Anyone mind sharing their 5/6 month old feed&sleep schedule?

[Chocoholism]

My 5 month old seems to be wanting to change a bit and I'm not sure where she going with it,
If you wouldn't mind giving me brief run down

7am wake and feed
8am solilds
Play and cuddles
9am nap
10am wake and play
10:30am milk feed
11:15am solids
12:30-1:30pm sleep
2:30pm milk
4:00-4:30 sleep
5pm solids
5:45pm bath
6:30 milk
7 sleep

Wow Mamabear! What a cracking routine. Just watching thread with interest as this is our current routine (DS is 20 weeks on Sunday)
10-11pm(or whenever we go to bed)- dreamfeed
6-7am wake and feed
6-7am-10-11pm- whatever he damn well pleases!!!!!!!
It has been ok up to now-DS is fed on demand and, as he's slept through from 12 weeks, we haven't stressed too much about sleep. However recently he's started to get over tired and really upset about it-naps and in the evening- so we're looking to try and establish some sort of routine.

Hi Choco
My DD has just turned 5 mths and this is hers:
7am-ish: wake and feed
9am-9.45: nap in cot
10.45am: feed and now a bit of solids
12-2: nap in cot
2.30: feed
4.30-5: nap in buggy (she will NEVER accept this one in her cot!)
5.15: solids
6.10: bath
6.30: feed
6.50: bed
10.30: dream feed

Doesn't always go exactly to plan of course- I.e. We were out today and she only did an hour at lunch. She might also wake at 6/ bugger about in the night a bit by waking up. We don't feed her though- she normally settles after a pat/cuddle. What changes has your little one wanted to make? I think mine might drop her afternoon nap soonish (probably when the buggering about at night reduces )

My daughter is 21 weeks
Wakes between 6 and 7am
Feed
Play
Then two hours after wake time attempt to put her down for nap - she won't always go down (working on that!) but if she does will sleep for anything from 1-3 hours. If she doesn't have a morning nap she will usually have a long nap around lunchtime. If she has a long morning nap she won't usually have a long lunchtime nap. She won't usually have a late afternoon nap unless I take her out in the pram.
I feed her about every three to for hours in the day, then try to start her bedroom routine between 6 and 7. This involves either a bath or just changing into pjs and feed to sleep in our bedroom. This feed usually takes 45 min to an hour. She's usually asleep by about 8pm and will sleep for about five hours, wake once for a feed then back to sleep til the morn. She doesn't alwAys settle straight back to sleep, I think she's becoming hungrier now. Last night she didn't go to sleep til 9pm and slept for 7 hours straight, her longest yet. So there's some semblance of a routine, but I'm trying to get her napping more regularly.
What's your routine?

6 months old... This is a "good" day (ie. all goes how I would like it in an ideal world - and often does work out that way, thank goodness!)

7ish - wake and have milk feed
8 - solids
9-10:30 - nap
11 - milk
12ish - solids
1-1:40 - nap
3 - milk
4-4:45 - nap
5ish - solids
6:15 - bath
6:30 - milk and then bed.

Unfortunately at the moment she has taken to waking at between 5:30 and 6:30am (doh!!) which obviously changes things a bit, but it follows more or less the same pattern.

Well my DD has also taken to waking up at 5-5.30 am and it's doing my in!
She wakes but I try settle her mostly unsuccessfully until we get out of bed at 6.30
7am feed
8am nap to 8.45-9

10.30 feed
11.00 nap to 11.45-12.00

1.30 feed
2.00 nap to 2.30-2.45

4.15 feed
4.30 30 min nap

6.45 feed
7.00-7.30 sleep

10.30 dream feed

We haven't started solids yet
And she mostly naps for 45 mins to an hour
But recently on some days has longer naps and only 3 naps instead of the 4. Wonder if I need to encourage that somehow and whether the Dreamfeed should be dropped

chocoholism we dropped the dream feed at about 5.5 months on a complete whim. We had talked lots about how best to drop it, whether to just get rid or whether to make it earlier and less volume. She had been waking about 15-30 mins before the dream feed was due. One night, she didn't wake beforehand and we decided not to give it and see what happened. And lo and behold, she slept straight the way through (not a complete miracle, she had already been sleeping through with the DF). So maybe try dropping it and if no joy, reintroduce it.

Mine is a 40 minute catnapper as well. The morning nap is the only one that we ever manage to get longer from her. She will start to stir after 40 minutes, but if I hover outside her room, the second I hear her stir I rush in, pop the dummy back if needs be and shh-pat and she often gets another 40 minutes. Never works for any of the other naps though.

Interesting lozza they sound similar, can I ask if she was already on solids when you stopped the Dreamfeed?
Please please please tell me if you find a solution to the early wake up! Zzzzzz

Hi OP
Both mine dropped their late afternoon nap at 5/6 months (going from 3 naps to 2 a day), is this what's happening maybe? We were no longer dream feeding at this age either, though I was paying for it with a regular 3am wake up call!

I'm not in a set routine with my DD, she'll be 6 months on the 23rd but it's usually

9/10ish 9oz bottle
11ish nap for 30 mins
12.30ish 9oz bottle
1ish nap for a good few hours
5pm porridge and fruit purée
6pm bath
Maybe another cat nap
7pm bottle
Bed is anything between 8-11 but once she's asleep that's her all night.

I also have a 2 yr old so she's alway too nosey watching him for naps lol or he makes too much noise and wakes her.

choco she was having a very small amount of solids when we dropped the dream feed, tasters rather than anything particularly substantial. And I just realised she was actually nearer 6 months than 5.5 months when we dropped it.

No solution to the early rising, this morning it is wide awake at 5:15 (our earliest wake up yet!) Trying to figure out what the heck to try next. I wonder if she's getting too much daytime sleep now (although it amounts to less than 3 hours in total) but with waking up two hors earlier than usual, I can't for the life of me picture how we might get through the day on just two naps, especially when she is a cat napper!

Thanks for posting the routines girls! Ds is six months and I'm finding it difficult to fit in bottles and solids into his awake times...feels like all I do is feed him. Will give some of the above a go.

Some days she wants 3 longer naps and some days it's 4 shorter ones but I don't really know how to settle her in cot too well as I suppose I'm just not patient enough and find it easier to cuddle her or go out in pram but the early rising
Is really hard, I tried later bed time but that was hassle and she still woke at 5ish. Currently trying to blackout windows, could it be a phase or is it something I have to get used to?

choco Lots of people (in books - haha) seem to say that an early wake can be fixed by an earlier bedtime. Counterintuitive I know, but if they're over tired, then they can be too wired to fall back to sleep when they wake in their lightest sleep period, which is just before waking for the day at 4-5ish.
smoke I agree! it does feel like all you're doing is feeding and feeding between sleeps! but this only lasts a little while as they start to drop milk feeds and naps.

Since 6mo my DS2 (now almost 7 months) has been...
630 wake
7 BF
8 solids
915 nap in cot
1015 wake, play
1030 BF, play
1115/30 solids, play
1215 nap in cot
1400 wake, play
1430 BF
Play, go out for a walk, whatever
1700 solids
1745 half BF (one side)
1815 bath, other side BF, story, cuddle bed for 1900

I have a 3.7 month old too and this works quite well around preschool etc.

Yes I heard that about early bedtime but she goes down at about 7 usually after a bottle at 6.30 ish. Don't think I can do any earlier can I?? Sometimes she goes back to sleep if I rock her, could it be she has trouble self settling?