Morning to bedtime routine

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My little one is now 3 months and he sleeps throughout the night a whole 12 hours. Thought id share my routine for any mummys looking for tips :)

7:30am wakes and has a 6oz bottle usually finishes by 8:00am
8:00am -9:00am he likes to play. Whilst im having my breakfast.
9:00am :12:00. He will usually take a nap whilst i get all my housework, cooking etc done.
12:00 he will have another 6oz bottle i will then change him for the day and quickly have some lunch myself.
1:00pm we usually go out, run errands, go to the park or into town do some shopping visit family or friends etc. usually get back around 5ish.
5:00pm he will have another 6oz bottle finished about 5:30 and he will play or take a cat nap till 6:30 whilst i have my dinner.
6:30pm i get him ready for his bath. I bath him every night as i feel it helps him sleep better also love the smell of a clean baby haha. When out of the bath around 7:00pm i give him a little massage with baby oil as it helps relax his muscles and settle down for bed. By 7:30 he is in his pjs.
7:30pm last feed of the day a 6oz bottle and after that i lay him in his cot and read a book, although he dont understand i like doing it anyway. By 8:00pm latest he is in bed and sleeps throughout the whole night.
8:00pm have some me time!

Hope this helps remember every baby is different so may not settle into a routine just yet. Dont feel disheartened as im sure every mum is doing an amazing job :D

One word -JEALOUS!!!

Keep doing what your doing OP don't feel guilty for having a baby that sleeps. It's a recurring theme on here if your baby sleeps your either not doing something right or its just luck. What bollocks you've got your baby in a good routine where mum and baby are happy and healthy what's the problem with that????
I've got 3 dc all mine were in a bedtime routine early on and have all always been very goodsleepers have I been lucky or Is it that my routine actually worked for my dc who knows either way I'm a happy mum with 3 sleeping children. And for what it's worth I'd never heard of so called 4 m sleep regression until mumsnet not every child goes through it none of mine ever did.
Enjoy your sleeping Baby OP long may it continue xxxxx

Er no, not jealous. My second child is a very good sleeper thanks. But you wouldn't get me waxing lyrical about how my amazing mummy skills at getting him in a routine turned him into an amazing sleeping baby. It's one thing to post in response to another post about a routine that works for you, but to just post off the back of nothing, as if it's that simple to get your baby to sleep is not necessary. And smug. And patronising.

Bs ha ha. Come back in a couple of months and tell us how you're getting on...

but to just post off the back of nothing, as if it's that simple to get your baby to sleep is not necessary. And smug. And patronising.

This. We have a bedtime routine. We have a daytime routine to the extent that DD will follow one. Sentences like 'from 9-12 he'll have a nap' make me laugh, as mine has never napped that long since birth. That's not because I'm constantly poking her and waking her up or anything like that, she just doesn't nap that long. So there's no way on earth we could ever have a routine like the OP's. DD is currently up for the 3rd time since going to bed. That's not because of anything I do or don't do.
DD is EBF. Feeding her is not as simple as giving her 6oz every 3 hours. She regulates her own consumption so I feed her when she's hungry. This could be every hour, every 2 hours, she could want a top up after half an hour.

Yeah you haven't actually given any tips though... I mean, I could post what I do on a daily basis, but it wouldn't mean shit because all babies are different.

Yes I think that's the crucial difference...this baby is bottle fed and the OP doesn't realise how much easier it is to care for a bottle fed baby. It's actually quite mean to speak to bf mums as if they're not doing something right, just because their babies aren't in this perfect routine. With a bf baby you don't know how much milk he's getting at any time so you can't assume he's had enough. They don't tend to go as long between feeds because the milk is digested more quickly. They tend to be smaller/finer, and smaller babies don't tend to nap/sleep as long. It's completely different and much harder. I say this as a bottlefeeding mum with bf friends.

I agree with stopping as I've had one bf dd1 and now I'm bottle feeding dd2. While dd2 is getting breast milk I know how much each time which makes a difference.

Dd2 seems a better sleeper than dd1 because she's probably taking more per feed than dd1 did (and dd1 was a right bf snacker )

If you're doling out 'tips', have you got any advice on how to get my baby to nap longer than 40 minutes at a time? What did you do to promote longer naps? I would be very interested in tips on that.

