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I’m running on a feed every 3 hour schedule. Eat play sleep.
But LOs wake windows are still barely past an hour, and she won’t sleep for 2 hours so it’s not really working.
If you just follow cues how does your day go? How do you make it to a bedtime so that baby will actually settle for the night?
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zoewills1230
Following! I am in the same exact boat and really struggling!
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FTM032024
I have the same problem, she stays awake for 1-1.5 max and then naps for 45mins-1hour. I usually feed her right before she naps and most times she wont finish it so by the time she wakes up she has the rest (if its been less than 1 hour). I would love a better schedule but i dont know how to make it work right now
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ladybug4444
We don’t have a day time schedule but I try to time late afternoon / early evening feeds best I can so that her last big bottle starts about 8:30pm (get her ready for bed about 8pm) abd she sleeps every night 9-5am
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babyflo2022
My advice would be not to stress about a schedule at this age. I just follow sleepy cues for naps and feed her when she’s hungry. I have more of a bedtime range (7:30-8:30) more than a set time and it just depends on when she gets hungry/tired that specific day. She sleeps great at night! In my experience, as they get older they start consolidating their daytime sleep more and that’s when a schedule more naturally develops. Absolutely nothing wrong with having a schedule at this age - but totally not something to stress over.
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Kam9314
I’m in the same boat not understanding how to do 3-4 hour blocks with a baby who can’t do more than a 75 minute wake window. All I can say is life got infinitely better when I threw out the rule book and realized we’re all just winging it����♀️ nurse baby when he’s hungry, contact nap when he’s tired, and figure out the rest later is sort of my motto at the moment lol
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Rayray-ray
I think maybe taking our baby outside helped with her circadian rhythm! Have you been outside everyday?
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BabyMcDCominInHot
we have no schedule. i feed on demand (BF), naps are kind of all over. i just make sure no naps are
over 2 hours, we have a consistent bedtime and routine and i try to get a decent wake window before bedtime. hes sleeping from 830 until 5ish currently
i find the older taking cara babies blob posts have good tips
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I think it’s s choice - 3h feeding schedule OR eat-play-sleep. You can’t really do both, as you’ve found, because baby won’t have a 3h sleep schedule throughout the day.
Personally, I do eat-play-sleep. It’s just the amount of milk that changes based on how soon ot is since the last feeding.
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northlan615
I tried having a schedule and it got really stressful trying to have the naps fall into a certain time frame, since sometimes she'll nap for 45 mins and sometimes an hour 45. I'm kinda following the taking cara babies routine + watching wake windows. I watch to make sure she gets 4-5 hrs of daytime sleep, if she wakes from a nap and I feel like the nap wasn't sufficient I'll try to resettle her, which sometimes means nap trapping for the second half of the nap. if it takes longer than 15 mins to resettle, I'll just start the next wake window but I won't offer food until closer to the 3 hr mark (unless she's showing hunger cues )so that she will take a full feed.
bedtime now is also just range, about 1.5 - 2 hrs after the last nap, usually 8-9.
Taking Cara Babies also suggests increasing wake windows by 5 mins a day I think, if you're trying to expand them.
we still have trouble at bedtime with lots of false starts so who knows! I'm trying not to stress so much about schedules anymore.
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icecreamlovingmom
I follow cues as well. I would want him to follow a schedule, but I remember it was so stressful with my daughter. I think this baby would do better, but he also does fine with us just looking for his cues so we’re going with it
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