Anyone else not have their baby on a schedule yet?

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I feel like a huge loser when people ask me when my daughters nap time is and I say 🤷🏻‍♀️ She wakes up, naps, and goes to bed at all different times. I've tried to be consistent but I can never stick to it. But starting Monday I plan on setting my alarm to get her up at the same time every day and get her to bed at the same time every night. Hopefully I can get her naps on a schedule too. It's just hard for me because she's still up multiple times every night to nurse and I'm basically still in survival mode. Does anyone have any tips for how to get baby on a schedule? Especially for naps

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I also replied to your comment on another thread, I’d say don’t try to change how she goes to sleep at the same time as putting her on a schedule. Give 4 days for every step, so for 4 days establish consistent sleep cues. Maybe putting her in a sleep sack putting on white noise, for us saying goodnight neighbours and closing the curtains is the start, make it something fast so when you see she’s tired you can do it and do it every time. Then do 4 days making her schedule. And then once she’s used to her schedule and cue start putting her in her crib. The hardest part for me at this age is remembering how much they understand so try and continuously explain what you’re doing and what you will be doing over the next few days, she might not understand 100% but it will help prepare her. It took my son 2 days when I switched him to a schedule, I was convinced it wouldn’t work but amazed when it did but he was 9 months old, now at one they have a stronger idea of “want” so it can be a little harder.

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honestly I found that of you can get a bed time set they will wake up at about the same time every morning

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Just follow her lead. Even at a year old she probably does have some kind of pattern, e.g. my girl has her first nap about 3 - 3 and a half hours after waking up. Once you get her following the same pattern it'll be easier to then manipulate the timings to suit you. Like my girl used to go to bed at 11pm and get up late, and I went with it for a while but it was exhausting and not very practical, and I never spent any time with my husband. She now goes to bed at about 7:30pm so it is possible!

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best thing is to start with the bedtime and the naps will naturally work themselves out. I finally got my little one on a routine around 9 months. there is a great blog I read that was a lifesaver. 
http://www.weebeedreaming.com/my-blog/sample-schedule-4-months-up
I would surf that website. It talks about starting with the bedtime routine. if your LO is eating at night it's either A) bc she is not eating enough during the day (something my pediatrician said) or B) she has made the association adds now it's just out of habit. once you establish a good night time routine things should fall into place. if you don't I would recommend recording naps on this app. I started to notice patterns and could better predict naps. Good luck!

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essentially,  I do bath pjs etc bed , I used to do bath at 630 every night, but sometimes he is way tired at 5 pm ... sometimes I get him down easily, others takes more time. I do NOT have a nap schedule at all mostly because even tho I can tell he's tired, he fights naps so hard! we wake up between 6-630am to get my older son out for school.

Anyone else not have their baby on a schedule yet?

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