Compiling Data: Please post your 8 mo 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 8 mo. olds schedules look like/looked like (roughly) Thank you!!!

example:

7:00 wake/bottle or bf
8:00 cereal
9:00 nap
12:00 bottle
1:00 nap
3:00 wake
3:30 solids


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

 

Our schedule looks something like this:

8:30 wake up, drink bottle(BM), cereal, and fruit
10:30 nap for 2 hours
12:30 wake up, drink bottle(BM), cereal, and veg
2:30 nap for 2.5 hours
5:00 wake up, drink bottle(BM), fruit,veg,meat
8:30 bottle(BM), bedtime

Hope that helps
Cari

 

7 bottle
8 solids
9-11 nap
11 bottle
12 solids
2 bottle
2-4 nap
4 snack bottle
5:30 solids
7:30 bath, bottle, bed

 

Our feedings and bedtime are the only things 'scheduled' right now:

7:00 Bottle
8:00 Solids
9:00 Nap (sleep diff. lenths, so from first nap on - 2 hrs of awake time for each) Ugh!
11:00 Bottle
1:00 Solids
3:00 Bottle
5-5:30 Solids
6:30-7 Bottle & bed

 

6:30 bottle
7:30 breakfast (they won't cereal anymore, so cheerios, pancake, etc)
8 or 8:30 to 9:30 or 10
10:30 bottle
sometimes a nap around 12, otherwise
12:30 lunch
2:30 bottle
3 or 3:30 nap to 4 or 4:30
5 supper
6:30 bath, bottle bed

 

7-8 am:bottle
between 9-10 cereal and fruit
between 10-11 nap for about 45 mins
12:30 bottle
2:00 dinner jar and vegetable jar shared
2:30 nap for about an hour
3:30 bottle
6:30 cereal and fruit
7:00 bath
7:30 bottle
8:00 BED!!

 

4.30 am nurse and go back to sleep (fingers crossed)
6.00 am wake
7.30 am nurse
8.00 am nap (30 mins to 1 1/2 hours)
9.30 am nurse
11.00 am nap (30 mins)
12.30 pm nurse
1.00 pm solids (shared 4 cubes of veggies which they usually don't finish)
2.00 pm nap (30 mins to 2 hours)
4.00 pm nurse
4.30 pm solids (shared 3 cubes of fruit usually with homemade cereal)
6.30 pm nurse to sleep

usually they also wake to feed at roughly 10.30 pm, 1.00 am and 4.30 am (each)

 

6:30 - 7 : wake up and bottle
8 - 8:30 : cereal and one jar fruit shared
9 - 9:30 : down for nap
10:30 - 11: up and bottle
Noon: one jar veggie each
1 - 1:30 : down for nap
3 - 3:30 : up and bottle
5:30: dinner (usually one dinner, one veggie and one fruit split - we use Earth's Best food and LOVE them!)
6:30: start nighttime routine, bath, bottle, bed....I start with whoever is crankiest and have dh entertain the other until her sister is asleep and then I start her bath. They are usually both asleep by 7:30.
Middle of the night: usually one or the other will wake up once during the night (between 3 - 5). I try the paci thing first and if that doesn't work, I'll give a bottle. Then that baby is usally last to get up and sometimes won't get a morning bottle and will go straight to breakfast.
Hope that helps!

 

6:00-7:00 Bottle
8:00 Cereal
9:00 Nap (30 min. to an hour)
10:00 Bottle, Fruit (shared)
12:00 Nap (sometimes 30 min. sometimes 2.5 hours!!)
3:00 Bottle
5:00 Veggie (shared)- sometimes a 30 minute nap if 2nd nap was short
6:00 Bath (shared LOL)
7:00 Bottle and Nite Nite!!

 

LOOKIN' GOOD!! Keep em' coming!!

 

Here is our schedule:

7am- Wake bottle and cereal.

9am- Nap (1-2 hours)

11am -bottle and two jars of baby food and fruit

1-2.30pm - nap

3/3.30- bottle

5pm - nap if fussy

5.30pm -up

6/6.30pm - two big bottles and 2 baby jars

7/7.30pm- bed

 

6:30-8am wake and bottle
8-9am cereal, fruit, yogurt
10am nap for 1.5 to 2 hours
12 bottle
12:30 cereal, veggies
1:30-2pm nap for 1.5 to 2 hours
4pm bottle
5pm cereal, veggie, fruit
7pm bottle
7:30-8pm bedtime

We take a bath every other day in the morning.

