I need to put my almost 2 month old on a schedule, anyone with a baby this age? What is your schedule like?

Answer 1

Ha! I'm telling you...the schedule works! Although I didnt really enforce mine until about 3 months.

The best thing is to stay home for a week and chart your baby's habits. Habits outside the home will be disrupted, and it sucks but the best way to get an accurate idea is to stay home for that week. Then look at the patterns in sleep and feeding. Does he sleep for a consistent amount of time, and usually after feeding? Does he wake up always if he napped before he ate? Most people recommend a habit of feed, sleep, play. Re-arrange the order however you want, but keep it consistent to the baby knows "hey, when I wake up, I eat" or "hey, i eat then go to sleep". But being so little, he (or she) may not be ready for a strict schedule yet, so be prepared to be a little flexible for another couple months.

Answer 2

I think its hard to put a child that young on a schedule but I would say if you are trying to put the child on a sleep schedule try doing the same thing every day around the same time... my son is 11 months old and he falls asleep around the same time everyday and has been since he was about 3months but I do the same type of things around the same time like a routine... dinner, playing a bath and a story hope this helps

Answer 3

I find they make their own schedule, sometimes you work around them, if you need to go out you just try your best when they need their feed and sleep. a week should tell you what to expect- if their sleepers or not, you let them get into a routine and then you will know when to bath them and cook tea and anything else you need to do. You'll know what to expect before they get overtired, and what their mannerisms are like for each thing they need, I found mine always needed a top up of milk often after her full bottle, because she just kept growing and hardly slept for long- so you just work around it, 5 months now and still has a set routine which may change every now and then, depending on everything, and she now sleeps well through the day and through the night. Congratulations to you for your little one.

Answer 4

At this age, your baby's schedule IS your schedule! When they get a little older, like around 5-6 months, they'll have more of a set schedule. Kids change their schedules all the time. I have 3 kids (7yrs, 4yrs, and 3mos) and it's hard to find time for me to get stuff done. There's always something to be done with one of them! Hang in there and things will be better with time... and patience! :)

Congrats on your new little one!

Answer 5

I put mine on a loose schedule at 2 weeks old. It's good as it gets you also used to it to it too. Yes, everyone said she was too young but she got day and night backwards. It was the only way I knew to reverse her internal clock.

We'd put her down to sleep and naps roughly the same time every day even though we knew there was little chance she'd sleep. When she cried, we would stay in the room with her but won't take her out of the room until she slept. After 2 weeks, she figured out when sleep time was and started to sleep through the night at 4 weeks old starting to wake every 2 hours gradually up to 10 to 12 hours a night. We didn't plan to be this lucky =)

Oh, we still fed her on demand, not on schedule.

It worked because she's still sleeps at night and takes one or two naps a day. Her feedings now co-incide with our mealtimes. She's 7 months old now.

Answer 6

I have a 2 month old baby boy and it's never occurred to me to put him on a schedule. To date, I plan whatever I need to do, or wherever I need to go, around his feedings. He is still to little to expect him to accommodate what is convenient for me.

Answer 7

i started a schedule with my baby at like 3 months.hes 5 months now..he does just fine with it...i feed him veggies then give him a bath and then i breastfeed him and he goes rite to bed. Good luck!