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Baby’s routine help

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Cottagegal · 16/01/2025 14:40

Hi, I’m a bit embarrassed but my baby is 9 months and we don’t have a set routine. I just follow his flow but I feel like it will be detrimental to continue this way. He has bottles every few hours and solids 3 x a day an hour after a bottle (breakfast, snack like fruit purée, dinner). The other issue is my partner works until 11pm, so we stay up late until about 2am so we can spend time together. During this time the baby sleeps in the living room with us or in my arms because I’m worried about him being upstairs alone. Plus when he wakes needing a bum change or bottle my partner gets to see him, other wise they’d never see eachother. So I go to bed at about 2 and get woken up by the baby any time between 8-11 am. The baby goes to sleep around 10 pm, wakes around 12:30 am, back to sleep latest by 2 am then sleeps right through until the morning. He has around 3 naps a day but not at any set time just when he gets tired. Does anyone have a routine where their baby wakes up at like 8/9 am? If he wakes up earlier I’d either have to sacrifice time with my partner or be very tired. Idk what to do 😔🥲

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mrsed1987 · 16/01/2025 22:55

My ds is 9 months also and our routine is a bit like this but it does change depending on if we have appointments or baby groups.

8am - wake up and bottle
9am - breakfast
10.30am till 12.30pm - nap
12.30pm bottle
4pm - 5pm - nap
5pm - bottle
6pm - dinner
8pm - bottle and bed
11pm - bottle (not always)

NeedSomeComfy · 16/01/2025 23:01

Cottagegal · 16/01/2025 14:40

Hi, I’m a bit embarrassed but my baby is 9 months and we don’t have a set routine. I just follow his flow but I feel like it will be detrimental to continue this way. He has bottles every few hours and solids 3 x a day an hour after a bottle (breakfast, snack like fruit purée, dinner). The other issue is my partner works until 11pm, so we stay up late until about 2am so we can spend time together. During this time the baby sleeps in the living room with us or in my arms because I’m worried about him being upstairs alone. Plus when he wakes needing a bum change or bottle my partner gets to see him, other wise they’d never see eachother. So I go to bed at about 2 and get woken up by the baby any time between 8-11 am. The baby goes to sleep around 10 pm, wakes around 12:30 am, back to sleep latest by 2 am then sleeps right through until the morning. He has around 3 naps a day but not at any set time just when he gets tired. Does anyone have a routine where their baby wakes up at like 8/9 am? If he wakes up earlier I’d either have to sacrifice time with my partner or be very tired. Idk what to do 😔🥲

As long as the baby is getting as much sleep, food, love and cuddles as they need then I think you're doing fine! Why are you so worried about it? At some point you'll have to get into more of a routine of course, if the baby goes to a childcare setting or you start having regular things you need to go to (like baby classes etc), but if you don't have that now and you've found a way that works for your family then I would say just enjoy it.
Personally I would have found it stressful not to have a routine but each to their own!

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