No routine?

[nothanksbye]

My girl is 13 weeks old.

We have no routine...Not a little bit of one..

She sleeps all night.7 till 7 with a dream feed at 11.

Then during the day she just gets fed plays and then sleeps but at no set time.

She is a very very happy bubba and hardly even cries.

she sleeps well at night..but being the 3rd she just kinda fits in.

so does anyone else have this ????

[BigRedV]

I didn't have a set routine either.

Like your baby, DD slept well at night, but during the day was different. Everyday was a new day and completely the opposite to the previous day :D

[mim1]

My ds didn't have a day or night time routine til about 12 months! At least you have set overnight sleep times - that's a major success at 13 weeks. It's very normal for little babies to be up for varying amounts of time during the day and therefore changing sleep/feed times. It's extremely annoying as you can't plan when the 'awake' time will be though.

[temple]

sounds normal to me - most babies take a while to form their own rhythms :) as long as they are happy, its all good!

[curiousgb]

no routine here, jsut a roughie that changes every day.

I can't even get myself into a routine, let alone a baby!

I don't know how some people stick to routines!

[MsMummy]

we've never had a routine, but he roughly goes to bed and wakes up at the same time every day, and has the same-ish length nap.

[Boobycino]

Sounds fabulous!

Lucky you!

You're doing very well, no routine is fine for a baby so young.

I dont have a routine for my son and it works perfectly for me. I cant interupt his routine by making plans, as he has no routine to interupt. He's flexible, I'm flexible, we work together perfectly!

(He has created his own routine, but its not time accurate, he has 2 sleeps a day, breakfast, lunch and dinner, and breast feeds when he wakes up, but nothing is at any specific time of day)

[bada]

From 8 weeks DD went to bed before 8 and mostly slept through the night but we never enforced it ie if she woke in the night I'd just feed her. So we never had a routine apart from that.

She fed when she wanted and napped when she wanted. Now at 14 months she has slipped into a routine of 1 nap at 11.30am. She did it herself and it's really quite odd to be able to predict her naps.

No routine was the best way for us and I'd do it again for sure.

[IndigoJ]

I never had a routine with DS, he slept when he wanted to, fed when he was hungry, DF worked away so i didnt have to worry about bub waking him. In the end DS "made" his own routine and slept through from abour 3-4mth. now he has a sleep routine but thats it (he is 15mths). Wakes up at 7:30, naps at 11:30-2 or 3, goes to bed at 7:30. Everything else is just done whenever.

[Bell & Bug]

I didnt really have a routine til my DD was about 8mths old, when I was desperate for my DD to sleep better.
Routine isnt for every one, baby or parent. If it works for you and your bub, keep going with it.

[BabelFish]

Our DD got herself into her own routine and is in a very set one now, but it's of her own doing and we are flexible if she is. Ever since she got her own routine I've been quite strict about her sleep times, because she is a baby who likes to sleep a lot and does still sleep a lot (4.5 - 5 hours during the day and 13 at night).

But she never had any routine at 13 weeks and I never expected her to. We're a bit of a `baby-led' house when it comes to things like that, and we've never had a day of trouble and have had a pretty much perfectly easy baby ever since she was born. We're very fortunate.

You sound like things are going beautifully - lucky you! :D

[Tam-I-Am]

At that age, it all sounds normal to me :) You're doing a fabulous job - just go with the flow, and let her tell you what she wants :)

[keepingpositive]

I'm so thankful for this thread! :yelclap: My DS isn't really in a routine either and I've been chastising myself for not being strong enough to force him into one. It's nice to know just letting him do what he wants and being happy is enough . :flowerz:

[kar]

We only started a routine because 'baby led' just wasn't working in our house - my baby led himself to not sleeping between 7am and 7pm and being completely hysterical for much of the day.

I had been actively anti routine, but found it just didn't work for us, so, my point is if no routine is working for you that is great! If you and your bub need one that is great too, the trick is trying to work out what works for your own house.

[missie_mack]

My almost 3 yr old has never had a routine and just found his own routine of his own accord. It hasn't effected him poorly in anyway nor has it us infact I think it made life a little more flexible :D

[cath]

My 5 month old son is just falling into a bit of a routine now. I think it is quite normal at 13 weeks for every day to be different - sometimes they have little naps, somtimes they have long sleeps. Don't worry about it too much. I think they become a bit more predictable at about 6 months or so. Just go with the flow until then.