My DD is 12 weeks. Nights are improving but not very consistent eg some nights long sleep from 10 ish of 4-5 hrs, once 7 hours. Other nights feed after 3 hrs then 2.5 then 1.5...she is ebf. Always starts in cot, increasingly only coming in with me at about 6-7 ish in the morning.
Day times so hit & miss. I don't have a regular set get up time yet as depends on how the nights been for DD and me, plus I don't always get back to sleep quickly after feed, or wake to feed before she does etc.
If I put her in the carrier at an appropriate time she will always sleep, which is good and means dogs get walked, hands free for getting things done. Once she napped in the cot, she will sometimes rarely sleep in the pram but not for as long and as soon as I stop walking she's awake again. She will sleep in the car seat but I'm not often going out, we live on a farm so walks are at home.
I have no routine, some days we do a food shop, or a mums group, or a visit somewhere, other days we don't. This week is v quiet, last week busy.
Increasingly people are telling me to instigate a routine of daytime naps but I'm at a loss of how. Sometimes she sleeps a lot of the day, other times hardly at all (today) some days cluster feeding still but not everyday..
Is she too variable in her days, am I also too variable? Do I need to start a timetable approach or just go with it? I'd prefer to be led by her but equally would rather not be creating a rod for my own back for the future.
Any experiences or suggestions gratefully received!
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pebPEB1 · 22/07/2014 16:45
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