Naps / sleep schedules / advice please

Personally I reckon if you start all this too early it can have a negative effect, babies need to be held this little imo to make them feel comfortable and safe. I did a super gentle sleep training method when my LO was 8 months old and it worked really well and he's a great sleeper. This time I'm going to do it at 6 months old but deffo not before. For now you can just follow babies sleep cues and when they are sleepy, you can start putting them down etc. Whenever you do start, I'd really recommend the Pampers sleep app

Also a FTM here and just winging it most days.. my little boy generally does 5/6 naps a day and they go from 15 minutes to 1 hr 30 mins. I tend to follow his lead when he needs to nap also I have the Huckleberry app which predicts his optimum nap times based on feeding and nap length which I find really helpful. It will also give an idea of when ‘night sleep’ should start and since following this he started doing 6/7 hrs during the night. We also have a snuzpod and I only use this for night time sleeping and tried to create association to that being ‘bedtime’ so only time he wears his sleepsack is in there etc. I use a bassinet during the daytime or sleeps on me. Swaddling definitely helps when I’ve introduced a new space to make him feel safe. Currently starting to do one nap a day In his big cot in preparation for when he moves in their full time and started with naps being swaddled and now will do his nap without. Hope this helps give some ideas ☺️

Ive started to make subtle changes to our “routine” x

The only things we implemented from around 9 weeks were: - making sure he was fed at least every 3 hours between 7am and 7pm to get his calories in so he doesn’t need as many at night. This extended his sleeping from 3-4 hour stints up to 4-7 hours at a time. Use huckleberry for nap ‘sweet spots’ Wake up at 7am with curtains open, feed and fresh clothes Bath (just quick in out of warm water), bottle, swaddle and bed every single night. Bed time varies depending on how much he’s slept during the day but somewhere between 7pm and 8:30 usually.

My boy is 8 weeks. And the night routine is the same every night. Has a feed and a change and sorted for bed between 10-11. He wakes up 05:00 for another feed. Back to sleep until about 9. But during the day he sleeps whenever and I use that time to get stuff done and when he’s awake we’ll have cuddles or he’ll be in his chair.

I’ve started a loose routine for my 8 week old, we don’t stick to it to a T depending on what we are up to that day but we usually get up around 8/9 get a bottle, nappy change and some fresh clothes then have a little cuddle do some sensory cards or a story then tummy time and just chatting to her while I have a cup of tea or redbull🙈 I’m making sure to feed her every 3 hours during the day to get her calories in and also feeding less and often is helping her reflux! I usually time her wake windows which seem to be around 90 mins if we are we home (less if we are out and about as the car and pram send her to sleep!) I aim for one full nap in next to me or moses basket a day then I let her sleep on me for a while then pop her in every other time. At bedtime she gets her bath between 8-9:15 then cuddles, top up feed at 10 then cuddles again and in to bed once she is sleeping. She only wakes up once during the night around 3/4 then up again at 10 x

kind of… we have her upstairs from about 9pm but that’s it. She made her own routine tbh where she’ll feed at 10:30pm and then again at 12am and then she sleeps til 8am-9am

Honestly, with my first I didn't do anything to build a routine. I felt strongly that she would guide us with what she needed. The only sort of a routine I built was around how we settled her and using white noise/music to help with sleep. She found her own rhythm by about 6 months.