Compiling Data: Please post your 4 mos. old schedules!

We are working towards getting some scheduling info together as a resource addition to our "sleep sticky" and would like to know what you 4 mo. olds schedules look like/looked like (roughly) Thank you!!!

example:

7:00 wake/bottle or bf
8:30 nap
10:00 feed
11:30 nap
12:30 wake


etc. etc. you get the idea. Thank you for your participation!!

 

At 4 months:

6 AM -- wake up, eat a 5 oz bottle
7 AM -- fruits
8 AM -- nap time
10 AM -- bottle (5 ounces)
10:30 AM -- playtime, usually I tried putting them in the floor on their playmat or in their swings or bouncy's to play with their toys that were attached.
11:30 AM -- nap time again
1:00 PM -- rice cereal mixed with formula, play in their walkers
2:00 PM -- another bottle
3:00 PM -- naptime
5:00 PM -- bottle
7:00 PM -- bath time, followed by playtime
9:00 PM -- bottle and to bed

 

It isn't much of a schedule but...

nap times between feedings vary...

6:30 - wake the girls up, change and feed
(10 minutes BF and 2.5 oz. formula)
8:00 or 8:15 - Nap
8:30 or 8:45 - play
10:00 - 5 oz. bottle
10:30 - nap till whenever then play
1:30 - 5.5 oz. bottle
2:00 - nap till whenever then play
5:00 - 5.5 oz. bottle
some time in here nap
8:15 - every other night bath
8:30 - 10 min. BF and 2.5 oz. EBM
9:00 - bed

 

6:30 wake
7:30 bottle 6 oz
8:30 nap
9:30 play
10:30 bottle 6 oz
11:00 nap
1:00 play
1:30 bottle 6 oz
2:00 nap
3:00 play
3:30 bottle 4oz
4:00 nap in swing
5:00 play
6:00 bath
6:30 bottle
7:00 bed

to the best of my recollection

 

I found that my kiddos routine tends to me more like 4 mons. IT is probably because they are 6 weeks early. THanks for posting moms!

 

Nap times SERIOUSLY vary but....

5am-8oz bottle
7ish-nap
10am-wake up and 8oz bottle
play until 2ish...if they need to they grab a nap while playing on the floor
2pm-8oz bottle
4 ish-nap until 6
6pm-8oz bottle.
6.30-bath, baby massage
7.15-bed.

unless there's something wrong, thats it until 5am-ish
I have one baby getting 1tsp cereal per oz of formula in his ottle due to refluz, and on who still hasnt tried the cereal.

 

schedule?...whats a schedule...

 

8:00 am - Wake up/cereal & fruit
9:00 - 6 oz. bottle
9:30 - 10:00 - Down for a nap
12:00 pm - Wake from nap/Playtime
1:00 - 6 oz. bottle
1:30 - 2:00 - Go down for nap
4:00 - Wake up from nap/2 oz. juice
5:00 - Cereal & veggies/sometimes a 5 oz. bottle
7:00 - Bathtime
7:30 - 6 oz. bottle
8:00 - 8:30 - Bedtime

Somewhere between 5 pm and 7 pm, they usually take a short cat nap.

 

~8-8:30am-wake up (various a LOT every day!) & breastfeed, then play]
~10am (2 hrs after wake)-nap
~1pm-wake up, feed, & play
~3pm-nap
~4:30pm- wake up, feed, play
6:30pm- bathtime
7pm- stories (to big brother) while feeding
~8-9pm- bedtime
~3-4 am- wake to feed

It's not really a schedule--it changes CONSTANTLY! But the nighttime routine is always the same...mostly I just follow their cues, though. Which often means one is awake while the other is asleep!

 

7am wake up
7:30 bottle and play
9-10am naptime
11am bottle and play
2pm bottle and play
4pm oatmeal cereal
5pm bottle
6pm bath and bottle
7pm sleep

 

oops, forgot the afternoon nap around 2:30pm - 4pm

 

7:00-7:30 Wake up
7:30 Nurse
8:00 Nap
8:00am-6:00pm All **** breaks loose
6:00-6:45 Bath, Nurse, Bed
6:45pm-7:00am Get up 100 times

 

Naps vary greatly w/ my girls too, but here goes nothing:

5:00am wake- 6oz bottle
6:30- short cat nap while on the way to daycare
9:00 am fruit & cereal w/ bottle
10:30-11:30- supposed to nap
11:30-1:00 play
1:00- 6oz bottle
1:30-2:30or 3- nap
5:00 4oz bottle w/ veggies
6:30- bath
sometime they have a little cat nap before their bath.
7:30- night time cereal bottle 7oz
in bed by 8.

