What's Your Schedule..

[playdate4]

Just curious what schedule you have for under 1? How many naps? Playtime?etc...

[blandino]

For under 1, I really have no set schedule. I would say on average the younger infants 4-7 months usually take 3 naps a day. 1 morning, 1 small midday, and 1 afternoon. As they get older they drop the midday nap. My kids usually do two naps a day until 14-16 months.

Bottles totally depend on the child. Usually every 3-4 hours. I usually introduce lunch at 6 months, and then they normally go to 2 bottles during daycare ( 1 morning and 1 afternoon), but it totally depends on the child.

[playdate4]

the little girl I have comes at 7 eats at 8:30 and sleeps from 9 to 12 then bottle then plays then go home I don't have a schedule for her either my own children 17 month and 3 yr old do but I hope DCK can fall into it when she is older

[dingledine]

Breakfast a bit after 730am, clean up, play, read stories with them, whatever, snack at 9, if I have infants, lay them down after bottle, change diapers, after snack, play freely, read as needed, talk about the weather, set up some activities for the bigger kids, monitor small children, maybe do some starfall on the computer. I start making lunch at 11:30, we start eating, no later than noon, change diapers, lay kids down around 12:30 or so. Get up around 2, keep the ones up early with me in another room until every is up, go outside for 30-60 minutes, come in, wash up, change diapers, have a snack, do art, free play, tidy up before time to go, get kids bags together, let them do starfall, or one pbs video if time allows, to help maintain the clean room until parents come.

[Play Care]

Just curious what schedule you have for under 1? How many naps? Playtime?etc...

With infants I try to gently get them on a two nap schedule. They come in at 7:30, I feed, burp, change diaper and put them down for nap for 8:00. About two hours later it's wake up and play time for about an hour or so. This is tummy time, neighborhood walks, etc. then it's bottle time again and nap from say 12:30- 3:00. I don't believe in waking babies but I do try to make sure they are up and fed by 3:30/4:00 so they will be ready to play and then be fed again once they get home. There have been times were I've had big sleepers and it was more like a 3 hour AM nap and a three hour PM nap and I did feel a little guilty because I was getting paid for baby to sleep.

[Lavender]

Every child is different. I don't get them until they are around 8 months though.

[craftymissbeth]

I try to get them on a routine, but it's pretty flexible and we can totally ditch it if they want to shake it up a bit

I have a 10 month old who comes at 6:15 am and a 4 month old who comes at 7:15.

7:30 - 4 month old gets a bottle and goes back to sleep
9:00 - both infants get a bottle and have a morning nap
12-1:00 - both infants get a bottle and have an afternoon nap

The 4 month old gets a bottle whenever he wants, but the 10 month old is currently only getting 2 bottles while she's here and the rest at home.

The 10 mo is picked up at 3:00 and the 4 mo at 3:45... and he's usually ready for another nap around the time dcm comes to get him.

HTH!

ETA: The 10 month old has breakfast at 8 and lunch at 11:30