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[quote=Anonymous]Depends what you mean by schedule!

My baby was on a very predictable sleep and eating schedule at 4 months. Three naps a day with predictable feeds and wakeful periods.

However, she was on a schedule before that, too, it’s just that it was one that was less convenient for me. She was waking up between 5 and 6 am every morning, eating, and then falling back asleep until 8 or 9. And then for the rest of the day she’d wake up, be alert for an hour, get hungry, and fall asleep for an hour. Until about 5pm, at which point she’d go through a two to five hour fussy period (probably gas) before finally falling asleep breastfeeding sometime between 7 and 10pm. That schedule sucked! But it was still a schedule and it was remarkable consistent. Fortunately it only lasted a couple months!

I’d just stuck with continuing to respond to your baby’s needs and see how it goes. The wakeful periods start to stretch out. The random 15-30 minute naps thus disappear, and the three or four “real” naps then become more predictable and reliable. Chronic fussiness is really common at the 2-4 month age but usually fades, and that was exactly our experience. Plus nighttime sleep just keeps getting better and that makes everything else easier because you are less sleep deprived.

But yeah, it takes some time. Around 3.5 months was when I felt like we hit our stride and really got into a good rhythm that worked for us.[/quote]

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