sure to help fill him up prior to bedtime x

I exclusively breastfeed. My baby is 3 months today. He got himself into a routine tbf, we get up for the day at 6-7 and go to bed at 7-8. If he wants to sleep longer in the morning I let him, if he isn’t tired by 7-8 at night he stays up but he usually stick to those times :)

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This might rattle some people

Ok, this might get a bit long, and a bit bumpy, so get comfy and buckle up.

So about a week or 2 ago, there was a post on here regarding sleepovers. Not letting their child go to them as you can't trust who'll be at the house etc.

Now, given recent incidents in nurseries and schools, plus my own experience back in the 90s, I am more concerned about sending my child to nursery and later school than I am to a friend's house for a sleep over.

The other day a man was jailed for abusing children at the nursery he worked at. A woman has been arrested for sleeping with an underage boy and then getting pregnant by a different underage boy while on bail for the first offence.

Young girls and boys get sexually harassed and bullied when at school, not all of them. But more than you think. And not just by other kids, but by adults who we as parents are trusting to look after our kids.

A sleepover, is a more controlled environment, with only a handful of people coming into contact with your child. A school, a club etc there can be 100s of people coming into contact with your child.

I was targeted at 7 years old by the owner of a prominent private school. Thankfully, I wasn't SA'd. In year 5 of primary school, I started to develop early, I was harassed by the boys and teachers made remarks about how my uniform didn't fit right, always "adjusting it" around my chest and legs.

Years 7-9 of secondary school were hell. But it was all under the guise of "we're just messing around". A teacher twanging my exposed bra strap (none uniform day) is not "messing around".

Boys pinning me down trying to rip open my shirt to see my breasts.

I fear for my daughter. I hope she takes after my father's family, flat chested.

We need to educate all our children, what is acceptable behaviour. And to come to us, as their parents should ANYTHING happen.

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But how do I make him understand what he’s doing isn’t very nice? At the end of the day I feel like I’ve just been saying his name all day and nothing else.

What can I do?