Breastfeeding bedtime routine??

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My daughter is almost 5 months old and I'm trying to give her a set nap and bedtime routine it's currently
8 awake
11 to 12 nap
2 to 3 nap
5 to 6 nap
8 bed

I am EBF she goes down for naps awake and does awesome but bedtime is a different story because she wants to cluster feed and does till around 11 and when I try to make her cluster feed after her last nap she freaks out then at 8 she goes to bed and wakes at 9 thinking it was just a nap and wants to be awake and eat Iv only been doing this routine for 2 days so I know it's early but I wanted to see if there were any other EBF moms with the same problem and how they over came it my daughter was a big girl born 10 pounds and 24 in long and is now 19 pounds and 26.5 in long my bedtime routine is wake feed bath feed book bed and it works great till she wakes up an hour later and doesn't want to go back to sleep I have an air purifier in her room that gives white noise and have a nightlight and was thinking about taking out the night light but I don't know please help! Also I don't like the cry it out method but I am ok with whine it out and am not looking for her to sleep through the night if she does great if she doesn't not a big deal mainly just want the bedtime routine to stick

My DS is 6mo and we've started weaning but he was and is otherwise EBF. We went through this (and a lot worse) maybe stope the last nap? If she's getting 2 solid naps earlier in the day the last one might be what's holding you up. You've got a gear routine otherwise though I'd say, but maybe try and leave a bit of wiggle room so that perhaps the second nap could eventually be later and third cut out.
HTH

Stop and great* not gear!

Ok I'll try that I'm just worried about her having a melt down from being over tired im going to stick to my routine for a week and see if she catches on and if no luck I'll cut out that last nap

I wonder if she might already be overtired. I'd have thought she would need more than 3 hours of naps in the day. My DD is just a couple of weeks younger and her day is roughly like this;

7am awake
9 -10 nap
11.30ish - 2.30 ish nap
3.30-4.30 nap
5.30 bath
6pm last feed
7pm asleep

I found the important thing was to
Teach her the difference between day and night. I did this by putting her in a grobag and making sure she has quiet time before bed. It took about 2 weeks to establish the routine.

Good luck!

I just started the routine last night it used to be bed at around 11 and she woke up around 11 she doesn't sleep longer than an hour for naps I don't know if she's just mad because I'm switching up her bedtime so drastically and in a week or two it will be better I read early bedtimes were good for baby's so I thought I'd give it a try Id have to put her down for a nap like every hour I don't know how to get her to nap longer she used to nap for 2 hours when she was younger ugh I'm so confused did you have to switch her bedtime drastically or did you always have it the way it is

She also used to only wake up once at night until christmas and she's up like 3 or 4 times a night

I used to make a note of when she naturally fell asleep for the long nighttime sleep - initially it was around 10pm, so I started the routine then in order to get the right associations (ie grobag, quiet time etc) and gradually pulled it forward to 7pm over the two week period.

I was going to gradually pull it back but decided to try and just move it right to 8 last night she woke up an hour later and screamed and ate till11 and tonight she woke up an hour later and I fed her she ate for half an hour and fell asleep again then 10 mins later woke up Gain I'm feeding her now hopefully she will get that she's staying in bed this time fingers crossed!

I hate to say it but the waking through the night might be her age. I posted a few weeks ago, at my wits end about feeding and sleep and got a good response, with people mainly saying that between 4 and 6 months they have a big growth spurt. It may be why your dd is eating more. Have you notice/ do you feel like sometimes there perhaps isn't enough in your breasts to feed her? I know, along with the sleep regression, that my ds became a bit frantic with feeding for about a week until my supplies increased.

And I only say about reducing the naps because my ds only sleeps for about 2 hours during the day and before he used to sleep for 4-5 at around the same times. He now does approx:
Wake/bf 8am
Breakfast 8.30
Lunch 12.30
Nap 1-2
Bf 2pm (big feed)
Nap 4-5
Dinner 5.30
Bath 6.30
Bf 7/7.30
Bed 8pm
Bf 11.30

He also wakes 1-3 times during the night, so depending on that last feeding during the night things can shift an hour either way but I try and stay relaxed about it.

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I did think it was a growth spurt but this has lasted a month straight I read that around 4 months that babies often wake more because their rem cycle changed and because they are practicing rolling over and sitting up and stuff that they wake themselves up doing so and omg I wish mine would go that long between feedings she eats every hour she's a hungry girl and I know it's hunger because I do all the checks and play with her to see if shes just bored but everything ends up in crying until I feed her then she's happy again

I know that I might get flamed for this but have you considered weaning early? My HV suggested it when nothing ds was relentless with feeding.he was 5mo and I started by giving him just one meal a day and increased it to 3 within the month, so now at 6 months he eats 3 meals and is comfortable with lumps. Other than that I'm not sure what else to suggest

I really want to wait till 6 months if she was miserable all day I'd consider it but she can't even sit unsupported yet either so I'm going to wait

Completely fair enough, if I didn't feel like I had to I wouldn't have. Good luck

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