Interested to know what sort of routines babies of a similar age to my DD are in?
I feel like we have hardly any routine at all and it keeps changing. At the minute nap times during the day vary so much, sometimes she doesn't nap at all for more than 10-20 mins and sometimes she'll had a 3 hour nap.
Bedtime also varies. At the minute she's getting fussy at around 7, we do a bath every other night then jammies bottle and cuddles up in bedroom with lights out and white noise. This normally takes about an hour-hour and a half so I'm putting her down at between 8-8:30. I then go downstairs with the monitor on and she'll normally sleep for about 20 mins - half an hour then wake up and need shh'd. Hubby and I take turns going up, giving her dummy and patting her back, then I go to bed around 10-11. She will sleep from I go to bed until between 3-5. If she makes it to 5 I normally get up with her and start our day. This morning I put her dummy in at 5 and she slept until 6:20 which was a first as normally she wakes up starving and won't settle without a feed.
Sometimes I just feel like I'm 'making a rod for my own back' as they say as I don't have a set routine and just go with the flow with her. People keep telling me how their kids slept from 7-7 at this age so am I doing something wrong or is this normal?