Bath time and Bed time

Wendy - posted on 06/25/2010 ( 2 moms have responded )

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Hi everyone, I have been giving my son born March 4 a bath every night before bed around 6:30pm and in bed around 7pm. I normally give him a breast feed around 6. So his current routine is feed, bath then bed. I am doing it this way to avoid him falling asllep on the breast as he has trouble self soothing and often wants to be fed to sleep. But his feed patterns vary from day to day and he may have a feed around 5pm so then of course he does not really want another until 8ish (or later) so I wonder whether it is ok to change the routine on those days so that he has his bath at 630 and his feed after that around 7 or 730pm or will this confuse him? bath, feed then bed. Because even when he feeds at 5ish and then has his bath then bed around 7 he will sleep through his next feed until about 10 or 11,, it's just very confusing for me and for him I guess to keep changing the bedtime/bathtime/feedtime but I am having trouble keeping it consistent, hope that makes sense.. Any pointers appreciated thanks

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Wendy - posted on 06/29/2010

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Thanks Samantha, yes March 4, no such luck with him sleeping thru the nite tho, I am breastfeeding so not sure how much he is getting but seems full and satisfied. So does your son go to bed around 1045-11:15 to wake at 8? Does he have a nap son before this 1045 bed time? My boy naps from 4 til 5 and then is exhausted by 7 so i feed him at 6 now, bath at 630 and bed by 7, He then wakes at midnight feeds and back down til 530-6. So yeh not a lot of slleep for me as it takes me ages to get back to sleep. Its hard to keep him up any later coz he will just cry and rub his eyes so yeh mayb when he gets older he will sleep through... I hope

Samantha - posted on 06/29/2010

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He was born march 4th? That's a day after my son. I feed him between 7 and 9 (he'll drink about 6-8 oz.) Give him a bath, then feed him again. I add cereal in the formula and he sleeps then from aroun 10:45-11:15 and wakes up about 8 am. I thought they started sleeping through the night around 10-12 weeks? Don't change not giving him a bath, cause he associates bath time with bed time. If you change the time, fine, I've done it.