Sleep schedule for newborn?

[TGLucie]

Hello!

I've seen so many different sleep schedules and we want to find some recommendations for sleep patterns/training.

Baby not due for a few more months but want to get some ideas so we can put a rough plan in place.

As others have said, but here are some tips for the newborn stage:

Encourage a bright, busy daytime and get baby out in natural daylight where possible. Conversely, keep nighttime quiet, calm and dark. Feed, speak quietly and don't be too stimulating during the night, and straight back to bed. This will help baby's circadian rhythm adjust to learn night from day.

Swaddling really does help newborns sleep in my personal experience. I rated the 'swaddle up' by Love to Dream and credit it with getting me and baby some extra sleep! We used it up until the point he was rolling.

At about three months, I introduced a set bedtime and wake time, and naps slowly stabilised and formed a pattern from there. The bedtime was 8/9pm at the time (the slightly later bedtime tends to work better for younger babies and naturally becomes earlier as they get a bit older).

You probably won't see much of a pattern beyond feed and sleep for a while! It gets easier though!

Another thing is to look up appropriate wake windows and aim for a nap after baby has been awake for so long.

[quote Cleverpolly3]@FATEdestiny
I did almost ask if you were in fact a baby whisperer

Sorry but three kids later I just roll my eyes at this sort of thing but great if it works for you perhaps my kids are just Duracell bunnies or the infant equivalent of Thatcher and her minimal sleep rations[/quote]
Im a baby and toddler Sleep Consultant and long term visitor to the Mumsnet Sleep board. I have 4 children currently aged between 6-16.

I am humbled by the title Baby Whisperer after the late Tracy Hogg. I respect her ethos (unlike that of GF!).

😂 Newborns don't have a schedule and they certainly don't stick to one you try and enforce 😂

[quote maryberryslayers]@Ginfilledcats what tracker app do you use please? [/quote]
I use Baby Tracker x

If you are planning I would plan for your own sleep. Make sure your room has good blinds or curtains and is a nice place for you to nap. If it’s noisy think about what you can do (soft furnishings absorb sound, maybe a book case against the wall to the noisy neighbours)

Hi OP

I can see there are some posts that might make you feel crap on here but a lot of people probably had their own naive versions of your questions when they were pregnant and are forgetting the benefit of hindsight.

There is no harm in reading things like the baby whisperer sleep to get informed and then decide what you hope to do when the time is right.

swaddling - again, very individual.

dc 1 would screma if swaddled, he was a huge baby (over 10lbs and was late arriving and and very long, he had been so squashed in the womb, that his prefered position was flat on his back with both arms stretched out above his head and legs akimbo. He filled the moses nbasket and got annoyed if the sides were in the way of his hands. He was in his big cot (and my bed) after a couple of weeks.

dc 2 loved being swaddled.

and yet more people saying newborns don't need playtime until 3 months.
3 months! Good grief at 3 months I have videos of my babies laughing and interacting with people.
None of mine were these sleepy feeding machines, awake, looking round and wanted to see everything. (well 2 out of 3, dc2 was pretty sleepy, but only for a couple of weeks)

Every baby is different. That is OK