How do you start your baby on a schedule?

Question

He's predictable in the sense where he wakes, feeds, plays (activity) and then back to sleep but the times are never the same. Do I just start one day at 7/8a regardless if he's still sleeping? He's never ready for bed between 7/8p and if he does happen to fall asleep it's only 2hrs maybe. I'm going back to work mid October. Just looking for some suggestions. I'm a FTM and he's 2 months old.

Answer

Yes, just one day start waking baby up at the same time and then a schedule will naturally happen!

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Start every day at 7am with a feed- even if you have to wake baby up. Check out the Moms on Call book. This was a life saver with both of my babies - taught me how to schedule them and get them sleeping through the night. My son started sleeping 7-7 at 7.5 weeks and now my 10 week old is as well but not as consistently as my son. Regardless, it’s an amazing resource

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I just follow he age appropriate awake windows (following littleones sleep program) 
I hate getting up in the morning so usually I let him wake me at whatever time after 8am. So it's hard for me to start everyday at the same time.
But even if I did, he is a bad napper so the lengths are all over the place. Most times he wakes early and if I can't get him back to sleep it would throw off the schedule if I was sticking with one. 
Awake for 2 ish hours. Nap. Awake 2 hours. Nap for ideal 2.5 hours but that never happens. Then awake and another nap, awake for 2 hours and bed. So that could mean anywhere from 730 to 930 bedtime depending on the last Nap.

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Agree with both previous posters. My 12 wk old is on a pretty consistent schedule now for the past 3 weeks from doing that. Works great did it with my oldest as well.

How do you start your baby on a schedule?

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