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Sleep schedule for 14wo- is this ok?

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KikiShack · 18/01/2014 09:32

I'm hoping for views on this sleep schedule as nights are getting steadily worse, so I'm trying to make days as good as possible in the hope nights will follow.
All times are approx obviously...and most are baby led (ie looking for sleep cues, but they always start about 1hr 20 after waking, so it all depends how quickly I can boob/buggy/sling DD to sleep)

7am Wake
8.30 Nap
11 Wake
12.30 Nap
14.15 Wake
16.00 Nap
17.30 Wake and start sleep routine of gentle walks round house, then bath, massage, boob and bed. Ideally sleep by 7.15ish, though this never happens.

Depending on the day if DD woke a bit earlier and/or one or more of the naps were short then she might fit a catnap in at 6-6.30 then start bedtime routine aiming for 8pm bedtime.

So basically we aim for wake at 6.30-7, about 5 to 6 hours of naps (this is normally achieved, though sometimes in 3 long naps, other times 4 or even 5 shorter ones), then sleep at 7.30 is our aim.
Bedtime never happens, we normally get her down at 8.30 -9 (often very grouchy and overtired) but she will often wake 1, 2, or more times before we go to bed at 10.30ish. Then sometimes she wakes just twice for food, other times she wakes a lot more!
She is ebf, huge (~19lbs) and generally quite happy I think- no real crying except at bedtime when we are all tired!
Any thought very much appreciated! Her naps were much worse but evenings much better before xmas and going away, then we targeted naps to get things back on track and its all gone wrong...

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KikiShack · 18/01/2014 15:26

hopeful bump

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Dentistmummy · 18/01/2014 15:48

Ok, I too have a 14 week old, and this is my usual...
Wake 6 am and then throughout the day she shows sleepy cues after 60 mins of being awake and then has 45-60 min naps. So she has similar amount of nap time in total but normally more over 5-6 little naps. We however do bed time at 6pm and in bed for 6.30 at the latest. The reason I do it so early is she is never happy after 6pm so I tried it one day and she stayed asleep.
She has her naps mainly in the cot, but sometimes sling or pram.
She doesn't yet self settle (either boob/sling) and is also ebf.
At 6pm I go into a dark room with white noise (where she has most of her naps) do a bit of a massage, get her dressed for bed, swaddle her (she doesn't like sleeping in cot without a swaddle), feed her to sleep and then put her in her cot (90% she stays asleep! other 10% may need 5 mins extra if doesn't settle or wake in the first 60 mins)
I don't do a bedtime bath as this only works her up (when so tired) so I do that in a morning instead as a fun thing not a wind down thing.
Through the night she wakes for a feed twice (1ish and 3ish)
From reading your post the naps sound great, but was wondering does she ever nap in her cot (and if she doesn't could you try getting her used to this?), and should you move bedtime much earlier like we do? Hope that helps xxx

plentyofsoap · 19/01/2014 16:16

My dd and sounds similar with not settling until 10 ish. I do bedtime routine but she is still cluster feeding in the evenings.

starfish12 · 19/01/2014 19:07

DS is also 14 weeks, we've by no means cracked it as hes a crap sleeper but his naps are roughly...

Get to sleep by 1.5 hours of first waking. This used to be in the sling where he'd have 2 hours however now hes too heavy I have to put him down so he only has 45 mins as cant self settle and wakes up after a sleep cycle.

awake for 2 hours

Then a couple of hours in the pram from about 12 till 2pm.

awake for 2 hours

Then pm is an hour or 45 mins back in the pram at 4pm. Bath at 615 with aim to be asleep at 7pm.

He wakes anywhere between 2 and 6 times a night and gets up about half 7am.

Your schedule looks good to me, tho I would say to always have a fixed bedtime so dont bother with the 6pm nap as it might be too late for napping?

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