When Piper wakes, I dress her and put her in a disposable diaper. I prep things for our day and maybe grab a few minutes on the computer. She usually sleeps about 45 minutes in her bassinet in our bedroom. I've only been trying baby signing for a week.ġ0 a.m.: Nurse and nap. She squeals at the cat and I show her the signs for "cat" and the things she's playing with. (We're doing infant potty training.)ĩ to 10 a.m.: Piper plays on the floor wearing a cloth diaper or without a diaper (I put waterproof pads over the rug). I sign "potty" and we go to the living room so she can pee in her little potty. I take off her diaper and pj's and give her a T-shirt or short dress. Schedule 1: A breastfeeding attachment-parenting mom of a 6-month-oldĮditor's note: This schedule is a baby-led routineĦ to 8 a.m.: Piper (who sleeps with me) moves around without waking, and I nurse her or pat her and she continues to sleep.Ĩ to 9 a.m.: I kiss Piper awake and we snuggle in the bed for a few minutes. Try reading to your little one, giving your baby a massage, or going for a stroller walk.
#6 month old daily schedule how to#
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Up to 32 ounces of breast milk or formula in a 24-hour period.We asked parents of 5- and 6-month-olds to share their baby's daily schedule, then picked the eight below as a helpful representation.Īs you're creating a schedule for your baby, keep in mind that at 5 and 6 months most babies need: That said, it can be a big help to see what other moms and dads are doing. You'll learn to read your baby's cues to develop a pattern of eating, sleeping, and playing that meets your little one's needs and works for your family. Every once in a while we have one of those days when one baby sleeps so much worse than the other, but since they have the same bedtime, the system gets "reset" daily.Getting into a routine with your baby is a personal thing. If one baby wakes up before the other, and has slept at least an hour, I'll get him out of his crib but make sure to wake up the other twin within 20 minutes so they don't get too out of sync. This one can last anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour and a halfģish: Bottle and solids (fruit and veggie)Ĥ:30ish: Catnap (half hour-hour) to avoid pre-bedtime meltdowns (sometimes we melt down anyway.)ĥ:30/6: Play with Daddy when he gets home, sit with us at dinnerĦ:30: Bedtime routine (bath, PJs, bottle), down by 7 PMĪs far as their naps go, my rule of thumb is that they need to go down absolutely no later than 2 hours after waking up from the last nap (usually it's more like an hour and a half) so they don't get overtired and fight the sleep.
My guys are almost 6 mo, and our day usually looks like this (the times can vary up to an hour, as you'll notice, based on when they wake up and how long their naps last):Ħ:30/7:30: Wake up, get dressed, bottle and solids (cereal and fruit), play a little until naptime (they usually get sleepy pretty quickly)Ĩ:30/9:30: Nap 1.5-2 hrs (2 hrs if I'm super lucky) then play until next feedingġ1/12: Bottle and more play until naptimeġ2:30/1:30: Second nap. We are getting a good amount of sleep and although they do fight the morning nap they are pretty happy the rest of the day. Then we play, every other night they have baths and typically their bed time bottle (we put cereal in this) happens around 8:30 and they are in bed by 9PM. They have another solid food meal around 5:30, I try to have them at the table when we eat so they can get used to that, and a bottle. They do take another nap between 3 and 5, this is the much easier nap and don't have as hard a time getting them to sleep.
We have another bottle and play until about 3PM. We get typically an hour of sleep and then they are up. They play until around 10:30/11 and then we start the nap battle, they are noticeably tired but fight sleep so usually they are down around noon. We have breakfast (solids) around 8:30 and then another bottle. Somewhere between 7 and 8 AM they typically go back to sleep for an hour. They wake up usually between 5 and 6AM and we have bottles. My boys will be 6 months old on Monday and our day looks something like this I feel your frustration as we are also struggling to get them to nap during the day, at this point I'll take any naps schedule or no schedule.
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