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Is there anyone with three kids or more who has their baby in a routine?

9 replies

Enid · 05/10/2006 12:39

we went out for supper last night and the woman asked what dd3's routine was (as we took her with us). I had to say 'er she doesnt have one' at which the woman said 'won't she play you up terribly tomorrow'

yes obviously I realise she was p'd off with a baby arriving for supper but it made me think - I had quite a stirct routine for dd1 but have NONE for dd3, she just has to fit in with what everyone else is doing. Can ANYONE manage it with two other preschool/school aged children?

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Pollybloodyanna · 05/10/2006 12:42

My younger children have always had a bedtime routine as this is what fits in with the others. They have always been plopped in the bath with the oldest and put to bed at the same time. When dds 2 and 3 were very young babies they would be brought downstairs in the evening after bathtime and fed, but gradually went to bed earlier. I didn't deliberately set out to do a routine, but as I am exhausted by the evening, it works for me to get them to bed as early as possible!

During the day dd3 just has her nap/lunch wherever I can fit it in in between toddler groups and school/nursery runs.

jasnDISMemBERED · 05/10/2006 12:54

I'm not a routine person, but as the dds are at school, ds has to fit around that. He's fed and dressed before school run, gets tea when the girls do(4.30-5)and goes to bed after them.

He probably has more of a routine than they ever did.

sugarfree · 05/10/2006 13:01

I did exactly what Pollybloodyanna said.
(good name btw)

fennel · 05/10/2006 13:04

does this woman have children? how many?

none of mine had a routine, dd3's routine was going to school twice a day for her sister's drop offs and pick ups.

divastrop · 06/10/2006 16:56

my ds and dd2 have had bedtime routines since birth,just because i had to teach them as quickly as possible that nighttime is for sleeping as i have to get up to take the older 2 to school(and ds2 to nursery now).dd2 is 10 months now and has breakfast/washed/dressed before i take the others to school.basically,im the same as pollybloodyanna in that dd2 just fits in around school/nursery pickups etc during the day and sleeps when she wants.but 7pm is bedtime

Rookiemum · 06/10/2006 17:55

I have a sort of routine in that he goes to bed at 7.00pm. Sometimes rookiedaddy tries to keep him up later but tbh I have looked after him all day I don't really want to see him in the evening as well, evil mum that I am

Rookiemum · 06/10/2006 17:55

Rookiemum · 06/10/2006 17:56

Oops sorry about double post, puter got infected DH tried to fix going much slower than normal

porolli · 06/10/2006 18:38

my third (8 months) is in a routine for going to bed and eating but apart from that not. daytime sleeping is completely hit and miss and generally happens for a snatched five mins here and there on the school/playgroup run. i think it would for me be impossible to do anything else. oh, and the bedtime routine has only started in the last couple of months. for the first 6 months, he was up all evening too but i was really losing the plot...!

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