petesgirl
01-25-2018, 01:27 PM
I feel like my 8-month old is on the verge of needing some schedule changes and I need another set of eyes (anybody with a similar aged baby want to share their daily schedule?)-DH isn't helpful at all when I try to discuss this.
So, here is where we are at:
7:00ish--wake up
7:30-bottle (about 7 oz)
8:30-take DS to school
9-9:30--first nap: lasts about 1.5 hrs, til 11ish
11:30-bottle (about 6.5 oz)
1:30-nap, about an hour
2:30-bottle (6.5 oz)
3:00-pick DS up at school
5:30- bottle (6.5 oz)
6:00- 45 min nap
8:00-bottle (7 oz)
8:30-9:00--Asleep (typically sleeps all night! yay!)
Ok, so here are the problems. That last nap/bedtime--I know he should be getting to bed earlier and if we could manage that we could probably drop the last nap. I am a little nervous about changing anything though because he sleeps all night and I don't want to ruin that!! The problem with moving up his bedtime though, is getting that last bottle in. I don't think he will take his bottles any closer together than 3 hrs and he isn't drinking enough in other bottles to make up for dropping a bottle. Solids are hit or miss-we don't do them 3x a day, but he does get some everyday. However--the last two weeks he has been a total stinker about finishing bottles. He will stop after about 4 oz and it is a total fight to get him to finish! The other problem is that I think his afternoon nap needs to be later (he does fall asleep pretty easily at 1:30 but then he only sleeps an hour and then he can't last until his 8:00 bottle without another little nap) but we have to be gone from 3-3:30 on weekdays to pick up DS from school. That's about when he should be napping, I think. Car-pooling isn't an option right now, as the 2 other families in our neighborhood that attended the same school recently moved.
So, here is what I'm contemplating: 4 bottles a day (maybe if we drop the 5th bottle he will drink more at each bottle?) so that his last bottle is around 6:30-7 and he can get to bed earlier. Be more consistent with solids 3 times a day so that will make up for some lost calories from dropping a bottle as well. I don't know what to do about that afternoon nap! I could try to keep him up until 3:30 when we get home from pickup but then is he sleeps for 2 hrs will he be ready for an earlier bedtime? And I'm nervous he will fall asleep in the car and end up only getting a short catnap. Maybe I should just leave it at 1:30.
Sigh, I'm awful at figuring this out, even after 3 kids!
So, here is where we are at:
7:00ish--wake up
7:30-bottle (about 7 oz)
8:30-take DS to school
9-9:30--first nap: lasts about 1.5 hrs, til 11ish
11:30-bottle (about 6.5 oz)
1:30-nap, about an hour
2:30-bottle (6.5 oz)
3:00-pick DS up at school
5:30- bottle (6.5 oz)
6:00- 45 min nap
8:00-bottle (7 oz)
8:30-9:00--Asleep (typically sleeps all night! yay!)
Ok, so here are the problems. That last nap/bedtime--I know he should be getting to bed earlier and if we could manage that we could probably drop the last nap. I am a little nervous about changing anything though because he sleeps all night and I don't want to ruin that!! The problem with moving up his bedtime though, is getting that last bottle in. I don't think he will take his bottles any closer together than 3 hrs and he isn't drinking enough in other bottles to make up for dropping a bottle. Solids are hit or miss-we don't do them 3x a day, but he does get some everyday. However--the last two weeks he has been a total stinker about finishing bottles. He will stop after about 4 oz and it is a total fight to get him to finish! The other problem is that I think his afternoon nap needs to be later (he does fall asleep pretty easily at 1:30 but then he only sleeps an hour and then he can't last until his 8:00 bottle without another little nap) but we have to be gone from 3-3:30 on weekdays to pick up DS from school. That's about when he should be napping, I think. Car-pooling isn't an option right now, as the 2 other families in our neighborhood that attended the same school recently moved.
So, here is what I'm contemplating: 4 bottles a day (maybe if we drop the 5th bottle he will drink more at each bottle?) so that his last bottle is around 6:30-7 and he can get to bed earlier. Be more consistent with solids 3 times a day so that will make up for some lost calories from dropping a bottle as well. I don't know what to do about that afternoon nap! I could try to keep him up until 3:30 when we get home from pickup but then is he sleeps for 2 hrs will he be ready for an earlier bedtime? And I'm nervous he will fall asleep in the car and end up only getting a short catnap. Maybe I should just leave it at 1:30.
Sigh, I'm awful at figuring this out, even after 3 kids!