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What is your routine with your 1-2 month olds?

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Mummyto3tobe · 29/10/2014 19:19

You'd think, as this is my third that i would be a pro at this but here i am again. 5 week old baby and no clue how im going to get into a routine. In fact it sort of feels as if i never will from where im looking right now.
Im bf and night times generally go different each night, there is no pattern emerging at all right now, he will fall asleep on me downstairs, we will bring him to bed when we go around 9-10pm, attempt to put him down in his crib and then wait for when he wakes. Last night he lasted a whole hour before waking and at his best (which was well over a week ago) he slept until 2am. Then i will put him in bed with us and feed lying down and end up keeping him there until morning as any attempts to put him in his crib again after the first night feed end up with me rocking him for hours on end before he finally settles in his bed without waking straight back up when i put him down. I have always been dead against co sleeping but with 2 other kids to get to school by half 8 each morning i need to try and get some form of sleep each night.

Im really keen to find other mums with a similar age baby (5 weeks) to see how they are coping and what your routines are daytime and night, if you have one yet? Im hoping it will help make me feel like im not alone and that what im going thru right now is normal!

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Mummyk1982 · 29/10/2014 21:41

I'm not as experienced as you (only one DC aged 7 months)- but I remember the feeling well! To be quite honest, in retrospect, I laugh at myself to think I tried to gain any sort of routine before my little girl was 5 months old- she was just to young and needed to be tended to 'on demand'. I totally sympathise with you and can't imagine how tough it must be trying to get two others to school, but I'm not sure that 5 week olds can fit to a routine- their needs are too great.
It will get better though, and your routine will come. I remember having sorted a brief 1-2 hour routine in the mornings which allowed me to be showered and dressed by 9.30 by the time DD was around 7-8 weeks :-)

OliviaRinHerts · 29/10/2014 22:38

Hi

My ds is 10 weeks. He is my first so I really didn't know what to expect. In fact I was so naive to think I would get any sleep- it was hourly feeds (bf) at first and then 2 hours but he only wakes once or twice at night now so hang in there. When they are new the y just want comfort -ours wouldn't sleep anywhere but on us and hated his Moses basket but now sleeps there quite well. He is getting big for it though so we are going to try the cot this weekend.

I'm sure you are doing brilliantly but with all the hormones band lack of sleep you are questioning yourself.

You will gradually get in a routine ( trying to stretch out the time in between feeds is something my sister in law told me) but as they get bigger and more efficient at feeding it will just happen
Congratulations and I hope you gets one sleep soon

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