 

5-5:30a-wake up drink 4oz formula
playtime (i do dishes & vacuum)
8 or 8:30-drink cereal bottle
playtime
10:30-12p-Douglas naps, Sarah cat naps or is being held
12:30- 4-5oz. formula
playtime (i do laundry & pick up a.m toys)
1:30 or 2- all 4 of us try to nap
3:30- 4-5oz. formula
playtime
6:30- 4-5 oz formula (fussy time begins!!!)
fuss, cat nap, play, fuss some more
9pm-4-5 oz formula
9:30-Douglas down til 1:30a sometimes 3:30a ; and if i'm lucky til 5:30a (get 4 oz bottles if i can't pacify him back to sleep without one)
10p-Sarah down til 1:30a, 3:30a, 5a-5:30a (get 4 oz bottles if i can't pacify her back to sleep without one)

 

ok, it's not really a schedule but most days work out something like this...
5-7am play the binky game
7am-8 oz bottle
8am nap
9am play
10am 7oz bottle
cat nap/play
11/12pm cereal
1pm 7 oz bottle
1-2 hopefully nap
2-3 play
4 pm 7oz bottle
4/6 pm play, cat nap
6pm veggies and cereal
cat nap
7 bath and play
8/9 bed
usually they will sleep until 5 and then play the binky game again. all of this is of course subject to change and by the way there are 3 other children thrown into the mix!!!!

 

Here is the most recent sucess:

6-630 am feed
sleep right after
wake at 8-30 am
feed at 9 am
nap at 11 am
feed at 12 pm
nap at 130-2pm
feed 3pm
nap at 4-5pm
feed 6pm
start badtime process at 9pm
feed at 9pm,
feed at 1030-11pm
sleep till wake
if wake earlier than 5 or 6 am, sooth back to sleep with occasional feed at night

 

Just about 4 months

4-5 am nurse
630-7 am get up
730-8 am 6 oz bottle
830-930 nap
10-11 am - tummy time
11am nurse
1130-2 pm nap
230 - nurse
430-5 pm nurse
630 pm bath
7pm 8 oz bottle
730 swaddle / bed

 

To keep this alive and not have our schedules purged....

 

During the week:
6:30-7am wake up, change & feed 6 oz. formula
8am-5:45pm daycare - sleep, eat, play, poop
6:30-7pm bath (2x/week) & feed 6 oz. formula
7:30-8pm bedtime

Weekend:
6:30-7am wake up, feed 6 oz. & try to get them back to sleep
8-9am (if I'm lucky) wake up & play
9-9:30 or 10am nap
10am feed 6 oz.
10:30-12pm play/cartoons (I know- bad mommy!)
12-1pm nap
1pm feed 6 oz.
1:30-3pm play
3-4pm nap
4pm feed 6 oz.
4:30-7pm play or nap or some of both (storytime usually in here somewhere)
7pm feed 6 oz.
7:30pm bedtime

 

Here's mine:

7am-wake up, bottle, play
8:30am - down for a nap
11am - bottle, play
12:30pm - down for a nap
3pm - bottle-cereal, play
5pm - down for a catnap
7pm (or as close as we can get) - bottle
7:30-8pm - bedtime
10pm - bottle (sometimes dreamfeed, sometimes cuddle).

They normally sleep through with me waking them at 7am...sometimes they fuss around 5am, but the paci puts them back to sleep.

We are on a good 4 hour schedule...good sleepers, good eaters, love to play, happy babies!

 

Well we still our not on a firm schedule but it generally goes like this:

6:30am Kelsey up & nurses
7:30am Grant up & nurses
9:00 am naptime both
11:30am Mom home from work so nurse both babies
1:00 -1:30pm naptime begins both will sleep 2 hours
4:00-5:00pm nurse both babies
5:00pm short catnap both
7:30pm nurse Kelsey and she is in bed by 8pm
9:00pm nurse Grant and he is in bed by 9:30pm

Kelsey will sometimes get up around 3am for a feeding. Grant sleeps thru the night.

