Textbook babies

[sal_amanda]

I have three books on babies and sleeping and eating and whatnot that tend to run with my personal parenting philosophy.  All three have stated that babies should move into a cycle of sleeping, then eating, then being active, and then start all over again.  Up until recently, I thought they were all nuts.  Or that I had a freakish child.  She did sleep, then eat, and then be active a little, but then she'd sleep and then wake up again before she was hungry.  So then sometimes she'd sleep again and then be active again before eating, or sometimes sleep again then eat, or just be cranky because she was tired.  Whatever.  But she really is fitting that pattern now.  

First was her feeding cycle.  She eats 7-9 oz four times a day, approximately 4 hours apart, but sometimes 3 1/2 and sometimes 4 1/2, depending on her needs.  And now with the tummy napping, she'll have a morning nap of 2 - 2 1/2 hours and an afternoon nap of 1 1/2 - 2 hours, right before she gets up to eat.  So she sleeps at night, eats, is active, naps, eats, is active, naps, eats, is active, catnaps in the early evening, is active, eats, sleeps at night...  

Nora is somehow becoming a textbook baby.  Now let's see how daycare screws all that up.  ;)

Comments

[busybusymama.livejournal.com]

Yeah for Nora!!! Hopefully, daycare should help keep it consistent. The only people I know of that really complain about daycare messing up schedules are people with older kids - 2 or 3, or even 4 years old in daycare where the daycare lets them nap for hours and hours (they supposedly aren't allowed to wake them up or not let them nap at all - state regulations) and then the kids are up ALL night. But as long as their routine isn't too far off from yours, in theory, it should work.

good luck!

[sal_amanda]

They're not allowed to wake them up? I don't get that at all.

The only thing that's going to screw it up is the regulation about not letting her sleep on her stomach because she's going to go back to her catnapping. I told them this morning to do whatever it took to get her to sleep a total of 4-5 hours while she's there. Otherwise, I have a cranky baby in the evening.