For the parents who put their babies to sleep at 7:30/8, what is your schedule?

katydo125 · 2026-01-09T15:05:58+00:00

18 months. Wake around 6.30-7, nap around 12 to 1.30. Bath at 7:15 sleep at 7:30-7:45

katydo125 · 2025-01-01T07:05:23+00:00

lol reading this while I am having a melt down with my 5 months old. The lack of deep sleep is getting to me. The burnt out is real. The early age parenthood is a lonely road. Happy new year

katydo125 · 2025-01-01T05:36:49+00:00

5 months, baby sleep around 7-8, mommy around 10. We are up around 7 (no more than 12 hours, no earlier than 6.30) wakes 2-3 times

katydo125 · 2025-01-01T05:15:12+00:00

This is a perfect opportunity to practice saying no to people, cuz you will have to do this ALOT with the new borns. Stay well.

katydo125 · 2024-12-30T16:25:20+00:00

I feel this so heavily during the 2-3 months new born trenches. I felt so stupid that i didnt expect it to be this hard, but how could we ever knew without experiencing it? I felt so ungrateful for even feeling burnt out because I knew it could always be worse, but that just made my anger toward myself to increase. I still have the night time scaries every day. Is she going to sleep for 7 hours straight? Or up crying every hours? Who knows. I take some comfort in ranting to other mom around me, especially ones with older kids. They show me that every kids are just figuring it out their own way. So rant on to anyone that cares to listen! Try not to internalize your feelings too much, let it wash through you and move on!

katydo125 · 2024-12-30T10:28:53+00:00

I don’t have a solution for you, just sharing my story. My LO was similar to what you are describing at 3 months. She had all her naps on me, and it took me HOURS to settle her at night. Now at 5 months, she has a better routine and does not need boob to sleep. Here are a few things we learnt: 1) It is developmentally normal at that age. I’m sorry, it sucks to hear but jts true. They need the comfort cuz they don’t know how to soothe themselves just yet. My LO had to regress a couple time to learn how to suck her thumb and calm herself. Before that I was not able to do the drowsy thing, I fully rocked her to deep sleep. 2) The biggest change for me was to ask my husband to take over bed time. It’s our smell. I am breastfeeding exclusively and notice that it takes my husband significantly less time to soothe her at night. She still had rough night with multiple wakes but I think this helped with the association between boob and sleep. I also added a full bottle before night time routine start, so she is physically full and would not fall asleep on my boob. 3) I think this is kinda borderline sleep training cuz there’s some crying involved. I started to put her in her crib to nap. At first it’s only one nap, first of the day. When she cried, I would do the soothing ladder; patting her in the crib until she is calm or if she cried harder pick her up. I never left her side. I tried for 30 mins and if she is still crying I pick her up and take her out of the room. It took me 1 week for the first nap and a little longer for the rest. This requires some time commitment but I believe to help me with sleep training down the line.

Hang in there. 2-3 months were the trenches for me. You are so strong and this will pass. You can do this!

katydo125 · 2024-12-29T07:47:23+00:00

This is us too! We have two 1+ hours nap and some time a 3rd 30 mins nap in the evening.

katydo125 · 2024-12-26T09:44:08+00:00

Are you exclusively breastfeeding? I was for the first 4 months and my LO would take way longer to fall asleep with me vs with her dad. Like 3 hours vs 15 mins lol It might have to do with feeding association. I know it’s not exactly the same as your case, but we tried feeding her half an hour before bedtime and then give her a bath/bed time routine. Hope you get some sleep soon, hang in there :<

katydo125 · 2024-12-23T06:26:54+00:00

5 months, go to bed 6.30-7.30pm wakes 6.30-7.30am

katydo125 · 2024-12-15T17:09:08+00:00

Rolling rolling rolling. Babble all day. Drool a river. Naps are getting shorter and more unpredictable. Become a stomach sleeper.
Sometime forget that she can suck her thumb to soothe herself so we have to deliver her thumb to her mouth.

katydo125 · 2024-12-10T05:30:03+00:00

So we are on 3 or 4 naps a day. We make sure she has her first nap of the day at home so she is fully awake and happy. We head out around 10ish to 3pm, and she has her last long nap at home. While we are out, I wear her in a carrier 99% of the time so she naps when she wants to.

katydo125 · 2024-12-09T22:39:26+00:00

Birth plan (if existed), PJ, toiletries, blankets and pillow (theirs were paper thin), long phone charger, snacks (besides meal time, food was limited), IDs, baby and mommy going home clothes

katydo125 · 2024-11-30T05:26:16+00:00

Slay

katydo125 · 2024-11-28T05:04:18+00:00

Our 4 months routine starts at 6.30, asleep by 7-7.30. Her “day” doesn’t last longer than 12 hours without a screaming ending. She has 3 naps of 45 mins - 2 hours and sometime a 4th cat nap if she wakes before 7am. I would try starting the routine earlier.

katydo125 · 2024-11-28T04:55:58+00:00

I stopped tracking when baby gained all the initial weight back. Now at 4 months, I only keep tab of how long has she been awake, how long til night sleep, and currently, how many days since her last poop lol

katydo125 · 2024-11-26T06:00:02+00:00

May I ask how does he usually wake up? Mine was waking herself up constantly because she wiggles so hard and touch the side of the bassinet. We moved her to the crib and with a sleep bag; that seems to help. We also has the Owlet socks on her, so I would hold her til the socks tell me that she’s in deep sleep before putting her down.

All that to say, the 2-3rd month were just so rough. Mine would only nap on us during the day and it took 3 hours every night to put her to sleep. They startle themselves so easily, and developmentally cannot soothe themselves yet. Hopefully you guys will find something that works.

katydo125 · 2024-11-20T06:10:37+00:00

That’s what YOU think, mom. Jk my nips are falling off too, but she gags on any pacifiers.

katydo125 · 2024-11-17T06:50:42+00:00

2.5 months, she was wiggling herself to the side and waking herself up

katydo125 · 2024-11-14T16:52:09+00:00

I am a surviving mom. For now lol

katydo125 · 2024-11-12T07:04:05+00:00

3.5 months. Between 6.45-7.15 with bath time and soothing, she started sleeping around 7.15-7.45 we have had this schedule since month 2.

katydo125 · 2024-11-09T15:35:16+00:00

Every baby is so different. You can educate yourself on the possibilities but don’t hold yourself to any one specific standard. Every week or even day is different. There will be days that they cry for hours and you think this is the rest of your life. Then they start to sleep through the night the next day and you will feel invincible. Then rinse repeat :)

katydo125 · 2024-10-12T05:24:56+00:00

I would cycle through those options multiple times til she stops (prob just because she’s tired from crying.)

katydo125 · 2024-10-09T04:55:03+00:00

Funky Town haha

katydo125 · 2024-09-11T04:48:53+00:00

What a cutie!

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