PLEASE PLEASE share your 14mo routines with me

[Madallie]

That's it really. Can you tell me when they wake, sleep and eat?

Thanks

of course (dd2 is almost 14 months)

7.45 wake up (give or take 15 mins)
usually has drink of milk
8.10 breakfast
9.30 some kind of snack (toast, banana)
11 drink of milk and another small snack
12ish goes for nap (max is 2 hrs, usually a bit less than that)
2ish wakes
2.15 lunch
4ish milk and snack
5.45 dinner
6.30 bath
7 milk, stories
7.20 goes to sleep

it's a pretty set pattern actually, especially the bedtime routine. HTH

7 -8ish wake up
8ish breakfast
12 lunch
1230 nap (usually two hours)
330 snack
6pm tea
7 - 730 bath & bed

Thanks rhetorician.

Did it take your dd long to transition to 1 nap and to sleep for that length of time. My dd doesn't want 2 naps but also won't sleep long enough at midday and then gets so tired by BT.

p.s. love your routine

DS is 13 months but he's just dropped his morning nap so his new routine is usually as below

6.30-7.00 wakes up and has breakfast straightaway, usually offer 2 weetabix and he eats most of it or 1 Quaker oats porridge sachets.

9.30-10.00 morning snack, usually a banana

11.30-12.00 lunch, usually has a hot meal at lunchtime like chilli con carne, spaghetti bolognese, pasta, lemon & tarragon chicken etc. I save him a portion from our dinner the night before and reheat it for him.

12.30-1.00 put him down for a nap, usually just under 2 hours.

3.00 afternoon snack, usually something small like rice cakes or breadsticks.

4.30-5.00 tea time, usually do sandwiches, cheese on toast, scrambled eggs on toast, beans on toast, crumpets etc with some yoghurt for afters and grapes. I usually give him milk at this time as he won't drink milk before bed!

6.30 bath time or quiet time

7.00 bed time

I've just gone back to work 3 days a week, so activity wise, DS plays and 'helps' me with my big weekly clean on Mondays and we go to the library on Monday afternoons. On Fridays, I'm planning to try out a new toddler group which is held in the mornings. Weekends are spent as family time and DH does breakfast with him on Saturdays whilst I have a lie in and DH has a lie in on Sundays.

Thanks Pumpkin

Did the transition to 1 nap go well/smoothly for you too?

CheungFun - your routine sounds lovely. I think I need more structure to my week/days. Not a rigid structure but certain things/activities planned for each day.

My little lambkin is a creature of habit, although she has recently been mixing it up- sometimes having no morning nap. However, this generally means she is v overtired by midday so won't sleep amazingly in the afternoon. I am doing my best to go with the flow....
6:30/7- wake, beaker of milk
8- breakfast, weetabix, fruit, whatever I'm having
9- nap for 30mins, drink/ snack when she fancies it
12- lunch
12:30/1- nap, usually 1.5/2 hrs
2:30ish- milk, snack
4ish- another snack!
5- tea
5:45 ish- bath
6ish- slathered in baby butter, milk and story
6:15-6:30- bed
Looks really military but in reality she eats snacks when she's hungry and tells me exactly what she wants- I just do as I'm told!

She kinda moved to one nap herself when she started nursery as she wouldn't go down in the morning but was exhausted by lunchtime!
To be honest she still has two naps but the second tends to be random in the pm and not everyday. It depends how busy she has been during the day! Sometimes I just put her to bed earlier if she is grumpy.
I like having a basic routine outline to work around rather than a rigid structure. Mainly cause I'm disorganised! :)

Thanks Madallie! I think it helps to have something planned but not set in stone like a library baby rhyme time or playgroup, for me it's all about getting out of the house so I feel I've done something with the day and it breaks the boredom of being at home all day with a little one. I'm definitely finding being back at work helps as I'm getting housework done faster and enjoying my days off with DS much more as I'm making more of an effort with him!

Definitely CheungFun. I agree about having a rough plan rather than a rigid schedule.

madallie - as I recall she went down to one nap at about 9 months - until December she was waking about 3-4 times a night (aaargh!), but we moved her out of our bed room and night weaned her, and since then she has slept through pretty much.

Like others, the routine is really set by her, although she now goes to nursery 9-2 2 x a week, and goes to sleep there after her lunch, so about 12.15 and wakes at 2ish when they get her up

My ds is a little older but our routine is slightly more laid back! I'm not one for routines and just try to go with the flow as much as poss. Having said that he's settled into a bit of a routine himself and its quite different from everyone else's I'm afraid.
He usually wakes between 8 and 9 and starts the day with a breast feed.
Around 9.30 breakfast. Usually toast, strawberries and a yog. (Doesnt like cereals!) we then always go out and about for some fresh air, park etc.
Around 11 he will ask for a snack - usually a glass if smoothie and a biscuit / apple slices. Usually have these with me.
Around 1.30 we come home, he will start to become hungry so we have lunch, usually soup, pasta, jacket pot.
He will then ask for a bf when he's getting tired, this can be anytime between 2 and 4 usually, sometimes later. He will have 2 hrs kip.
6.30ish he has his tea. Always freshly cooked, fish pie casserole etc.
7.30ish bath
Then daddy comes home from work so we play and spend some time together as a family, read books etc.
He goes to bed when he's ready. He will ask for milk when he's tired and I put him to bed whenever that maybe. Usually about 9 - 10, sometimes its later! We co sleep and he will usually wake once or twice for milk overnight too.
I will probably get flamed for my lack of routine etc but ds is happy, healthy, very bright and well behaved so I don't think our laid back routine is an issue. I wouldn't get too wound up with what everyone else does and just go with something that suits you and your family. Everyone is different!

jakey no reason to flame you - it suits him, it suits you!

at 14mo we don't have a strong routine for nap times - DD always resisted daytime naps although is much improved. Actually this suits us since the various times of the groups she goes to don't work out for a regular nap time.

6-7ish wake-up followed by breakfast
10:30ish snack
12-1 lunch
15;30ish snack
1800 collect mummy from the station after work followed by
18:30ish tea, bathtime and bedtime routine.

Generally she'll need a 1 hour nap around lunchtime, sometimes a shorter one earlier instead in which case she'll need a second nap later.

Tea time is often earlier at weekends.