Routine

[alwaystired24seven]

What's your baby's routine? Need advice

@Yellowcar2 I'm sure she'd let you know if she was tired lol!x

@Ooplesandbanoonoos my username has changed but I did this post and I have no idea sometime she doesn't nap at all and is up that late. Tonight she has been asleep from 9:10 so I'm wondering how it's going to go x

@Rubyduby26 that sounds brill! Wish I was that organised x

@drunkenflamingo2 thank u for this x

Mine is younger by a few months but I definitely see a difference in her settling for bed about 7/8pm if she has had enough naps in the day. I now try to stick to guidance about maximum awake time and get her ready for bed before this rubs out. So through the day I try not to let her go past 2.5 hours without a nap and gave her ready for bed arrpund 2 hours after her last nap- am still doing 3 naps a day.

@Ooplesandbanoonoos do you think more naps helps them sleep at night then not?

I definitely think more naps helps sleep. Took me a long time to see this! It means they are not over tired so can relax into a deeper sleep in my experience. Mine isn't keen to nap so i use pram or plan my day e.g. driving home from somewhere to fit in a nap.
Hope it gets easier I know how hard it can be

I don’t think wake up time has much to do with when they go to sleep. It is related to when they have their naps and for how long. At this age my children were doing this:
7 am wake up
7:30 breakfast
8:30/9 An hour long nap with milk
10-12 Some activity of some sort
12 Lunch followed by milk
12:30-2:30 Nap
Wake up and snack and milk
5 pm Dinner
6 pm Milk
6:30 Bath, Teeth and a story
6:45 Little more milk
In bed and asleep by 7

So there was roughly 4.5 between the last nap and bedtime.

@Ooplesandbanoonoos I never thought of it this way thank you. And hope so lol ! X

@PotolBabu it all sounds so simple to do when everyone posts but I'm just finding it hard as to where for her to nap how long how many and I've been doing it for 8 months. I should know all this by now!x

Well I always wake up from naps. I don’t let them nap beyond X period of time. After how long after waking does your baby get ratty? How long after the first nap do they start getting ratty again? And then from the second nap the key is to make sure that they don’t nap too long.

Dont be hard on yourself. We learn on the job and they change all the time anyway. Just try not to keep awake beyond maximum awake times and slowly bring bedtime forward.

@PotolBabu maybe 2.5 hours or so? I didn't really look for signs tbh as I didn't realise how naps would make a difference if used in different ways , how long r ur baby's naps for? There 1st 2nd?

@Ooplesandbanoonoos she's been asleep since 9.15 instead of 11/12 as I got her up earlier etc and took some advice of another thread and she seems fast asleep still so I'm hoping it'll keep working to and your advice on naps will help me aswell x

Good luck you'll get there .

@Ooplesandbanoonoos thanks so much for your advice I appreciate it all 🍼🌸x

So the first nap is roughly an hour, the second is usually two.

Going against the grain here but my DD has never napped much in the day and always been a relatively good sleeper at night. As I said, she was in a routine from being about 8 weeks old which we changed to suit us more around 6 months so from 6 months she's been doing around 10-12 hours a night (does vary a bit, an average day would be around 11hrs). She does go through phases of frequent dummy waking but I think they're related to other issues she has sometimes because she clearly wants to sleep still and doesn't wake up in the night for milk or to stay awake for any period of time, just wants to go straight back to sleep. So I don't think it's true that more daytime sleep always leads to more nighttime sleep. For her, it doesn't make any difference whether she's had 4 hours of daytime sleep (extremely rare! probably happened about 5 times ever since she was about 3 weeks old), or 1 hour of daytime sleep, her nighttime sleep is unaffected.