mothers of 1 yr old babies, please share your daily routine?

Question

what time the baby should be up in the mornin, feeding times? first morning food ? iam not sure i should be doing what iam doing ....please share

do u take your baby out everyday? how many hours? ideas where to take the baby out? i got a hell lotta ques :(

how many hours sleeping in night is enough for the kid?

i don't know how to thank u all..........you been so nice moms....n i think iam no less now!!!!!!! thank u soooo much for givin your valuable time..........ty

you all have added sooooooooo nice things, i don't know how should i select the best one.........coz all answers are excellent..

Answer 1

I have a day care in my home and currently watch a one year old. She wakes up at home around 6 am, they feed and change her and she's at my house around 7:30 am. She plays for an hour, we sing songs or have a short "circle" time, then I feed her a morning snack and then put her down for a nap at 9 am. She sleeps until 11. I change her and we play, I start fixing lunch for all the kids at 11:30 and she gets to play with the big kids for a while, 2 and 3 year olds. We eat at 12 and then back down for afternoon nap at 1pm. She will sleep until about 3:00. Afternoon snack is around 3:30, then we play inside or out depending on weather until around 5pm. The kids clean up and we have book time until parents come, 5:30pm. Her parents tell me her bedtime is 8 pm, but I can tell if that's true depending on how well she sleeps during the day. If she sleeps well, I know it was around 8. If she doesn't sleep well, I know they have kept her up to late the night before.

Your baby should be getting 2 naps a day, still, and an early bedtime, no later than 8pm. My daughter cut out the morning nap when she was around 14 months but still took an almost 3 hour nap in the afternoon until she was 3. Now that she's 3 her nap is about 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Whether or not you take her out during the day is completely up to you. I keep 5 kids in my home and if 2 are absent, I can only fit 3 car seats in my car, we go to the park in the morning. I also do water play days once a week, where we will spend almost the entire morning outside, now that the weather is hot enough. I will keep the one year old awake on those days, just once a week, so she can have more play time in the water with the older kids. Providing her lots of activity during the day will make her tired and she will sleep longer at nap times. Good luck!

Answer 2

My little boy will be 10 weeks old tomorrow (8/3/10). He eats 5-6 oz of formula every 5-7 hours. He can only stay awake for 2 hours at a time or else he gets grumpy. He sleeps for no more than 3 hours twice a day (for naps) - one nap in the morning and one in the afternoon. He gets a bath around 8, a bottle at 8:30 or 9, and then it's off to bed. He has been waking up around 3 to eat again, but last night he slept all night long. My little one was easy to get into a routine. It was tough the first week bc there wasn't really a routine, but he's been on a routine ever since he was 2 weeks old. I was so worried about how life would be after he was here, but life is so much better now that he is here. Good luck to you!

Answer 3

I have a 10 month old right now and she pretty much does the same thing every day. At around 5 or 6 in the morning she wakes up and I give her a bottle and she goes right back to sleep for 2 more hours. I feed her breakfast like an egg with a little bit of 2% milk. We play for a while or she sits down and plays with the big leggo's. She drinks her bottle at around 12 in the afternoon and takes a 2 to 3 hour nap. By the time she wakes up her food is ready like Green beens with some small pieces of chicken or some soup. I give her different types of vegetables each day for dinner. We might go outside for a while and she plays with her brothers who are 7 and 4. She eats a banana or an apple some strawberries or any type of fruit for a snack. I also give her the arrowroot cookies from gerber so she can munch on once in a while.
At around 8 p.m. she is ready for bed. She wont wake up until 5 or 6 in the morning again and the day repeats itself.

Answer 4

I have a two and a half year old and a one year old. Now every baby's different, so keep that in mind.

My little one usually gets up around 7, sometimes he sleeps until 9:30, it just depends. I first give him a bottle and then around 10:30 or 11 I give him some cereal, like cheerios. I usually just give him some toys to play around the living room. Then around 1 I give him his lunch, either some soup or macaroni and cheesse, whatever your baby likes, if you don't know what foods he prefers, just give him whatever you have on hand and if he likes it he'll eat it, if not he'll spit it out, if he spits it out, don't force him, it'll probably just make him sick.
Give him a snack around 2:30, fruit or veggies, something. If he doesn't want a snack, give him a bottle, my son usually wants a bottle around that time and he takes a nap, usually 45 minutes to an hour, sometimes longer,d epending on how tired he is. Babies at this age usually sleep 12-14 hours a day, so don't worry if he sleeps a lot, it's pretty normal.
Give him something to eat when he wakes up. He should be good to go until dinnertime, usually around 5:30 or 6, then give him some dinner, once again whatever he likes, if he wants a snack later on give him some fruit, then his bottle and off to bed. With kids you have to remember that they need quite a few meals a day and usually not elaborate ones, it's simple stuff, but they're constantly eating so just kind of go with the flow. Listen to him, hell tell you when he's hungry, like I said all babies are different, he'll guide you, don't freak out.
As far as where to take him, take him to a park, put him on a swing and push him, take him to one of those play pens, you know where they have all these balls in, just make sure the place is clean, my little one had a blast when I took him. I hope this helped..good luck and remember let him guide you, after all he does know what he wants and when he wants it.