Hello lillipot, tough going isn't it??

Ah the 40 minute naps!! The bane of my life! After trying everything I gave up and embraced them to save my own sanity. They do eventually outgrow them around the 6 month mark (sometimes bit later).

40 minutes would be glorious - I put my 4mo down the other day and she was awake after 10!

stopping I disagree, I've done both - END one for 14 months and FF another and would say FF far harder, very faffy with lots of prep to do. My END bsby was far bigger than my FF one and would go long stretches between feeds by 3 months. my FF baby at 4 months still doesn't go longer than 2 hours between feeds.

ALL babies are different, regardless of how they are fed. Routines work for some, but not for all. We can only do what's best for our child.I'm sure the OP meant well buy does come across extremely smug.

END should be EBF -bloody autocorrect

Yeah you haven't actually given any tips though... I mean, I could post what I do on a daily basis, but it wouldn't mean shit because all babies are different.

This. I doubt the OP is really going to be of help to anyone...

I had a wonderful sleeper at 3mo too. That lasted till about 1yr old and then it all changed. Dd has only just started sleeping through the night again this week, she's 2 next week.

Op, I wouldn't jinx yourself just yet! Also, it has nothing to do with routine, it's down to luck and what "type" of baby you have. Obviously, a poor routine may not settle a baby and may influence bad sleeping habits. But a good routine doesn't automatically equal good sleep.

OpP, have you posted much o MN before? (Using the app and don't know how to check a users history). If not I think you have just been baptised by fire.

Your very clearly a first time mum. Congratulations on your baby. Congratulations on recovering from pregnancy/birth so well and quite quickly.
My dd is 3, DS is 1. I'm still recovering from a prolapsed bladder, distended uterus and other pregnancy/birth related bodily issues.
These I take into consideration in my children's temperaments because this causes me stress - which has a knock on effect for the babies.

Both mine were/are breast fed. This does make a HUGE difference as they don't sleep so well. But my babies have packed on weight, jumping centiles solely on my breast milk so much so that a community midwife brought a student round to see my dd, same CM saw DS and remembered my dd. But then my babies fed constantly!
Dd never slept through til almost 1, and then often woke up wanting cuddles/company til about 4 months ago. Sometimes still does.
DS did sleep, from about 5months
. Until 6 months. And he regularly wakes 2-3 times a night now. Usually ending up taking over in my bed!!

Your post could be misconstrued as smug, I think it's naive. But I think your very pleased and wanted to share. That's fine. I'm pleased for you.
Do watch out though, take this sleeping through as an element that can - and often does - change overnight!
You have growth spurts, sleep regressions, teething to come.
Then there's learning to roll, sit, crawl, stand, cruise, walk, talk... These things can and often do disrupt sleep as babies brain keeps working on it whilst they sleep.

Hope it continues for you!

Wheres they only last 40 mins if she's in the sling. If I put her down it's less than 3!

Now Grotbag I may be a jaded second time mother and horrid to boot, but I leave my three and a half month old to 're-settle' if he hasn't slept nearly long enough and definitely isn't in pain. He doesn't have a choice about when the nap ends (if it's far too early or much sooner than I know he would sleep in the sling).

Obviously I can't control when I wakes but what I mean is he eventually gets bored and goes back to sleep.

when he wakes, sorry...

Also a second time mother, and generally can't leave her as usually the only chance I get to actually put her down to nap (as opposed to sleeping in pram etc while out and about) is while toddler is napping and it wakes her up.

stopping doesn't your baby just scream his head off when he wakes up?

Grotbag - are you sure you don't have my children?

Erm, I have just noticed that the OP started a thread about considering weaning her baby at 3 months as he has 6 feeds of hungry baby formula a day and is still hungry. I can only see 4 feeds mentioned in this thread

I am confused!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/parenting/a2485952-when-can-i-start-feeding-my-baby-solids#57029665

postereh He does protest. I don't mind protesting crying. Can't tolerate scared crying or in pain crying but protest crying/angry crying I can listen to if it's for a good cause (such as his being well rested). But I wasn't like this the first time.

I thought I'd seen the username before! Clearly couldn't be arsed to search tho