Hi all,
My DS is 5 months old and I've found myself getting muddled with his sleep/nap/feeding routine.
Currently, his bedtime routine is quite... 'routined'! He has a bath at about 7pm, sometimes a book if he isn't too grumpy and then drops off quite easily between 7 and 7.30.
For example, a typical day look loosely like this (I've started from bedtime as it's easier to explain...):
7.30pm: bedtime (this is the easiest, most reliable part of the day.)
Somewhere between 3:30 - 5am: stirs from sleep (I never know whether this should be a bottle because at 3:30, it feels like the middle of the night and one of his 5 bottles from the day before, yet 5 feels like morning and the first bottle of the next day!)
Anywhere from 4 - 6:00 wakes up (again, I don't know what to do here. Is DS awake for the day, or is it still classed as a night waking?!)
He then tends to nap after being awake for 2-3.5 hours at a time throughout the day, which equals about 4 hours of daytime sleep altogether. However, the times and durations of these vary so much, I don't know if I'm coming or going. I just watch out for sleepy cues and then put him down for a nap.
He feeds every four hours but again, this varies so much depending on what I do in the night/early morning. I can't decide what's best!
Thanks in advance for any advice! 😅