How easy did you find it to get your baby into a good routine?

Question

Not looking for advice, I'm askin!

We found it easy, using advice from the Baby Whisperer, Tracy Hogg.

E - eat
A - activity
S - sleep (baby)
Y - you time!

We applied this from day one and had no problems but others I know still (9 months on) don't have their children in a routine.

How did you manage?

The Sealer - you answer is very disturbing. I hope you don't breed anymore.

Answer 1

It was easy. I got her book when I was pregnant with me second child and it really helped. My husband and I had no clue to do with our oldest she cried all the time and never slept for more then 20 minutes at a time and we had no clue how to make her happy. The first year with her was terrible!! Then I heard about the Baby Whisperer after I found out I was pregnant for the second time.
So it was easy to get a routine going for both my second with my third it was a little harder seeing as he has had some health problems but now that he is 7 months old he is outgrowing his problems so he does have a good routine.

Answer 2

With my first son, 11 years ago, I was younger and didn't start with a routine early on. As a result, he didn't sleep throught he night for years and was a bit unstructured. With my daughter, born 7 months ago, i bought all the sleep and structure books out there (including the Baby Whisperer) and started a routine from the day I brought her home. She has been sleeping 11 hours through the night since 4 months, eats three times a day and has a structured routine. As a result, she is a calmer, happier infant and I have 'me time' from 8:00 pm on. It might have been a challenge getting her to sleep at 8:00 (running up and down the stairs to soother her and give her a pacifier when she was still trying to get used to her new bedtime), but it was well worth it. I also have friends with 7-11 month olds that have no routine and go to bed at midnight!

Answer 3

I am very fortunate both of my boys were very well behaved and adopted to easy schedules fast. When they were newborns however, they were on a every 3 hours all day and night and I just had to deal. I made my own formula too so it was a HUGE pain in the **** to have to get up at 5 am and mix the milk the karo the vitamins and the protein. I'm not really old... I just wanted it that way for his sake. With the baby, I used can formula and the whole milk child is tall and thin and lean and the baby is heavier and has a bad sweet-tooth.

Basically, you just have to adjust. Me time is good (you need it to be sane) but don't expect too much. Your baby is your life now and that is a beautiful privilege.

" It is no slight thing when they that are so fresh from God love us." Dickens

Answer 4

you may initiate as quickly as you carry them homestead. the subject is you will desire to be very consistent and that's no longer as basic because it sounds. Your chum would have had an exceedingly basic toddler and that would have helped plenty. some recommendations: Plan forward. initiate from the well-being middle. Ask the nurses what time they feed the toddler and enable them to renowned you're attempting to initiate a time table. be certain you get the toddler on an ingesting time table that suits you once you arrive homestead. each and every 2 to 3 hours (3am,6am,9am,12pm etc) Sleep as much as you may interior the beginning up while the toddler sleeps so which you will shrink your frustration while issues get slightly perplexing. supply the toddler an mind-blowing tub (rubdown or another nightly habitual) and change out each and all of the lighting fixtures (possibly go away a nighttime easy on) on the bedtime feeding so the toddler can study that that's nighttime time. do no longer activate each and all of the lighting fixtures and don't play with the toddler on the late nighttime feedings so as that the toddler will comprehend that it continues to be nighttime time. this would possibly not be basic on the beginning up yet shop at it and don't supply up. In time you would be in a habitual and next ingredient you comprehend the toddler would be napping for the period of the nighttime. As a mom of four with a collection of twins i will somewhat say that's attainable. continuously you will desire to take a seat down back and get your relax this is going to furnish help to and those around you particularly the toddler.

Answer 5

My daughter actually put herself on a schedule. She was born early and was in the NICU for 2 and a half months. Then three weeks after she came home she got sick and was in the PICU for three months. IT was there she started going to sleep at certain times. With all she has been through she is truly an easy baby. I just kept her at those times since she started it on her own. I am not a schedule type person, so sometimes it varies by a few minutes but she will go to sleep at about the same time even if she is not in her bed.

Answer 6

I was advised to read "Babywise" by several friends and a couple family members. I read it the first week I had my daughter home from the hospital... and followed it to a 't'. It worked.

Because of it, I feel like I am better equipped to figure out what's wrong if she's upset AND it makes for an easier day when I'm out and about.

Moreover, she's been sleeping through the night since she was seven weeks old. So, we're both well rested. That makes for a happy baby AND a happy Mommy!

Answer 7

REPITITION WAS THE ANSWER TO MY CHILDREN'S ROUTINE. WE FED THEM AT THE SAME TIME EVRY DAY, BATHING, GOING TO SLEEP, GETTING OUT OF BED. tHE SECRET TO WINNING THE BATTLE IS NEVER GIVE IN, AND DON'T GIVE THEM A CHOICE. I'M GOING TO COUNT TO THREE IS NOT GOOD BECAUSE THEY LEARN THAT ONE AND TWO IS NOT IMPORTANT. ALWAYS FOLLOW THRU WITH A WARNING. " GO TO BED NOW OR I'M GETTING UP TO SPANK YOU ", IF THEY DON'T START MOVING AT ONCE, DON'T SAY ANYTHING ,JUST GET UP AND GET THE BELT AND HEAD FOR THEM. IF YOU HAVE TO, GIVE THEM A LIGHT WHACK, LIGHT ENOUGH TO LET THEM KNOW YOU'RE NOT PLAYING AROUND. nEVER GIVE THEM A CHOICE LIKE, " IF YOU DON'T PICK UP YOUR CLOTHES I'M NOT LETTING YOU GO OUT TO PLAY LATER" , CAUSE THERE IS NO IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCE TO THAT. BESIDES, THEY FIGURE YOU WILL FORGET ANYHOW.ANOTHER THING YOU DON'T WANT TO GET INTO IS HOLLERING, ALL YOU'RE DOING IS TEACHING THEM THAT HOLLERING IS THE ANSWER TO SOLVING A DISCUSSION. " WHY ?", IS A QUESTION THAT COMES FROM EVERY KID. THEY WANT AN EXPLNATION AS TO WHY THEY HAVE TO DO WHAT THERE TOLD , OR THEY WON'T DO IT. i WOULD TELL MY KIDS IMMEDIATELY, " DON'T YOU EVER QUESTION MY AUTHORITY AGAIN, UNDERSTAND?" WHEN I TELL YOU TO DO SOMETHING, DO IT, AND DO IT RIGHT THEN , NO QUESTIONS OR GRUNTS. TODAY MY VERY GROWN CHILDREN ARE RESPECTABLE INDIVIDUALS, ESPECIALLY TOWARDS US, THEIR OLD PARENTS. THE OLDEST IS 42, THE YOUNGEST IS 37, NIETHER OF OUR FIVE KIDS TALK BACK TO US, EVER.