do we need a routine?

[chumbler]

dd is 10 weeks. we are very much baby led in terms of feeding (ebf on demand) and sleeping. we don't have any set nap times, and she might nap for an hour or so around lunch time but that's all (She sleeps for a while after feeds on me...) we have bath time at 8pm followed by skin to skin feeds - at night she cluster feeds but this seems to last longer and longer, sometimes til 11/12pm. she sleeps for about 2 hours at a time, waking for feeds. this is all OK but I was wondering of we need more of a sleep routine now she's getting older or shall we keep following her lead completely? I wonder if life could be a little easier if we had more of a routine??

should say, she USED to sleep for 2 hours at a time but the last couple of weeks she just seems hungry all night

Do what works for you both.

I guess the daytime is fine by me, but I would like more sleep at night (who wouldn't?!) and maybe a more predictable pattern would help me to get things done (probably not!) I just don't know where to start, especially as we ate generally OK. does that make sense?!

we ARE generally OK

the more I read the more paranoid I'm getting, should we be having better nights by now??

She is still tiny. Google 4th trimester - interesting read!

We have been totally baby-led and DD is nearly 21 months. She now sleeps fine at night, nothing I've done to encourage that really.

Do what works for you as a family.

Good luck!

OK I'll read up on it. I tell myself we're fine as we are but then read about babies sleeping through the night and have to wonder! but we're all happy thanks

We still co-sleep, much to family and friends' horror. It works for us, and we have no set routine as such.
You may find everything becomes a bit more "routiney" once you start her on solids, but until then I would not get hung up on what books/ internet say. Your DD, after all, has not read the books around what she "should" be doing.