Can you post your 7 month old routine from 8 am?

[Mom2X&F&V]

Hiya... Everyone´s easy starts at 7 am, but my dh and dd wake up at 7:30 and do not want to disturb her sleep, but I do want dd to go to bed before 8 pm so does anyone have any suggestion on this please? Another question... I know it its important to first give milk and then solids why is it? Dd is not a good eater and the only way she started to have milk again was giving it after solids is there any problem? otherwise she wont have milk at all.  thanks.

[Livingmom]

Hello Sparklingeyes, probably can't help much with the schedule. On days that dh and I go to work--our day starts with lo at around 6:30 am. But on weekends and holidays--we get up around 7:30/8:00am. We have come to the point that we basically just follow a 4 hour routine from the time she wakes up so it looks something like this:

7:30 wake up/8oz. bottle
Activity
8:00 solids--fruit and rice
Activity
9:00/9:30--nap
11:00 6oz bottle
Activity
12:00 Lunch--veggies/fruits
Activity
1:00--Nap
3:30--6oz. bottle
Activity
5:00 Dinner
Activity/Bath
7:00 8oz bottle
7:30/8:00 bedtime

We, just this week, dropped the dreamfeed cold turkey and she sleeps through the night just fine--but she is hungrier in the morning (obviously).

As for the milk before solids thing--I think I have read that it doesn't really matter what order it comes--just that lo gets the nutrients that s/he needs. I could be wrong--though.

HTH a little.

[HeatherC]

My dd has almost always been on an 8-8 schedule, which is fine by me b/c I like to stay up late and sleep in later.  She tends to wake around 7:30, and I start getting her up and changed around 7:45 so that we're eating around 8.  Anyway, as best as I can remember, our schedule at 7 months was probably like this:
8:00 solids then bottle
10-12 nap
12 solids then bottle
2-4 nap
4:00 bottle
5:30 solids (wanted her to get used to eating around the time I have dinner)
7:15 bottle
8:00 bed

Of course, naps weren't always 2 hrs long, but she went through a good spell of that.  If she didn't nap that long, she just has some more A time before the next feeding.  Since starting solids, she's done better to have them before the bottle.  If I noticed she wasn't finishing her bottles, I'd back off on the solids for a few meals until she got back on track.  Some babies do better with them together, so do better to space them out.  Mine wouldn't eat solids an hour after a bottle, and if she did, she'd spit up during a nap.

[Noelle]

HI - you should be able to find more schedules here 

http://www.babywhisperer.com/forum/sample-easy-routines-6-12-months-vt10386.html

Also...no problem starting the day at 7:30     Both of my kiddos went to bed at 7pm.  When I work, days start at 6:30.  On days I don't, I let Zoe sleep in (she slept til 9:30 this weekend  :shock: ).  I just tweak EASY to make sure she has enough A time to be tired at 7