Mary
Lindsey 2-18-04
Grant & Kelsey 9-18-06

 

The first part of the day is relatively the same. After the first nap, their schedule varies day by day.

630-700 wake/nurse: both
800-830 nurse/nap: both
930-1000 ds wakes from nap and nurses
1030-1100 dd wakes from nap and nurses

They are awake no longer than 1.5 hours. They get pretty sleepy. My dd will have an early afternoon nap around 1200, which lasts about 1-2 hours and an early evening cat nap around 330 and sleeps no later than 430ish. NOW, my ds will have three more naps, usually, although that seems to be changing. After he wakes from his first nap, he stays awake about an hour to 1.5 hours and naps for about 40 min in duration, hence the need for four naps.

Both get ready for bed around 545 and asleep for the most part between 630/700. Still wake a few times to nurse at night. I nurse on demand. They are definitely not sleeping through.

 

Our twins' naps vary in length from 40min - 2hrs, but they're consistently having 3 naps per day now. I bf on demand, so I'm not including feedings here:

7am - wake
9am-10am - nap
10am - play
noon-1pm - nap
1pm-3pm - play
3pm-4pm - nap
6ish - to bed for the night
3am - wake to nurse

They sometimes wake more often, but the 3am bf'ing is guaranteed.

 

Typical day last month:

0700 Wake up and eat and back to sleep
1000 Wake and eat
1000-1130 play
12-1 nap (if lucky)
1300 feed
1345-1500 play
1500-nap
1630-feed
1700- play
1800-feed and Daddy comes home, schedule goes down the drain
2200 bed, if not earlier

 

7:00 wake up/nurse/play
9:00 nap (lasts 1-2 hours)
11:00-12:00 wake up/nurse/play
1:00-2:00PM nap (lasts 1-2 hours)
3:00 - 4:30 wake up/nurse/play
5:30 - depending on when last nurse was, we nurse again and then start our bath/bed routine.
6:00PM Bed
10:00PM-midnight (somewhere around this time we have a wake up & quick nurse then back to bed)
2:00AM - 4:00AM (somewhere around this time we usually have a second wake up with a quick nurse & then back to bed

The only thing that I can count on is a 7AM wake up and a 9:00 nap. The naps can range from an hour to 3 hours sometimes! I just let them sleep as much as they want and they don't stay on the same schedule during the day usually but then at night we get them back on the same schedule.

We always do Wake/Nurse/Play/Sleep, in that order.

 

Naps are definitely not a strong point so those vary a lot, but this is the definite eating schedule...

During the week:
6am - wake
6:15-6:30am - eat 7 oz
7am - DH takes them to daycare
9am - eat 7 oz
12pm - eat 7 oz
1-2pm - I pick them up from daycare
catnap on the way home
3pm - eat 7 oz
5pm - nap
6-6:30pm - eat 7 oz
7-7:30pm - Bath, lotion, prayers, & bed
Usually wake up once for their paci (no eating at night unless they are sick or something)

During the weekend:
6-6:30am - wake and eat 7 oz bottle
7am - try to get them back to sleep
8-8:30am - wake
9am - eat 7 oz bottle
10:30am - nap sometimes
12pm - eat 7 oz bottle
2pm - nap sometimes
3pm - eat 7 oz bottle
5pm - nap sometimes
6-6:30pm - eat 7 oz
7-7:30pm - Bath, lotion, prayers, & bed
Usually wake up once for their paci (no eating at night unless they are sick or something)

 

My guys are 4.5 months and we are still working out a schedule, but most days go like this -

630ish wake
7:00 - 7:15 nurse
playtime on the floor
8:00 naptime - they nap about an hour, sometimes more in the morning
9:15 or when they get up, change diapers and play
10:00 nurse
playtime
11:00 naptime

the rest of the day depends on their naps and how long they nap, but they nurse every 3 hours. I try not to let them sleep past 430 when I can so that they go down to bed by 7 but sometimes that just doesn't work, if they wake from a nap at 330, by 530 they are fussy and crying so much and so tired I have to let them nap a bit, then bedtime is later.

