Routine 9 months

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I was just wondering what your routine is for your babies?

My dd2 is 9 months and is in no routine. I am planning to go back to work end of October. I am positive dd1 was in a routine by this point.

I suffer from depression and anxiety and I am struggling to even begin to tackle this along with getting her into her own cot and to introduce formula, ebf at the moment but will need to start with formula as she is going into nursery 2 days a week and with granny 1 day a week, partner the rest (works shifts)

A little bit of advice would be grateful received. 🙂

06.00 - wake up and breast feed.
07.30 - breakfast
09.15 - breast feed and morning nap until 11.00
11.30 - lunch time.
14.00 - breast feed and afternoon nap until 15.30.
16.30 - evening meal
18.00 - upstairs for bath time.
18.30 - into his own room for breast feed and stories.
19.00 - bedtime (with no overnight feeds).

I implemented this at 9 months because I needed routine and structure before I returned to work, which I did when DS was 10 months old.

Prior to introducing this routine his day didn't have any real structure, he barely napped in the day, we co-slept at night and he'd constantly BF overnight too. Life was chaotic and we were all exhausted.

When I did go back to work at 10 months my DS went to a Childminder's house two days a week and obviously the routine didn't stick quite to plan whilst with her because she had other children to work around but for the other 5 days a week when he was at home with me or DH we stuck to our routine very rigidly and it worked really well.

Initially when I went back to work I was expressing milk and sending that to the CM's with DS but after a few weeks of I got a bit bored of doing that so I sent him with formula instead and he also had formula before bed on those two nights as my shift patterns meant I wasn't home until well past his bedtime. In the 5 days a week he was with me I continued to breast feed him as per his routine.

He stayed to this routine until he was about 2 years old and then stopped from two naps a day to one, which he had pretty much straight after his lunch and would typically sleep for 2.5 hours.

He's 3.5 years old now and has only dropped his afternoon nap within the last few months.

Good luck with finding a routine that works around your day and I hope it makes life easier for you all.

Is what you're doing working for you at the moment? No need having a 'routine' unless you think it would help? Also your baby may not need formula at nursery if you are still planning on bf him when you're with him. My baby started nursery at 12m and just had food and water there, and bf on demand with me.

When he was 9m our routine was roughly like this:

6-7am - wake up
7/8ish - breakfast
9ish - nap for maybe 1.5 hours
12ish - lunch
2ish - nap for up to 2 hours ish
5ish - dinner
6 - bath, book, bf, asleep by 7pm

Bf on demand through the day including feeding to sleep for naps.

Woke frequently through the evening and night for bf.

Why do you need to introduce formula for nursery? Mine has started going to nursery at a year old and has food and water during the day. A lot of other EBF babies refused bottles and expressed milk even at nursery from about 8 months (obviously those who were younger they pushed and pushed the bottle because it was important). Because mine was a year I didn't bother any expressed.
I'm not trying to tell you you should breastfeed longer but at 11 months-ish at nursery start you don't have a massive pressure to introduce a bottle I would have thought?

We had very strict training at NNCollege. It didn't do well!!