Answer 5

I read the book Baby Wise when my baby was 2 months old. It changed my life. He just turned one on Saturday. Basically my baby wakes up at 6am, I nurse him, then play for a little while and feed him breakfast before he goes down for his morning nap which is 2- 2 1/2 hours after he wakes up. He'll nap for an hour then he wakes up and plays. We'll either run errands in the morning or just hang out at home.
One day a week we have a tumbles class and another we play with neighbors. Around 11:30 he's ready for lunch and he eats, then plays more until his afternoon nap which is from 2 until 4:30 or 5 depending on how much energy he wore out during the day. He'll have a snack when he wakes up if it's early and he'll have dinner at 6 with us. Otherwise if he wakes up late he'll just eat dinner early. After his snack we go for a walk, that's my exercise, or we go to the park.
Then at 8pm every single night we undress him and he nurses one more time then we take a shower and he goes to sleep by 8:30. Keep a pretty tight schedule and you and your baby will be able to know what's going to happen next. Try reading that book if you can.

Answer 6

I am a mother of a 6 yr old and a almost 1 yr old, both girls. There really is no set time for anything with a baby but they do have their own schedules. Mine wakes up at about 830-900am, gets changed and dressed and then eats. She is very insistant on being fed within 15 minutes of getting up. She eats cereal and fruit or scrambled eggs or pieces of toast, it all depends. After that we play with her and talk and sing with her, she has a great big sister to teach her all kinds of things. At about 10:30-11:00 am she wants to take her morning nap and sleeps for about an hour. Then she gets up and they go outside, she stays in her walker on the porch or we take her on the swing. It is very hard to keep a baby entertained all day and it seems she is doing new things everyday and her vocabulary is just expanding every day as well. I would love to talk further with you please feel free to email me and I can give you more info and ideas on this.

Answer 7

My son wakes up at 7 and we start with the usual diaper change and then I take him into the kitchen to eat breakfast, which is usually oatmeal. I buy the fruit and cream variety packs at wal-mart. He also has a sippy cup of milk, and sometimes a piece of toast. Then I let him watch an hour of Elmo's world, or some other movie. Then I take him outside to play in his little pool if it is warm enough. Or I will sit down on the floor and play cars with him, or blocks. He enjoys that. at about 10:30 he goes down for his 3 hour nap and when he wakes up he eats lunch. Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich (half) and 5 cheetos, or a gram cracker, with some juice. then we go for a little walk sometimes or we get back on the floor and play a little bit. Until Dad gets home then he wants Dad. At about 5 or 5:30 we eat dinner. He eats whatever I have to cook for the night spegetti, chicken, whatever he eats what we eat and has a sippy cup of milk. After dinner he gets his bath. He plays with Dad a little bit and has a sippy cup of water. 8:00 is bedtime. I just took him off his bottle a week ago and he is dong pretty good. He is 14 months old. He sleeps through the night, but does cry out sometimes, just doesn't wake up. If his sleeping and eating schedule is interrupted in any way there is hell to pay. He lets me know he isn't happy and if he's not happy, I'm not happy! Your probably not doing anything wrong. Every mom sets a schedule of their own for there child depending on what works for them.

Answer 8

I have a 7 month old and a 20 month old. Our two go to bed around 7 o'clock at night and get up around 6 o'clock in the morning. They more or less have their feeding times around the same time as us now i.e: breakfast, lunch, tea, and supper. Does your baby seem happy and contented with the way you are doing things? If so i would carry on doing what you are doing now. Try not to worry so much as it is all really about learning as you go along. People can give you advice from their own experience but all baby's are different and their is no perfect parent. I am sure you are doing an excellent job all ready.

Answer 9

My 15 month old wakes up between 930 and 1030 in the morning, goes to the potty and is eating breakfast by 11. We take our shower get dressed and if it is not too hot out she goes and runs outside and mess with everyone on the block. She comes in about an hour or so later. She gets lunch around 200 by 330 she is ready for a nap. She goes to the potty every hour except when she sleeps she wears a pamper. After the nap she is up and about again until dinner around 730 or 8. After that she gets a fruit cup around 9, in the bath at 930 in the bed at 10. She sleeps anywhere from 10 - 12 hours. During the day I let her drink milk or juice with meals and water in between. She will get 2 on the go snacks like chips or jello. I hope this helps.

Answer 10

Hi there!
My baby is only 8 months, but wanted to reply to you anyway! Dont forget there is no set routine, all babies and mothers are different and it depends on what you have to do in the day too, but mine goes something like this

7 am - up (she wakes around this time by herself) and breakfast. this consists of a bottle and a bowl of baby rice
about 8 30 she naps for about an hour
play time in her play pen, by herself or with me
10 ish - bottle
more play, or we're out running errands. nap before lunch (usually only about half an hour)
1-2 lunch (sweet potato and veggies)
another nap for an hour
4-5 - bottle
7ish - bath, bottle and bed.

This isnt set though - her feeding times remain the same but her naps and playtimes depend on her mood, and sometimes we are running around all day so she snatches sleep in the car.

Dont panic if you arent pandering to her every desire - we have lifes to run and they have to learn to fit round that too. I find that some harmless TV for half an hour at a time helps if you need to get stuff done - theres no harm in it!

Im sure you are doing a great job! All your baby needs is love and attention, and she will thrive. Dont get too bogged down in the routine, just do what feels right!