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Ladies, those with 6/7week olds… what are your days currently looking like?

My little boy is 7 weeks on Wed, and every day is different… bar the wake up at 6am and “bed time” at 9pm (he’s asleep long before this but that’s when I take him up to bed with me and get him in his swaddle). He will then sleep for 3/3.30 hours from 9pm onwards, but hourly after that until 6am. We are very much just winging it with daytime naps and he fights them in the afternoon. He’ll often go for 6 hours awake 🥵🫠

Just interested to see what others days look like.

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We are 6 weeks on thursday and still not mastered a routine yet apart from mornings wide awake afternoons are for sleeping (was like it from 16 weeks in pregnancy) but feedings and offical bedtimes and offical nap times we havent put into routine yet

6 weeks on Friday - no routine here yet either. Some days feel more structured, but then everything changes (and thats perfectly normal at this age). She'll sleep really well 2 nights, then struggle to go down. One day at a time.

We’ve had a routine since about 3 weeks old .. routines key with twins 😅

2:00 bottle n back to bed
6:09 dad gives bottle and puts them back to bed
9:30 I get up
10:00 bottle then play until tired
(They then sleep until next bottle)
14:00 dad does bottle then play until tired
(They then sleep until next bottle)
18:00 bottle then play until tired
(They then sleep until next bottle)
22:00 bottle then bed

We do bath time every other night before the 10pm bottle

As they started sleeping longer stretches at night we don’t wake them we just adjust the 4 hourly routine to when they decide to wake for a feed in the night but the routine I put above was where we started and now it’s the same just adjusted slightly.

Typically they’re awake anywhere from 30mins-2hrs after the bottle before I get them down for a nap

Mine is 7 weeks today and I'm the same as you with the 6am and 9pm feed. The feeds and sleeps are pretty random in-between though. My baby is never usually awake for more than 2 hours though. 6 hours must be very tiring! Hope you're OK x

Baby is 6 weeks on Thursday the only routine is bathed and in bed for 8/9, that’s all 😂

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