12 Month Old Daily Routine

[nannynickers]

what's yours doing?

Was just reading a thread on 20 month olds was very insightful wondered what was going on with your 12 monther's... Will let me know if DD is normal

where is it?

dd is 13 months

she has no specific routine as she has resisted all such for 13 long months

wakes for the day any time between 5am - 6.30am
breastfeeds every 2 hours if I am with her all day
sometimes eats breakfast sometimes doesnt
usually naps in morning around 9.30/10.30 if we go out in pushchair or car, or might even fall to sleep on the boob, but sometimes doesnt - nap anywhere between 30 - 60mins
lunch - might eat something, might not
afternoon nap - again depends, sometimes around 3.30ish
tea - about 6pm
bathtime - 6.30
bed - 7pm
breastfeeds throughout the day if I am there, manages on snacks and water if not
wakes up between 3-8 times per night but only gets bf 2-3 times

why, what's your 12month old up to?

DD 13 Months

08.00 Wakes has breakfast of either toast/porridge followed by milk & juice

10.00 Shower, dont... ask she absolutely love's them!

10.45 Nap for either 30 mins or an hour (falls asleep usually as I'm drying her after the shower!)

11.30 Milk 180mls

12.30 Lunch, sandwich or finger food & fromage frais & juice

2.30 Sometimes milk if she is moany otherwise just play

6.00 Dinner, meat, veg and pudding

9.00 Milk & bed, bed bit often resisted!

I posted a thread a while ago for suggestions on getting her to bed earlier progress has been some what slow!

A lot of people suggested that she should only be having 1 long nap mid day but she just wont do it!

Would love to hear what routines your lo's have!

7am wake, drinks 8oz bottle (-what's needed for his cereal), has 1/2 weetabix and fruit.

usually has a morning nap 9ish

11.30-12ish lunch + nap after

2pm 4oz bottle

5.30-6tea..bath etc then 8oz bottle and bed at 7.

times and lengths of naps vary...he currently seems to sleep longest in his cot, also recently sometimes doesnt have a lunchtime nap (!).

His afternoon bottle i just give when he wants it but have forgotten sometimes so has been as late as 4pm
This isnt an imposed routine just what he has settled into. Im hoping he isnt starting to drop the lunchtime nap as any semblance of order in my house will collapse if he does!!

What do you give them for snacks and any dinner suggestions?

DD is mad for corn on the cob, she sits there happily gnawing away for ages!

DD is 14 months
wakes around 6am
milk on waking (unless she had it at 4am like this morning!)
breakfast at 8am (ready brek + pureed fruit)
snack at 10am (fruit, breadsticks, scotch pancake etc.)
lunch at 11.30-12 (or later if she falls asleep and doesn't make it to lunch)
1 to 2 hours sleep
2.30 bottle
4.00 tea
6.00 snack (e.g. pittas with humous and ham)
6.30 bath
7.00 bed
11.30ish wakes for food
and sometimes again in the night...

food: lasagne, sweet potato, beans, casseroles, fish fingers, pitta breads filled with anything, bolognaise and mini pasta shapes, rice/veg and small pieces of chicken. She can handle most food now (only 6 teeth, must have very powerful gums).

any tips on getting her to sleep through? i found the snack before bed very helpful for dd1 (now 2.10) but doesn't seem to have as good an effect on dd2.

twickersmum Pitta and humous is my favourite! Will have to try it on DD thanks! Do you toast them or serve them cold?

I'm sso glad my lo isn't the only one not sleeping thru yet.........feel so much better!

Dd is 11 months now - seems to lull me into a false sense of security by falling into a routine and then abandoning it just when I think it's going well! At the moment, her day looks like this..

Anytime between 5.30-7am wakes up

7.30 - breakfast - weetabix and fruit

8.30ish - 6oz milk

naps for between 30-45 mins around 10am. Snack when she wakes.

12 noon - lunch

needs a sleep at about 2pm but will do her best to resist it - on a good day she'll sleep for an hour.

Snack when she wakes - fruit or yogurt or similar

5pm - tea, followed by bath and 6oz milk.

