Are you following a nap schedule or wake windows?
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My baby is 7 weeks and I use huckleberry app to keep tracking of bottles and sleep. He’s slept for 5 hours 10 minutes today so far. He’ll normally start his night time sleep between 10-11 depending on the day. He is awake more now but it’s still as and when he can be awake for 20 minutes or 1 hour n half just depends on him on the day. I just go with him at this age x
I use babybtracker to track naps and things, from around 8,9pm when she wakes I that that as night time, keep rooms dim lit, get baby changed and in her sleeping bag, feed her and put her to bed. I ensure she stays in her sleeping bag until it's morning so she knows in that it's bed time. Hoping it's helping start establish a bit of a routine
We have a rough routine we try and follow but with a bit of leeway here and there as she is 4 weeks 4 days Wake up 8.30 morning bottle, a bath, play time. 12 a warm bottle and then down for a nap wake up at 4 for another bottle play time then start the bedtime routine at 7.30 bath bottle then in bed by 9 and she tends to sleep through till 3 for a small bottle and nap change She drinks about 210ml a bottle so having less feeds but still getting all what she needs and helps with her sleeping at night Hope this helps
I haven’t and I probably won’t. I did with my first but I’m just going with the flow this time just to see if a routine naturally works itself out 😂😅🤪 xxx
I follow wake windows, also use huckleberry. Baby is 6 weeks so aiming for 45-60 minutes wake windows. With my first I found I couldn't do a schedule until she was 7 months and down to 2 naps, it is too unpredictable until then as you don't know how long they will nap for etc. We have an ideal routine as I have to get toddler to nursery and pick her up so baby fits around that, but it doesn't always work out.
My 8 week old sleeps from 10pm till 5/6am. The later she stays up the later she rises. From 5 weeks she slept from 11-6/7. I think it’s a case of using different tactics, like feeding to sleep, using soft ssh’s, getting them cosy, brushing a finger over their forehead and nose, rubbing their tummy gently x
We don’t have a routine just follow her patterns, she’s new to this and so are we at the end of the day. We are waiting till she develops her own sleep patterns x
i use huckleberry to track naps/night sleep/feeds, but i’m following baby’s cues for all of these each day. i use the app not so much to create a routine but more just to see if there’s a natural daily pattern of when baby is hungry/tired so i know what to loosely expect x
I'm not, but I've also been thinking the same. My baby sleeps a lot in the day and I might start trying to keep him up just a little bit before each sleep.