advice on creating a routine for a 5 month old?

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Something that's easy to stick to and effective, she is ebf and a terrible napped and all round grumpy baby!

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I had a terrible napper too, and despite my best efforts, I couldn't get her on a schedule. We did sleep training at 5 months, and that was great because we got our evenings back, but daytime sleep was still unpredictable. I would try to put her down for a nap after 2-2.5 hours awake, but I never knew if she was going to nap for 30 minutes or 90! We didn't try nap training until almost 7 months, but once we did her naps got a bit better.  You might want to consider sleep training if you haven't already, or you may just have to wait until she develops the ability to consolidate her daytime sleep.  Now at 8 months my daughter is down to 2 naps, and she is able to nap at roughly the same time every day!

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I don't have a 5 month old, my son is 2 months but I found these on Pinterest. Tips I've seen for helping start a baby on some sort of schedule is to try and stick to it for a week and by then baby should be use to the routine. Sorry! Grumpy baby = grumpy mama in my case. Stay strong! Sometimes babies just need to cry and as long as you have changed, fed and done all you can think of and baby still won't calm you can just lay baby in swing or bed and go in another room and try the cry it out method. I haven't had to do that yet but I've read a lot about it. Just depends on what you prefer. Good luck!

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We're at 10 weeks but have found the book "The Natural Baby Sleep Solution" incredibly helpful and have friends with older babies who swear by it. It's great because it helps your baby get enough sleep and it walks you through figuring out your baby's natural schedule and how that changes over time. It's based around the idea of the 90 minute sleep/wake cycle.

advice on creating a routine for a 5 month old?

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