I've got twin girls, 2.5 years old and 8.5 week old baby boy. The twins are challenging, strong willed, defiant, disobedient, like normal toddlers I guess.
They have a fairly strong routine - up at 7ish, breakfast 8ish, lunch 12ish, nap 1ish til 2.30ish, tea around 5, bath around 6, bedtime around 7.
They are pretty good and fairly predictable.
The fly in the ointment - so to speak is the baby.
He has no routine, he gets up anytime, will probably have about an hours nap mid morning and probably have a couple of hours around lunchtime. Day times I can cope with - just. But night times a different story. Sometimes he'll go to bed at 7, sometimes 10, sometimes 6. I had started waking him at 10pm for a nappy change and feed in the hope it'd lead to a routine. But if he's not settled asleep til 8 I can't bring my self to wake him 2 hours later.
The twins were initially express breast fed and then on formula. By this age they were sleeping through from 10pm til 6am. This was only possible because they had fairly strict feed times which led to nap times. Feeding on demand doesn't work like that I know, this BF business has completely thrown me! Any advice, tips, encouragement please?!