Mommy to a sweet baby boy asked:
thank you all for the wait some more months =)
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Tags: Advice, Age Thanks, Schedual
11 weeks is too young to be on a schedule. Wait a couple more months. At this stage a lot of babies are still sleeping most of the day.
i love how you spelled “schedual” rofl.
your not a very smart mommy are you?
lmao.
The baby is already on a schedule. You have to adapt. Give it some more time to work out its routine to mesh with yours.
If you are breastfeeding then you might as well forget about any schedules for a long long time.
good luck!
i would try to keep my kids up as long as possible. just keep it up and they will get on the schedule you want. but remember babies have to have alot of sleep.
check out cafemom, there are alot of different groups you can join thru them and they can be very helpful to new moms and old moms. its all for moms. good luck
a schedule for my son was nurse every 2 hours and sleep in between…at 11 weeks it is hard to be on a schedule because babies have growth spurts…. it is very important that you tend to their needs make sure they eat enough and sleep when they want because they are growing a schedule can start around 5 months…….congratulations!!
At eleven weeks, it’s pretty tough to put a wee one on a schedule. But you can begin to regain some sanity, I think.
Somewhere around eight weeks, we started trying to be very, very regular with the “last” night feeding and “first” morning feeding times. (He wasn’t sleeping through the night consistently – though he did go about five hours at a stretch, and sometimes as long as seven. But then, we supplemented with formula and formula-fed babies tend to sleep longer.)
As early as three weeks, I started trying to space out his feedings to three hours. If he really fussed, I fed him, of course. But if he could be distracted by 15 minutes in his swing or some singing, I tried to make it closer to the 3-hour mark.
We also tried to take a walk at about the same time everyday, usually mid-morning. But that was for my sanity as much as his.
I think you can ease into a schedule, but for both your sakes, I would not go into a rigid program so quickly. Some of it is about figuring out what works for you and your baby, and odds are that your kiddo might have distinct preferences, too.
At 11 weeks a schedule (that you come up with) will be nearly impossible. Baby’s at this age know better than anyone what they need in regard to food/sleep.
His/Her schedule will be different too, depending upon whether you are breast feeding or using formula. Baby’s with formula will go longer between feedings because formula is harder for baby to digest. If you are breast feeding baby will likely wake up more often to eat. Not to say that formula feeding is the way to go. The benefits of breast milk outweigh the benefits of longer sleep stretches. This decision is your to make. But either way baby will dictate his/her schedule for now. Eventually a more desireable schedule will emerge.
You can assist this by keeping the lights and noise low for night time feedings and diaper changes. Get in and get out. If the baby is engaged by lights and sounds it will be harder for her to go back to sleep. This will enforce that night time is for sleeping and not for play. Then during the day keep baby in the mix of things. This will tell her/him that daytime is for play. This is the best hope you have of influencing the schedule.
Good luck!
I think you can try a schedule but don’t be too strict about it and let him set it. The only schedule we stick to for our 4 month old is a bed time routine. Bath, bottle, bed. Your baby will pretty much develope his own routine for day time. Ours gets up, eats, plays a little, then a nap. We feed him every 3 hours (he set this not us) unless he is sleeping. After the am nap, we play, eat and usually have another short nap. He’s at the babysitter during the week for day time but this is our weekend day time schedule. But like I said..we let him set the schedule.