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Moms - help?
How did you establish a routine with your LO? Should I be trying to do this already? Right now, it is eating-sleeping and that is it but should there be some sort of bedtime routine? We are both home from work, so it is sort of just do what you need to do, and since she is sleeping in our room right now, she goes to bed with Kevin (since he stays up later with her, while I go to bed a little earlier and then get up with her during the night).
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Re: Moms - help?
Right now you are doing what I did. When Hayden started eating consistanting then I started with our routine. We are finally (at almost 6 months) getting a schedule down.
At bedtime, which in my house the routine starts around 5:30 -6 every night, Hayden now eats dinner and has a bath (if it is bath night). We try to let him play on the floor or sit in his high chair when we eat. Then I give him a bottle because I pump at night for the next day. Usually he falls asleep taking his bottle if not I rock him until he does. I know I should put him in his crib when he is almost alseep but I only get to snuggle with him once a day right now so I think it is ok. He usually is in his crib by 7:30-8 at the latest. One reason we do this so early is because we are up at 4:30 every morning to get ready for work, so I need sleep!
If you wanted to start some kind of routine you could start at night and feed her then a bath then if she needed to wait and feed her again so she has a full belly to go to sleep. It might sound crazy but with Hayden I would change his clothes to a footed sleeper when it was bedtime since he was a newborn and it seemed like that told him ok it is time to settle down and go to bed, it has worked this far so maybe try that if you are having problems.
She is still a new baby, so things are going to be a little out of wack for a few weeks, but I know you are doing great!
Don't worry about setting a strict routine until about 4 weeks. Declinn happened to settle into a routine of eating and sleeping every 3hrs on her own early. It is difficult to expect her to have a routine right off the bat, if she gets into one early great, if not, no big deal. All she is going to do for the first 3 months is eat and sleep, so don't think you are doing anything wrong. We did have a bedtime routine that we did of eating in the dark, being swadled, book, etc. This is probably the only routine you should have at this point. They say this helps the baby get used to day and night and understanding which is which.
Meg, Charlotte is so adorable. Enjoy her. And you can always ask us for advice whenever you need it.