8 week old no pattern emerging

[Bleepers]

Hi, I'm a first time mum just looking for a bit of advice. My 8 week old baby is healthy and happy but has absolutely no routine except for we've just started getting her up at 7am every day. I was thinking of doing the EASY routine but she doesnt really follow the pattern of eating then active then sleeping. I really don't mind going with the flow as it seems ludicrous to impose a routine on a tiny baby but I would just love a bit of a reassurance that these more obvious sleep and feeding patterns will arise!

Hi!

I don't really have any advice but I'm just going to share my experience. My baby is 6 mo but we still don't follow a "routine". My baby wakes up at some time between 6-8 am. Then I keep her awake for the age appropriate time, then put her to nap and so on until bedtime. Her bedtime is between 6-8 pm. It has worked fantastically for us so far. When my dd was 2 mo she had about 4-5 naps per day.

I fed her about every 2,5 hours during the day. Because her naps were not uniform in length (and after 3,5 mo they became uniformly very short) the EASY pattern was impossible to follow. The EASY schedule is not for everyone and you don't need to adhere to it religiously. I found that my baby slept better if I fed her not long before nap time.

I wouldn't trouble yourself with a routine yet. There's no need per se.

I am the same as @Tatasmum my baby is nearly 5 months and we don't really have a routine. The only thing we do have is a set bedtime of 7, but around that it's a free for all in terms of feeding and naps. I just feed on demand (bottle fed), and have him up for around 1.5-2 hours between each nap (so we have 4 a day currently as he likes super short naps!) EASY doesn't and never has worked for us because of this, but I have found things have got better as he got older and things have drawn out a little. So he can take a little longer between feeds now, and also last a little longer awake. I assume we will fall into a more predictable pattern at some point but am still waiting for that!

With my dd she got into a routine by about 12 weeks. She was bottle fed from 6 weeks and the routine was baby-led from her hunger and sleep cues.
Though as she got older the routine changed several times.

Ds is 7 months now and breastfed on demand. He doesn’t really have a noticeable routine.... perhaps because he just has to fit in with dd (school runs etc) whereas I fit everything around dd when she was a baby.

I think it will definitely emerge but it’s a bit “how long is a piece of string” as to when that’ll happen!

Same as the others really. The only routine we instigated was a bedtime one at 3 months old and the rest sort of fell into place over time (with a bit of cajoling from me!) We also couldn’t follow EASY at that age.
I also just follow the age appropriate awake time and made sure he naps when he shows tired signs (which was quite often a lot sooner than the experts say!). He had 4x cat naps a day for a long time. He fed every 2 to 3 hours right up until 5 months.
He’s 9 months now and generally wakes up between 6 and 7, bottle, breakfast, play, nap, bottle, play, lunch, nap, play, tea, (sometimes a third cat nap), bottle, bath, bed by 6.30.

With groups and going out added in there too. He naps better nowadays with two longer ones rather than four short ones. And still can only stay awake about 2.5 hours.
I really wouldn’t worry too much at 8 weeks - it all falls into place and you get used to their ways!!