6:00 or 6:15 bedtime routine, I start it depending on when they last woke up from a nap
shut blinds, turn down lights, bath, nighttime lotion, nurse, in bed usually by 7-7:30

Wake around 2-3 to nurse

Start all over!!!

We tried cereal for a few days when they turned 4 months and they just aren't ready for it, we aer holding off for a month or so.

 

6-630 am feed sometimes 7am all depends
sleep right after
wake at 8-30 am or 9ish
feed at 9 am cereal
nap at 11 am
feed at 12 pm cereal & fruit/veggie
nap at 130-2pm
feed 3pm bottle only
possible catnap
feed 5:30 - 6pm (somewhere in between) cereal & veggie/fruit
bedtime between 7-8
Odd time they may need an extra bottle after going to bed but for the last few days they have gone straight thru the night. : )

 

Mine are 3 months.. But.. Naps vary Greatly.. So do bottle times.. Depending when they wake.. Normally between 2-3 hours

Wake 4-5am 2-3 oz sleep until 730 or 8
730 or 8 - 4 oz
9am play time..
10am bottle
1030 Nap
1pm 4oz Bottle
130 play
3pm sleep
4pm 4oz
5 Nap
7-730 bath time
730 4 oz bottle with cereal
8 Pm sleep hopefully!!!
Wake at 1-2am for bottle 2-3 oz
4-5 Wake for bottle 2-3 oz

 

Roughly:

6am bottle
7:30 nap
10am bottle
11am play
11:30 or 12 nap
1pm play
2pm bottle
2:30 play
3:30 nap
5:30 or 6 bottle
7 bedtime
2am bottle (slowly reducing)

 

The schedule was VERY flexible at 4mnths

wake 6-630am
eat
play
first nap 730am - 815am
eat
play
2nd nap 915am-10am
eat
play
3rd nap 11-12
eat
play
4th nap 1-2
eat
play
5th nap 3-4
eat
play
bedtime routine - bath, lotion, pjs
eat
bedtime depending on how naps went during the day and how fussy the babies were between 6-730

They usually didn't sleep for more then about 45min at a time, and couldn't be awake longer then about 60min, as they would get very fussy. Bedtime routing

 

7am up have a 5oz bottle
7-8:30 play on activity mat or sit in bumbos and "help" me with whatever I am doing
8:30 to 10 Nap
10:30 cereal and bottle
play
12 - 2 or 3 nap
bottle when they wake up
run errands or play or go for a walk
4 or 5 quick nap for an hour
bottle around 6
bath at 7
bottle at 8 and bed
occasionally someone is up at 4am for a bottle

 

Here is a rundown of 3 days:

1:30 am - Formula (160/200) & bed
6 am - Formula (160/200) & wake
8:30am-10am - nap
10 am -  Formula (160/200)
12pm-1:30pm - nap
2 pm - Formula (160/200)
3 pm - 4 pm - nap
6 pm - Formula (130/200) + 1 tbsp rice cereal each & bed for the night

1:30 am - Formula (160/200); Kayen  woke up first
6:30 am - Formula (160/200)
8 am - 8:30 am - nap
9 am -  Formula (160/200) & Leila 2 tbs rice cereal
10 am - 11 am - nap
12:30 pm - Formula (160/200)
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm - nap
4 pm - Formula (160/200) & Leila 3 tbs rice cereal
5:30 pm - 6 pm - nap
7 pm - Formula (160/200) & bed for the night

2 am - Formula (160/200); Kayen woke up first
6 am -  Formula (160/200); Leila woke up first
9 am - 10 am - nap
10 am - Formula (160/160)
11 am - 12:30 pm - nap ( stroller )
1 pm - Formula (130/160)
2 pm - 3:30 pm - nap
5 pm - Formula (160/200)
5:30 pm - 6 pm - nap
8 pm - Formula (110/200)

 

Ours dropped the nighttime bottle and started STTN when they were 4 months 1 week so I'll give their STTN schedule. (This is flexible, give or take 1/2 hr in either direction):

7 a.m. Wake, change, 9-oz bottle
7:30 Play
9 Nap
11:30 Wake, change, 9-oz bottle
12 Play
1:30 Nap
4: Wake, change, 9-oz bottle
4:30 Play
5:30-6:30 (or shorter) Nap
6:30 Play
7:45 Bottle, bath (two nights a week), rock/lullabies
8:30 Bed