![]() I have been doing a schedule like this the past 3 weeks:ģ:30-4 am night feeding (sometimes he will sleep through this and not wake-up until morning which is 9.5 hours!)Īm I putting his to bed too late and maybe this is why he is taking such long naps during the day? If so, how do I get him onto a better schedule. ![]() One question I have that hasn’t been addressed in any blog I’ve read is whether or not I should wake him up from his naps or if I should let him wake up on his own. ![]() We were previously waking him up every 3 hours to eat, however, he consistently wants to sleep longer at his naps, sometimes hitting the 4 hour mark since his last feeding. ![]() Hi! My son is now 10 weeks old and we have been working on his EASY schedule since he turned 4 weeks old. Just in case you missed the link for the FREE PRINTABLE EASY CHEAT SHEET. Preschoolers will usually take 1 nap a day (or drop naps completely by ages 3-4) and have 3 meals w/2 snacks a day. Generally, toddlers (1 yr+) take 1-2 naps and have 3 meals w/2 snacks a day. After this age, the day doesn’t really lend itself to the E-A-S-Y pattern anymore. The last sample schedule goes up to about 1 year. If you aren’t establishing some predictability and structure by 3-4 months, you are setting yourself up for a lot of habit-breaking, fussiness and even poor eating and sleeping later on.Ħ. An infant doesn’t understand what’s best for him/her. Again, be flexible but remember that you are the adult and parent. So even though you may desperately want to have an organized schedule, babies certainly don’t understand that (and they just don’t give a crap). All the parenting experts I’ve read (Hogg, Karp, Ferber, Ezzo, Sears, Weissbluth, to name a few) agree that you should always be in tune with your child’s needs. Follow your child’s cues, but use parental judgement. Harvey Karp, author of The Happiest Baby on the Block, hypothesizes that babies ages 0-3 month are making up for their “Missing Fourth Trimester.” My advice is to go with the flow and just try to make baby as comfy as possible while he’s adjusting to life on Earth!ĥ. Hogg clearly states that the first six weeks is a time of huge adjustment. Don’t stress about a schedule for babies under 2-3 months. Read more on what do When E.A.S.Y is Not So Easy.Ĥ. Do not feel like a failure if your day doesn’t go as planned! Flexibility is something that all parents learn sooner or later. By no means are you supposed to be following these suggestions minute-to-minute. These samples are simply guidelines of how you can structure your day. I just figured that for most people, the bath and bedtime ritual is longer than the 30 minutes Hogg indicates.ģ. So, you’ll see that bedtime might be between 7:30-8:00 (slightly different than what’s written in the book). I’ve made a few minor adjustments based on my experience. These schedules are adapted from the The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems (Hogg and Blau). If you aren’t already familiar with the Baby Whisperer’s E.A.S.Y method, please visit my Parenting Tips section to read a detailed explanation:Ģ. The E.A.S.Y Cheat Sheet includes 4 schedules which span the ages of 4 weeks to about 1 year. Be sure to Share, Like, Tweet, Pin, Email it to your heart’s content! I love having useful content shared! I thought this would be the perfect time to create a cheat sheet with all of the Baby Whisperer’s E.A.S.Y Schedules on one easy-to-reference page! Download and print the E.A.S.Y Cheat Sheet here. I feel like I’ve been living in the lap of luxury for the past two years with Noob Baby sleeping an average of 11 hrs at night! Did I just voluntarily sign up to sacrifice all that beauty sleep again?! And by “beauty sleep”… I mean SANITY sleep. With our second noob on the way this May, I’ve been rereading many of my parenting books with more intensity, attention and renewed trepidation.
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