Need Advice for 12 month Schedule

I am looking for some advice for 12 month schedules. We went to the dr yesterday and it seems as though my schedule is all wrong. It took me so long to get them to this schedule and now I have to change. Mine are early risers 5am and are still taking 3 naps a day. Below is my schedule and advice on how to go to 2 naps a day and get rid of 1 bottle would be great. Can you send your schedule

5am wake
6 am bottle 6-7 ounces
730 nap
9 breakfast with juice
1030-11 bottle 5-7 ounces
1130 nap
1 lunch with juice
230-3 bottle 5-6 ounces
5 dinner with juice
630 bath
7 bottle
730 bed

Also what snacks and how much do u give throughout the day?

Thanks!!! I feel so overwhelmed.

 

Do you think they are waking at 5AM just for a bottle? Have you ever tried to give them one and put them back down?

At 12 months our schedule was as follows:

Wake 7AM, bottle and breakfast
Nap 9AM -11AM
Lunch at noon
Bottle #2
Nap 2PM - 4PM
Dinner and bottle
Bedtime by 7PM

And for the record, I don't think you (or anyone) is doing anything wrong. :hug: If it's working (and working well) for you and your kids, then you are doing the perfect thing. :good:

 

We are 1 today and our schedule is changing this week because we are dropping bottles, but this is what our schedule looks like. I'm offering a lot of milk in their sippies right now, but they don't actually drink that much. I offer non-stop it seems to try to get enough in them. Also, giving lots of pudding, yogurt, cheese, etc

6:30 wake/bottle (this is the only bottle they get and it's whole milk, not formula)
7:30 breakfast (eggs, waffles, oatmeal, yogurt - not all obviously, just something like that and milk in sippies)
8:30 nap
10 wake (I offer them some milk from their sippies when they wake up and keep trying to get sips in for the next hour or so)
11 or so lunch (maybe mac n' cheese, grilled cheese sandwich, soup, veggies, etc)
1 nap
2:30 - 3 wake (offer milk)
4 snack (nutrigrain bar, cheerios, goldfish, etc)
5:15 bath if it's bath night
6:15 - 6:30 dinner (pretty much the same type of stuff as lunch)
7 bedtime

Mine just started two naps a couple of weeks ago and it's going really well. I feel like I'm trying to feed them all of the time and give them milk constantly to make up for no formula. I feel like I'm going to starve them! I try to give purees still some too, although mine are hating that and only want to feed themselves. I also leave a sippie of water out all day for them to drink as they want.

Good luck!!

 

My two had dropped to two naps at 6-7 months, so this was our schedule at 12 months. Also we were not bottle free at 12 months (that did not happen until 15-16 months)
7:30-8: wake
Breakfast/bottle (at 12 months they were still eating baby cereal and fruit)
9:30-11: nap
11:30: lunch (toast, grilled cheese, waffles, eggs, etc. fruits/veggies)
12:30-1: snack (if they seemed hungry) -might be yogurt, cereal bar, graham crackers,fruit or veggie
2:00: bottle
2:30-4 nap
4:30 dinner (whatever we were eating)
6:00: snack (if they seemed hungry)
7:30: bedtime bottle
* they had a water sippy throughout the day
I agree with Liz that I don't think there is anything wrong with your schedule, if the kids are happy then I would not change anything. I usually went by my kids when I made a change (dropping a bottle or a nap). I also would try when they wake at 5am giving them a bottle and seeing if they would go back to sleep after that.

 

They don't have a bottle for at least an hour and they are not starved when I give it to them. I looks like everyone gives 3 bottles a day and I am giving 4 but since they are getting up so early I don't know what else to do. How do I consolidate sleep and cut out a bottle?

 

I cut out the 5 am bottle. They used to wake up for it but they they would just be up and go back to sleep around 7:30.
When I did that they would wake up and just talk a bit and would go back to sleep, so the first bottle (now sippi) is
at 7 a.m. I did push dinner later- 5;30 pm, with milk after that before the bath.
Naps in the afternoon never really whent well, so now they sleep from 9:30 am until abut 11 or 11:30.
I much rather have an early bedtime than 45 min. nap in the afternoon with a lot of crying because they did not
want to go down (morning is never a problem)

 

i think you could try a couple of different things. one would be to give them their 6:00am bottle at 5:00am when they wake up & then see if they'll go right back to sleep. try & give them their bottle in their room, with the lights off (or low), don't talk or play with them & try to avoid eye contact. if that works, do that for a while & then just don't give them that bottle anymore & see if they'll sleep right through.

the other option would be to stop giving the 6:00am bottle entirely & when they wake up at 5:00am try different soothing techniques to see if you can get them to go back to sleep.

or, if they wake up at 5:00am, don't go in until 5:15am. do that for a few days and then don't go in until 5:30am, etc. keep increasing the time till you go in until you have the wake up time you want.

remember too that whenever you're making changes to their schedule it helps to commit to the change for at least 4 - 7 days so you can really see if it's making a difference. just because it doesn't work the first day doesn't mean it isn't going to work, KWIM? GL!

 

This is our schedule for 12 mo (and still for 14 mo)

730 get them from bed in am (they wake earlier15-20, but chat, hang out, I want to keep this skill up!)
We come downstairs and they get a sipppie cup of milk in the kitchen
830 Bfast with milk in chairs
930 nap until around 11/1130
12:30/1245 milk and eat lunch in chairs, seems like a long window to me but when I try to feed them earlier, like we are going out, they don't eat much and tend to toss the food aside
200/215 down for nap
430 snack and milk
545 dinner and milk (yes a mere 1 hr later! pitiful but only way it works here)
615 upstairs
645 in bed, they get a straw cup of milk prior to teeth and stories.

They have a straw cup all day of water they can drink from but milk/food is at food times/in high chairs, except first milk in the am, we sit on the floor in the kitchen.

 

Well, if your schedule works for you, it is not wrong, no matter what the Dr says!

But this is ours (Mattie turned one on the 21st):

5:30 wakes up for bottle - takes it in his bed and goes right back to sleep
8:ish up
8:30 breakfast usually fruit and yogurt
9:30 - 10:30 morning nap is always short, sometimes shorter than this
10:30 snack - cereal or crackers
12:30 bottle and nap
3:30 - snack cookies or fruit, pretzels, etc
6:00 dinner
8:00 bottle and bed