Routine

My baby girl doesn't have a 'routine' as such. She wakes anywhere from 6.30am to 10.30am, but then is awake for 1.5 hrs before having a nap. Nap could be 20 min, could be 2 hrs. Her day schedule is all over the place, but she is always tired and ready for bed/asleep by 8/8.30pm. Dream feeds at 2am when I get up to pump and then doesn't feed again overnight. I just follow her cues and if she is hungry she eats, if she is tired she sleeps lol.

It was like that with my first. I also followed her wake period timing more than having a full schedule. My second who is the age of yours is more predictable. She has kind of created her own routine. Both my girls I pretty much followed their lead. At the same time the second is dragged along to activities of the first and is more flexible. I personally see it as our children are individuals just like us. You will get to know your baby and what works best in due time. You are only 4-5 months postpartum. Getting to sleep, my first would only sleep on me. My second is more independent. I just rock her for a few min and she goes to sleep. I feel like I haven’t been helpful. I want to give you reassurance that you are doing well though.

Thank you for sharing, I went incognito as I am too embarrassed that I haven’t been able to create a routine for my baby girl yet :( That’s so amazing that your baby sleeps by 8:30pm. Mine usually sleeps around 9 and wakes up around 11-12 and is wide awake and doesn’t sleep till very late 😩

@Sophie thank you for sharing . It’s always nice to hear that

My first didn’t go to sleep until 1AM for a while. That was painful. Haha! The. Later as she was older and starting to sleep through the night it was 4AM wake ups. Those were brutal! I can understand wanting to go incognito. Sadly people can be really judgmental. Not always. But unfortunately most of the time. It’s ok to protect yourself. I have done many of posts with that fear. I feel mothers cop a lot of judgement including from other mothers. It’s hard. As long as we are loving our kids and doing what works for our little individuals then I feel you are doing a great job. Right now little miss #2 is waking every 2 hours and my second has now got a single bed and sometimes comes in the night. These days I don’t know what sleep is. Haha!!

My baby is 5 months going on 6 months and still doesn't have a predictable sleep routine. You're definitely not alone! Her wake windows are the only thing that is pretty consistent, but each day is going with the flow because her morning wake and night sleep times and nap durations are pretty all over the place.

No routine here. Her day naps are like roulette, will I get 20 mins, will I get two hours. It helped me to stop tracking her sleep. I found I went out more because I wasn't stressing about her sleep and followed her sleepy cues. You're doing a great job a routine will come at some point.