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[quote=Anonymous]We’re 2 week schedule people. We’ve had two kids - one very easy baby, one much more difficult, borderline colic, and I think in both cases, we would have gone insane without a schedule.

The way this looks for us is that we track feedings in an app from day one. We wake to feed if it’s been three hours since the last feeding, day or night, but I think that’s pretty standard before they’re back to birthweight, or at least common. When the doctor says we can start doing longer stretches, we do so at nighttime only. We never let a baby go more than 3 hours between feedings (start to start) until after they are reliably sleeping through the night. Then around 10 days, we start waking the baby at our desired daily wake time. For the first it was 8am, for the second 7am to help mesh with big brother’s schedule. After a few day of this, you’ve got a good sense of the baby’s rhythm. Does she tend to wake herself after 2 or 2.5 hours? Are you often having to wake her? Is it different at different times of the day (eating every two hours is sooo common at night)? Then we take a look at the two weeks of data we have, see what works for our baby, combine that with what works for our lives, and come up with a schedule.

For us, schedule at this age is feeding times. We do eat/wake/sleep and determine when to put baby down for a nap based on wake windows, which involves a lot of trial and error. We always wake baby to eat on the schedule, and at least in the early weeks, we rock to sleep for naps as needed, though as baby ages, we’ll start working on independent sleep skills and allow a little fussing as he tries to put himself to sleep (just a few minutes). If that doesn’t work, we rock to sleep.

While I think this has worked well for us, I think whether you do a schedule or not is more about what works for you, the parents. Babies can thrive both with or without a schedule, but their parent’s sanity is priceless. [/quote]

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