Hi Hayley-thanks for sharing your name, as it is easier to type than LBM :lol: Anyhow, I am posting Taylor's schedule below. I am in no way sayign we have things perfected, as we still have our days, believe me! But in general this routine has been working pretty well for us the last month and a half, with a lil tweaking here and there. BTW, hope the new hair cut is what you always dreamed of!
Kate-totally hear you on the addiction to the site! Last week I was wondering if I could get fired for constantly logging onto the internet to go to the site, but since I quit, I guess it really doesn't matter!
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BTW Nancy-glad to see you here in this forum as well. Nice to know I am not the only one jumping between 2 threads. Hope you got the car fixed.
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T's schedule:wake between 7-7:30 am-feed
A-get dressed, go on a long mellow walk (we never divert from this, but with winter coming we'll have to think of something else-good thing we live in SoCal!) I always keep this A time very mellow with nothing stimulating besides the walk. We usually end up spending another 20 minutes just walking around the house talking after our walk-but no toys/videos/etc.
Windown always consists of going to room, dimming lights, changing diaper and talking quietly on changing mat for abotu 15 mins. then lay her down on her side with a blankie. 50% of time doesn't need me at all to go to sleep, 50% needs me to pat her back/reposition her for a few minutes
S-9/9:30-10:30/11 am (I basically always keep her up 2 hours since the time she woke up)
11 am feed
A-this is where we get more stimulating with exersaucer/jumper/tummy time/run errands, etc... as long as we're not in the car she can stay up about 2-2.15 hours during this A period. Repeat windown
S-1-2:30ish (her second nap is usally 1.15-1.5 hours)
3 pm feed
A-more fun activities. I also find this a good time to run errands as well because if she falls asleep in the car for her catnap I don't feel so bad, as it is a "freebie"
S-catnaps are hard for us, as she has to be pretty tired to go down for them at home, or if we're in the car she has no problem of course. also, if she happens to take a long 2nd nap she usually will not take a catnap. I do keep trying to put her down for the catnap up until 6 pm, and after that I stop trying and just push up her bath/bedtime
6:30 pm feed-this is new for us over the last 2 weeks, as I used to always feed after her bath and she was sooooo fussy she wouldn't take a good feeding. Now I feed before bath and offer more after bath too.
A-7pm bath and pj's
7:15ish offer breast again as a kind of top off
S-between 7:30-7:45 pm
11 pm DF with EBM given by DH
Every few days she will wake up around 5 am and DH goes in and can usually get her back to sleep with some patting. She also was wakign before her 11 pm DF, but since I started feeding before her bath, that has stopped.
Sorry so long-I never knew I could be so long winded!!!
