Sleep schedules!!

We're up at 5:30am, her naps at daycare are all over the place, but at home she'll go back down for a nap around 7/7:30am, I wake her up two hours later and then we're back for another nap around 1/1:30, wake her up at 3 to give her 3.5 hours of wake time before bedtime at 6:30pm. This has been our routine for quite some time now. I started moving waking up time about 2 weeks before she started daycare, mainly so I could get used to it too. The rest of the day fell into place with making sure she was awake for feedings within 3.5 hours of a feed (back then), not sleeping for longer than 2 hours at nap, and wake windows helped me figure out when she was getting sleepy.

6:30 feels too early to shoot for. I think we could work him up to 10:30 or 10 pm though.... And slowly work our way up to like 8 pm. 8 pm sounds reasonable and would give hubby and I time to.... Be a couple

But it probably feels too early because we tend to be more of night owls . .... We may try shifting our schedules.... Hubby's been doing 4 am to noon ish work schedule for this week. It's early as heck for him to get up.... But it means he's done with work by lunch time. Or just after

I could possibly look into doing part time second shift from home. If he continues that kind of schedule.

But he also doesn't always sleep for stretches longer than seven hours

Yeah we do 6:30 so she can get in the 10-12 hours of recommended night sleep because she doesn't nap the best at daycare. It'll shift as she gets older but 5:30 is the wake up call to be able to get her ready for daycare so my husband and I can go to work. It's really all about what works for your family. But shifting it slightly over a certain amount of time is what worked for me to get her on the schedule we're on now.

He has yet to have been in daycare.... So I feel bad that he's only getting 7 hours at most....of nighttime sleep....But sometimes more .... And that many nights he doesn't fall asleep until 11:30 or 12 am or 12:30 or 1 am....

I don't have a job yet, but I'm looking at part time honestly .... With three dogs and a baby.... And daily dishes laundry and a project if possible.... Yeah....

We went cold turkey and he adjusted pretty quickly. He used to go to bed when we went to bed around 11:00, til a parent educator gave me the “oh honey- he should be in bed by 8:00” line 😆 So, that night we put him to bed at 8:00. For a while he would wake up in the middle of the night hungry so we’d give him a bottle. We started pushing the threshold for how long since his last bottle that we would offer another bottle. Eventually we got him to take his evening bottle at 7:30 and sleep until ~6:00 am when we give him his morning bottle. We’ve had ups and downs and this isn’t always a perfect system but overall it’s been going pretty well.

See, I feel like if I consistently slowly up his schedule I should be able to work him up to an 8 pm bedtime.... But right now I think a good goal to shoot for is 10 or 10:30 of baby being in his crib

I do dinner around 4:30-5 then digest and playtime then bath 3 times a week with a lotion massage fresh jam jams and sleep sack and in bed between 7-9 every night on the non bath nights he gets a night massage and his sleep sack he sleeps any where between 7-9 am then breakfast then has his nap around 10ish-12

We're having the last of dinner now.... So maybe I could bathe him next then jammies and playtime? . It's too warm for sleep sack.... But definitely fresh pajamas would be good. Maybe give him a bath two times a week ( I've honestly been doing once a week)

9 is a good bedtime goal.... It would probably take a few weeks to work up to that .... Right now a good goal is 10:30, tbh

It gives me time to make hubby a breakfast to pack , give all the dogs breaks, hubby and I time to watch a show while baby plays in the same room .... Etc

Or maybe sleep sack and a light onesie or t shirt?

Okay.... Just had a bath. He's in footie pajamas.... 🥰

Went to bed 45 minutes ago

Scientifically a baby’s most restorative sleep essential for growth and development occurs before 12am. That’s why it’s so important to have a bedtime between 6pm and 8pm at this age.

@Gabby :( I feel so bad hearing that 😔

I guess just go cold turkey and start putting him to sleep early and do this in phases where he sleeps for stretches that slowly increase with time ? I dunno....

Or should I slowly bump him up to earlier? The trouble is that I'm the one who puts him to sleep and naps.

He seems to want to do contact naps more 😔.... This doesn't help 😔

He just yawned but also seems awake

Okay. I'm going to start trying a two week plan. Implement a schedule adjustment for two weeks, bumping it 15 minutes earlier of goal time for 2 weeks for each adjusted time. July 26th would be the start of a 10:30 pm bedtime

2 weeks allows for various things that may occur, such as teething, which tends to make him wake up more often

Start by choosing a morning wake up time. I would do 8am to start with. And then follow an age appropriate schedule with 2 naps. Shoot for about 3h of daytime sleep and do a bedtime around 8pm. The first 2 days will be messy but by day 3 you should see improvements. Any wake ups between bedtime and morning wake up should be considered night wakings so do whatever you are doing to get him back to sleep! I’m a sleep consultant so I deal with schedules a lot! I also had to deal with a lot of schedule issues with my baby because of early morning jobs and international traveling!