Hello!
My LO is 14 weeks old and I want to try to get him on a schedule for when I go back to work in 6 weeks.
We consistently wake up every morning at 7. He’s been very used to that and does well with it!
We try to get him to bed between 8:30 and 9:00 every night. I know a lot of schedules say to have them in bed by 7:30, but honestly my husband (and soon to be me) would only get 30 minutes with him after work if we started baths at 6:30. And that’s heartbreaking and not something I’m willing to do unless necessary. So we’re trying to just push it back by an hour.
I am loosely trying to follow the moms on call schedule with 1.5 hours awake 1.5 hours asleep and a shorter nap as the last nap.
It’s been rough.
So I had a couple of questions for moms who have their babies on a schedule in general. It doesn’t necessarily need to be the MOC schedule.
- What is more important - the amount of time slept or the start/finish times.
For example…if nap time is supposed to be from 2:30-4:00 but it takes 30 minutes to get him to sleep do I let him sleep for 1.5 hours still until 4:30? Or wake him up at 4:00 to establish a 2:30 start and a 4:00 end?
How on earth do I get him to nap in his crib. There is zero chance he sleeps for an entire 1.5 hour nap in his there at this point. He will if he’s being held though. Do I just keep holding him to get the schedule established and then once it feels like he no longer fights me on the naps and can nap that long start dealing with getting him to transition to the crib?
If I am putting him in his crib and not holding him how do I get him to stay asleep in there? Pick him up and rock him again every time he wakes up? Just stand next to him and pat his belly or give him his paci back? I feel like I’ll be standing there for the whole 1.5 hours doing that :/.
And then he’ll never get a good nap in.
Also I should note that he is going through the “4 month sleep regression” right now too. He used to sleep 7-9 hour stretches at night and now I’m lucky if he makes it 2 hours and it’s so hard to get him back to sleep sometimes. AND he’s starting to roll so we had to transition him to arms out (just doing one for now) on top of it. So he’s having a really hard time with all the changes.
Thanks for any help!!!