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Question

Tell me your babys sleeping scheduale? (trying to get an idea) Be specific, please.
ALSO, What would you want someone to tell you about a raising a baby before you had one?

Answer 1

My baby is 7 months old today. I put him on a sleep schedule at 4 months. He slept in my room in his own cradle till then. He generally wakes up around 7am every morning. I nurse him and then he sits and plays with toys while I start any type of housework that needs done. He wants to go back to bed around 9am. He will sleep for 30-50 minutes every time. Then when hes up he has his cereal and fruit and washes and gets dressed for the day. We go on walks, we drive to friends house, we watch movies, we do whatever for the duration of the day (stay-at-home-mom). Baby will want to nurse and nap around 1 or 2 pm. Evening, (4pm or so) I start dinner, he plays in his highchair with toys, daddy gets home we all have dinner. About 630 pm baby gets his bath, then story time, then nurse, then prayers, then in bed 715 pm to 730 pm. Because I did real actual sleep training with him at 4 months, he will sleep all the way through the night in his own room in his own crib. Its glorious. Then hes up at 7 am and we start all over again... :) Good luck!

Answer 2

Newborns sleep a LOT, but in short doses. They'll sleep like 2-3 hours at a time, then want food & a clean butt, then sleep again. A newborn only takes a short time to get into a schedule, unless they are experiancing discomfort from something else, such as gas. If your baby is fussy and a bottle or nap or clean butt isn't doing it, she might have gas. Otherwise, they stick to a schedule fast. Slowly over the first month, the periods where the baby is awake and asleep will stretch into longer periods. By 1 month, the baby is sleeping in 4-5 hour shifts, and staying awake for 2-3 hours at a time. This helps you because you can sleep longer at night.

To try and get your baby into a night time sleep schedule, make sure to feed her right about the time you would normally go to bed, and make sure there is a fresh diaper. Then lay him/her down for bed time. As long as she is getting her food in right before bed, then she'll sleep when you do, at least for a while.

Answer 3

Most babies don't have a set "schedule." If they do, they're abnormal. When my baby sleeps, he typically sleeps 2 to 3 hours. But the past few days, he only sleeps an hour at a time. It really varies.

The one thing I'd tell someone that's going to have their first baby is that a newborn makes a LOT of noise while they sleep. I didn't know this, and spent the first week checking him every five minutes because of the noises he was making. It's normal. They groan and grunt and snort and are REALLY loud. Don't get up to check on him until he's giving you the full-out cry.

Answer 4

A newborn sleeps 2-3 hour streches, eats and goes back to sleep. As the weeks progress you will see that they start sleeping longer stretches and awake a lot longer. My daughter is now 10 months and her first nap for the day is about 2 hours after she woke up and her 2nd nap is 4 hours after that and bed time is 6 hours after that.
I didn't know anything about babies. I've never been around many. I wish someone had told me so many things like how madly in love I was going to be to getting my baby on a routine to how messy my house was going to be afterwards (wish I had had the forsight to hire a cleaning lady once a week).

Answer 5

OK my daughter wakes up around 6:30-8:00 in the morning she eats a bottle, plays, and is ready for a nap around 11:00-2:00 wakes up eats some baby food plays, drives me crazy, screams a little(in a playing way) gets grumpy lays down to eat a bottle for 15-30 minutes, plays and eats again at 7:30pm starts getting sleepy around 9:30 but fights her sleep till11:00. falls a sleep eating a bottle. I then take the bottle away and I lay her in her crib. Most of the time she sleeps through the night, but she is getting 5 teeth in at once(almost completely in...thank god) so she wakes up about once or twice every few days.

P.S.: It is hard at first but it does get better, the baby maybe up every two hours for the next 3 months so be pastiont don't let it get to you and demand help from your old man, take shifts. My ex had me do everything and wouldn't help me with all three of our kids I finally had enough and said good bye. So make sure you get the help you need.

Answer 6

It depends on the age of the baby for their sleep schedule. Newborns sleep the most frewuent, but for short periods.
What I suggest you should do before having children is to set your alarm clock to wake you up every 2 hours and you then need to get up and stay awake for at least 45 min to an hour (time it takes to feed the baby and get her back to sleep). Then go back to sleep only to wake up again in about 1-2 hours. Then after this wake up in the morning and function all day long on that kind of sleep. Oh yeah and they don't sleep longer at night until about 6 months or more.

Answer 7

Babies generally sleep most of the time when they are new borns. they will let you know when they are hungry or need to be changed. They will be cranky when they want something. Honey you will learn real fast. They aren't hard to care for. You feed them usually every four hours and change them after. Don't forget to burp them as you feed them to prevent tummy aches. then most will go right back to sleep. I used to make sure there was noise of some kind . That is to prevent them from getting startled when they hear a sharp ar any noise for that matter. Good Luck and congradulations on you coming baby .Just pray to the Lord for guidence he will help you . God Bless.

Answer 8

Most babies do not have a set schedule as they go until they can not go any longer. LOL My son used to go to sleep at the same time every day, but that did not last long. I feel that someone who all ready has kids do help out w/telling how/what they done as it really gives you some good examples to follow, or not follow.

Answer 9

My daughter doesnt really have a sleeping schedule and never has. She sleeps when she gets tired! Alot of people told me to get her into a schedule as far as sleeping and eating went but that never worked! It was nice to get input from different people but in the end I did what I felt like doing. I wish I would've had more help with breastfeeding so that I could've breast fed my daughter longer. I struggled with that quite a bit and finally gave up because she wasnt getting enough milk from me so I had to supplement with formula. Here is a website that helped me with alot of my baby questions.

Answer 10

8:00- 9:00 wake up, have cereal, and a jar of 3rd foods fruit, 4oz. bottle

11:00 - 11:30 A jar of any kind of dinner and a pudding or a jar of veggies, 8 oz. bottle

1:00 - 3:30/4:00ish -- Nap

4:00ish -- A jar of a vegetable based dinner, 8 oz. bottle

6:00ish -- a jar of fruit

7:30 - 8:00 -- time for bed

As for raising a baby before you have one.....I wish I knew more about a feeding shedule, fine and gross motor skills (what babies should be doing and when), what each cry (tone) means, and how to properly bathe. I didn't know ANY of this prior to having my baby. I learned FAST and asked TONS of questions!