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Do you wake your baby in the mornings at the same time?

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Singsongmama · 20/07/2014 05:03

Interested to know your morning routines...do they start at the same time every day? Even if they've slept badly etc or do you get up when they do and follow their lead? DS could be up at 5am some days or as late as 8.30 if he has had a bad night but falls asleep eventually and is left to it. Should I be getting him up at the same time daily? He's 6 month and still demand feeding.

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Fairylea · 20/07/2014 11:43

For me I plan life around the routines... so as strange as it sounds to some I always make sure I am home for naps (made sure they napped in the cot in a dark room from a very early age, no crying involved just pick up / put down / dummies and fed on demand etc). I am quite an anti social so and so anyway it has to be said so I wouldn't go to groups / meals etc that interfered with nap time. Family just has to work around us.

Sleep is the most important thing to me. I have an underactive thyroid and a pituitary problem so I spent all my energies getting them in a routine that meant 2 hours nap time a day and 12 hours sleep at night.

If by some utter random chance nap time was half an hour later or so I'd just adjust the routine by half an hour but I'd always aim to be back for naps etc.

Neither of mine have ever (and I meant ever not even as tiny babies) ever slept in a pram or buggy. They'd just get more and more agitated and want to go into the basket in a quiet room or the cot.

Maybe I've just been lucky. I know it wouldn't suit everyone. But it suits us.

Pregnantagain7 · 20/07/2014 12:02

I have three children and have always woken them at seven at they're not already awake. They've all gone down for a sleep at nine for about an hour (this sleep is dropped at abut one) and a two and half hour sleep at 12. Apart from maybe a five minute whinge they've all fallen asleep happily and by themselves. I put them to bed a seven and they sleep till seven the next morning. I find for us a family it works to have routine, the only downside is a have to be home during the day between 12 and 2.30 but I just use this time to make dinner,do housework or just have a bit of time to myself.
If we go out on a day trip or something then they would sleep in the buggy but maybe for and hour instead of two and a half.

Nowaysis · 20/07/2014 17:00

Fair enough fairylea - I don't think I could plan my day / weeks / months around nap time. I'm probably the opposite to you and very social and like to be doing something or being somewhere, so dd has always come along with me and got in to her routine around my schedules. There was a rough time each day she'd nap each day, however if we missed it, it wouldn't make a scrap of different at night time.

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Bedsheets4knickers · 20/07/2014 17:13

I wouldn't , they'll have decades of having to get up a certain times. Until mine started nursey they did as they please x

lola88 · 21/07/2014 16:20

I never wake DS he does between 11.5 and 13 hours a night and bedtime is around 6.30 til 8 depending on when he got up you only get a small amount of time to just relax before work nursery and school starts I didn't waste it worrying about the clock. We still have a routine it doesn't go by the clock just by hours since we woke up/last ate etc

I kinda of think since babies can't tell the time and they know by routine then it doesn't matter what time you do things it's more about the chain of events like up play snack play lunch out dinner bath bed if your doing the same things then surely the times not that important?

Takeitornot · 22/07/2014 19:33

I've never had the chance to wake up my DTD's. They wake up by themselves every day between 5.30am and 6am regardless of what time they went to sleep. Generally they're asleep between 7pm and 7.30pm but this last week one of them has really struggled to sleep with the heat and its taken until 11pm some nights to get her asleep. She still wakes up at the same time in the morning....

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Singsongmama · 22/07/2014 19:37

Yeah the heat doesn't help at all! It's so hard to cool a room down.

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jessiemummy28 · 24/07/2014 20:11

My DD is 8 months and I never wake her in the morning. To be fair she is usually awake at 6am so I don't need to! If she's had a really disturbed night or isn't well she will sometimes sleep as late at 8am, and if that happens I leave her to sleep. Never had any problems getting her to bed at her usual time (7pm) the following night.

SarcyMare · 25/07/2014 22:32

No 1 son no way was i waking him up, but i had a school run
to do by the time i had no 2 daughter, so she had to be up and ready to leave the house by 8:30.

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