Are you planning to use a schedule or continue to cues after the newborn phase?

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Currently deciding if a schedule is going to be better for our family vs continuing to follow our baby’s cues once he’s out of the newborn phase.  Right now he’s exclusively nursed on demand, sleeping through the night, and we follow all of his cues and have sleep trained successfully for 4 weeks (hopefully doesn’t change too bad with the 4 month sleep regression) for him to fall asleep on his own for his naps and sleep when he’s tired.. husband works out of town so often it’s just me at home with him by myself!  
what are you ladies planning?  Or what has worked with your other children??

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Both- I won’t let him go longer than 3 hours without feeding during the day. Typically I always feed him when he wakes up from a nap though which can sometimes be more like 2-2.5 hours. When we’re out and he’s crying I’ll nurse him just to quiet him down.

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Winging it. She tells me when she’s hungry, tired, wants to play.
The only thing I do is take her a bath before bed, & she knows the difference between nap & bedtime because of it. 
I feel like too much schedule means you have to revolve around baby & not live. Can’t leave the house or go on vacations or do anything outside of babies schedule.

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I feel like you’ll get into a schedule by following baby’s cues. It may not be exact, but it’s usually pretty darn close.

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A bit of both. I think my first was around 4 months and we started to introduce a proper schedule and it worked well. But there were still days where I’d have to go with cues instead.

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I always follow cues, but don't let my baby go longer than 3 hours between feeds during the day. If she wants to eat more often than that I feed her. I don't let her nap longer than 2 hours at a time during the day. She's a great sleeper at night (still gets up once or twice, but right back down after a bottle) and I firmly believe it's because of this "schedule" her and I have come up with.

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I have an 18month along with2and half baby. So schedule works for me.else it would be difficult managing 2.

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No idea. We aren’t on a schedule yet at 7.5 weeks.

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We’ve found that we’ve fallen into our own routine by following his cues. He sleeps 10-5 ish, feeds every three hours during the day, has short nap in the morning then two longer ones over lunch and late afternoon. Rest of the time we cuddle, play, tummy time etc.

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I go by his cues. I do try and put him down for a scheduled nap at the same time as my 1 yr old and we try and get him to bed at the same time every night. Which works for us.

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Both. Approximately  every 3 hours I look for hunger cues or expect a hungry baby. If for some reason baby is hungry sooner I feed a smaller amount.  Aiming for 30 oz per day.

Are you planning to use a schedule or continue to cues after the newborn phase?

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