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9 months old - why can't we get into a sleep/feed/nap routine??

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Cornberry · 12/06/2016 16:07

hello, we are struggling a great deal with routine :( there seems to be very little pattern to baby's activity, appetite and tiredness and we are at our wits' end. At the moment baby usually goes to sleep between 9 and 10 pm, and wakes four hours later, and recently she's been very hard to put to sleep again, sometimes it's taken us three hours. On those days she ends up sleeping until 9 or 10 am and the whole day is messed up. because I am horrendously sleep deprived, I can't interrupt this as I am so desperate to sleep as well.. I have no idea how we impose a routine on her. WE have just recently dropped her night feeds - some nights she's been fine and gone back to sleep within 5 mins, others she has screamed until fed. I don't know what to do! She also seems to not want to eat sometimes and we don't know if we should insist or not... Anyone know what is the ideal routine for a 9 month old? and how to make her stick to it?

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sycamore54321 · 23/06/2016 02:45

Another vote for the 2-3-4 routine - my baby thrived on it at this age. In our version, we just let the first nap go on as long as he needed. Another version suggests you wake the baby after 45 minutes for the first nap to encourage a bigger consolidated midday nap. I know it seems restrictive while settling in to a new routine but I think it's worth it. Strangely a routine allowed me be more spontaneous and free as I knew what mood he'd be in to suit different activities at different times of the day.

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