tomorrow we are starting a new schedule. currently katie's schedule is...
-6ish she wakes up and i nurse her back to sleep in bed with me till 830-9ish which is great for me cus i get to sleep in!
-9ish or whenever she wakes up again we do breakfast
-1030 i nurse her in hopes that she will go down for her nap
-by 11 she is hopefully sleeping for her morning nap
sometime between 12-130 she wakes up and we do lunch
then after lunch i have time to do errands and anything else because this is her awake time during the day
-by 330 she gets fussy so i nurse her
-by 330-4ish she goes down for a nap. sometimes its for 45 minutes sometimes its till 530.
-we do dinner at 6 every night
-bath after dinner
-nurse her again before bed usually at 730
-she is usually asleep by 8 or 830. unless she is having a bad night and then she doesn't go down until 9 r 930. this happens at least twice a week.
now i understand this schedule isn't the norm but at least its consistent for the most part. however i just finished reading a book on sleep habits that tells me that my baby will sleep better at night (which i desperately need help cus katie is a horrible sleeper at night) if i change the schedule a little. so starting tomorrow I'm going to try and follow something like this
-6am when she gets up, I get up! ughhhhh rather than nursing her back to sleep so i can sleep in with her. which i LOVE
hopefully when she gets up i can nurse her and keep her up rather than rock her back to sleep. gonna be harder for me than her i think. by keeping her up I'm hoping she will do everything earlier throughout the day
-breakfast will be at 7
-by 9 i'm hoping i can nurse her and 930 down for a nap maybe 10ish. dunno we'll see
-then by 1230 she will be up
-lunch at 1230
-130 nurse
-2 nap. (this book tells me her nap should not be later than 3pm. (some days katie doesn't' go down till 4!)) hopefully she will wake up from her nap by 4 and we can do
-dinner at 530 (rather than 6)
then get to bed by 730.we'll see!!!!
i can't figure out when i am going to do errands. when can i take her out and not have her fall asleep in the car seat. i feel like this schedule chains me to the house. with the schedule i'm on now katie has from lunch time to 330ish to go around with me to the grocery store, playdates, etc. with these new times when am i supposed to do things? after her 2:00 nap at 330? till dinner. like i'm going to get anything done during rush hour! ughhhhh i'm still learning but this is hard!
WISH ME LUCK!
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wow! your normal schedule is our EXACT schedule, with exception of the wake up time. we do get up at 7am =\ ugh! Im curious to see if your new schedule changing helps bc then i might have to do some adjusting too. this weekend we are transitioning from our room to his crib and the thought of it scares me. i think itll be harder for me to have him sleep in his room.
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