6-6.30pm - bed

She'll sleep straight through if I'm lucky (about 4 nights out of 7) and other nights she'll wake anytime between 1-3am. Sometimes she'll settle after I go in and see her, other times she'll scream for as long as it takes to take her into bed with me

I think my DD is getting 'night terrors' on and off, she will wake up shreaking, you know the pain scream and wont settle until you have woken her up - as soon as you have done that she goes straight back to sleep! She is perfectly happy during the day and has a beaming smile on her face when she wakes up in the morning, it makes you wonder what they have to make nightmares out of???

nannynickers - i toast (lightly) the pittas because i keep them in the freezer. I buy a lot of wholemeal pittas all in one go. She prefers the bigger ones, cut in half, than the smaller ones.

we've had night terrors too recently. i nearly took her to A&E she was freaking out so much. thought she must have appendicitis... but when she went downstairs with the light on she was fine, brought her into her bedroom she freaked out. again and again and again... Not a "pick me up" or "feed me" cry but a full on scream the place down fit.

It's very weird isn't it. Quite distressing too because you can't work out if there is something actually wrong. Will your DD sleep with the light on or a night light?

we leave the bathroom light on so there is quite a good ambient light in the room, certainly not pitch black.
it only happened a few times - and always after she had had a bout of illness (high temperatures etc..) my mum reckons it is common for children to have night terrors after very high temperatures... (but she could be talking rubbish!)

I was also told temperature is a factor but DD refuses to sleep under the covers and ALWAYS kicks them off so if anything she is usually a bit chilly Brrr!

snacks...i forgot i give those too (when i remember), i give breadsticks, rice cakes, crackers, raisins, fruit or homemade banana biscotti which he loves!

Lunch, dinners i try and give what we have now as he eats pretty much anything, casseroles (beef and sausage good and easy), beany bake thing (v. popular), soup, i also make a chickpea curry that he likes although its not hot enough for us so make it and freeze loads.

For an easy tea when i get in from work i give him brown toast with dairylea or jam

interesting, we had the screaming abdabs like that the other night too, has just been the once but i had no idea what it was and took ages to settle him.

Have you tried sleeping bags nannynicks if your DD kicks covers off...i can highly recommend, worth every penny for us.

ds 14 months

Wakes up at 6am, has 5oz milk than goes back to sleep until 7-8am

8.00 Breakfast (porridge or cereal or youghurt & fruit)

12.00 Lunch - something with meat in it

12.30 - 1-2 hour nap

15.00 rice cakes

17.00 fruit

19.00 supper - pasta, rice, potatoes or veg in various combinations

20.00 bath

20.30 bed (8oz milk)

Usually sleeps straight through.

I know his bedtime is too late and that he should not be eating this late but he is starving in the evening...

She looses her temper with sleeping bags as it inhibits her fidgeting, walking or crawling!

Do your lo's use knife/fork/spoon on their own yet?

spoon: yes, quite good (she is at nursery 3 days, i think they learn quickly to feed themselves if they are hungry!)
fork: tries but ends up knocking most of the food on the floor
knife haven't tried no way!

justaphase, i would be happy with 8.30 bed if they sleep through
do you give your ds milk in his cot at 6am or bring him downstairs?

baubleweed - so glad to hear someone elses LO is routinely unroutine! Was beginning to think i was doing something wrong!

me too! dp had go earlier saying that i was regularly letting her routine go to pot - it wasn't for lack of trying you dimwit

twickers - I give him the milk in his room and then put him back in his cot. I have to hold the bottle for him btw, he blatantly refuses to hold it himself.

He does not use a spoon either - I think he can but just prefers to be fed.

Oh, and the only reason he is in a routine is that he has a nanny during the day and she has been so instructed. I make a complete mess of on the weekend usually.

He sleeps thru now but we had a horendous sleep problem until about 9 months old...

just had a bad night...
she went to bed at 7.30, no problem, she rolls over and goes to sleep like an angel
9pm starts moaning - we ignore her she goes back to sleep
12pm starts again, doesn't stop, starts really going for it at 1am we feed her. Drinks her milk like she is a starved child and goes straight to sleep.
2am she starts again... at 3am absolutely knackered i give in and feed her (very watered down milk). As i was making it she reached out for her beaker of water from earlier in the day and drank a lot - she was thirsty.
each time after milk she goes straight back to sleep without any fuss.

But surely at this age she just doesn't need it?
We keep blaming it on a cold/sore throat/teething (she hasn't been that well in the last few months) or am i just being soft?

Advice please!!

twickers, have you tried offering just water at night? This will at least tell you if she really is hungry or just wants to be comforted.

My ds is very hungry in the evening - his dinner is his biggest meal of the day and he has it very late - around 7pm. I only give him carbs then. At bedtime he has a 240ml bottle of milk so I know he can not possibly be hungry at night. Still he wakes up starving at 6am.

We had a bad night too last night, ds woke up and moaned five or six times. I resisted and did not go in so he settled himself but I could not sleep at all.

I know how you are feeling, ds used to be a horrendous sleeper so I deeply sypathise with you.