Routines

Does anyone else NOT have a night time (or even day time) routine, and just pure winging it?

My baby is 14 weeks and we absolutely have no routine, but he has no feeds after his 11.30pm feed until around 8am, which sound lush, but he struggles with wind still so he’s up (and I am) 80% of the night with wind issues. However, I don’t even know where to start with a night time routine, as he doesn’t sleep well through the day, so when he’s asleep in the evening, I don’t want to disrupt him to start a night routine when he’s likely to be woken up annoyed, as he is always in a state of over tired ness

Any advice? Should I implement something or let the poor boy SLEEP😅

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We don’t have much of a routine/ just a small dunk in warm water to help tummy aches (try to do every night but usually every other) fresh onesie, sleep bag, white noise, feed & sometimes a book if i remember. I mainly have white noise and sleep bag as only at bedtime so she knows

My baby is 15 weeks and we don’t have a routine I literally just go by sleep cues etc, I don’t bath her every night? 3/4 times a week? She had been falling asleep between 7:30-8pm but last few nights it’s been more like 9/9:30 which I don’t have a problem with, I just let her nap and wake up in the day when she wants, and I breastfeed and co sleep, id say no 2 nights are the same with times, but she wakes up, I feed her and we sleep🤷‍♀️ so yeah literally no routine, I don’t track any naps or anything either, not sure if I should be or should be in a routine but why fix something if it’s not broken xx

We are winging it for everything. With my first I was so stressed and obsessed with consistency and routines I was going mad. By 6 months or so she'd settled into a routine of some sort by herself. This time I am enjoying baby bubs without pressuring myself 😂

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