Can someone help with a vague feed/sleep routine for a 1 month old?

[keb2702]

I know my LO is only 1 month, but I'd really like to start getting him into some sort of routine. Nothing strict like Gina Ford, but something that hopefully will encourage him to go longer between feeds and a little longer at night!
He is bottle fed.
Anyone got a routine/schedule that worked for them?

A bit early to do any serious routineing (is that a word) but for me it helped to have an evening routine that went bath feed bed so at least one point of the day was not a desperate scramble.

The most important thing is to respond to baby's cues, a bit of mouthing, screwed up face, pursing lips are early cues. The first few months are gruelling, can't lie.

So my best advice is feed baby as soon as he asks, trying to eke out another half hour by jiggling and crooning is so very tiring.

Congratulations on your new baby, give his head a sniff for us MN Aunties.

I loosely follow the EASY routine (eat, activity, sleep, you time). The activity can be something as simple as a nappy change, time on a play mat or just interaction with you. The sleep is then anywhere between 45mins to 2 hours (in theory!). I followed this pattern with dd1 and we've just naturally fallen in to it with DD2. The routine is from Tracey Hogg's book 'the baby whisperer'.

In the evening we do bath, feed and bed. She's now 10 weeks and it's only this last week she's started to go down by 8 ish. Before then she was very much on our timings. I remember the same being true with dd1.

Even when DD2 was very new I used to bath her and get her in to her sleepsuit early in the evening to try and signal a change - even if we were a long time off bed x