Both babies still wake between 3 and 5 for a small bottle - we try soothing, rocking but so far it just prolongs the inevitable. We can't justify CIO when they're sick

 

6:00-6:30 Wake Up, Nurse
7:00 Fruit & Cereal
9-11 Nap
11:00 Nurse
12:00 Meat & Veggies
1-3 Nap
3:00 Nurse
5:30 Nurse
6:00 Fruit, Cereal & Yogurt
6:30 Bath, Story
7:00 Sleep

They still wake up 1-2 times in the night to nurse, sometimes at midnight (though this is getting rarer) and again around 3:00.

Their naps aren't always 2 hours long - on average they nap a total of about 3 hours a day.

 

7am wake/diaper change
7:15 6 oz bottle
7:45-9:00 play/get dressed
9-10:30ish nap
11 7 oz bottle
11:15 fruit/oatmeal
11:30-1pm play
1-2:30ish nap
3 7 oz bottle
3:30 snack (puffs/water in a sippy)
3:45-6 play/short nap if cranky
6-6:30 bath/jammies
6:30 6 oz bottle
6:45 veggie/oatmeal
7 baby einstein
7:30 bed

 

Schedule:
7:00am or so wake
7:30am 8 oz. bottle
8:30am fruit and cereal
9:30-11:00 nap
11:30am veggie, yogurt, crackers or starting finger food
1:00pm 8 oz. bottle
1:30-3:30 nap
5:15 or so baby food meal, puffs, crackers
7:15ish 8 oz. bottle
8:00 pm bed

 

7am wake/bottle
830 fruit and cereal
930 nap
11 bottle
12 fruit and veggie
1230 nap
2 snack, usually puffs
3 bottle
330 nap
5 fruit, veggie, cereal
530 bath
7 bottle/bed

I pick up my older kids from school at 2, which is why we are still on a 3 nap schedule. The middle nap is a very short one. They are starting to be able to eat some table foods, soft pasta, very cooked fruits, and veggies.

 

We finally have a real schedule to post, yeah!!!


8:00am Wake
Eat(8oz)Bottle
9:00am Cereal&Fruit
10:00am Nap
12:00 Wake
Eat(8oz) Bottle
1:00pm Fruit&Veggie
3:00pm Nap
5:00pm Wake
Eat(8oz)Bottle
7:00pm Cereal & Veggie
Bath
8:00pm Bottle(8oz)& Bed

 

6:30 - wake, nurse
8:00 - oatmeal, fruit
8:30/9 - nap with 4oz bottle. Sometimes they finish, sometimes they don't.
12:00 - nurse
12:30 - veggie
1:00/1:30 - nap with 4oz bottle. Sometimes they finish, sometimes they don't.
3:30/4 - bottle (4-6oz)
5:30 - dinner : veggie, rice cereal, fruit and if request 2oz bottle
7:30 - nurse, bed

 

6:30 - wake up/nurse
8:00 - yogurt & fruit snack
8:45 - nurse/nap
10:00 - wake up
11:00 - grain meal with fruit & veg
12:45 - nurse/nap
2:30 - wake up
3:00 - yogurt & tofu meal with fruit & veg
4:30 - protein snack (chicken or cheese) with fruit
5:45 - nurse
6:00 - sleep

they sleep through the night now

 

At almost 8 months this is what we do....

Between 6.30 and 7.30 am - Bottle (when they wake!)
8am - Breakfast (cereal)
9.15 am Sleep 1 (for anywhere from 30 mins to 90 mins - love it when they BOTH sleep longer!)
11am Bottle
11.45 Lunch (veggies)
12.15 Sleep 2 (for anywhere from 30 mins to 90 mins)
3pm - Bottle
4.30 pm Sleep 3 (only 30 minutes)
5.30pm - Dinner
6.30pm - Bottle
7pm - Bed
(Between 11pm and 1am Charlie will wake for a bottle. Lucy, the little champion, sleeps through)

 

Here's ours:

0615ish wake up, if a weekday, get dressed and head to daycare
0715ish 6 oz bottle
0900-1015 nap
1030 one jar each mixed oatmeal/fruit
1130 6oz bottle
1300-1500 nap
1515 6 oz bottle
...sometimes a little water and cheerio snack...
1800 4 oz EBM bottle
1830 shared one meat/veggie jar, oatmeal mixed with one jar fruit
1845 bath (every other day), or sponge bath and pjs
1915 7 oz bottle and bed

They wake a few times during the night, although Ronan sleeps through sometimes. We do the paci thing until about 0300 with Declan, then he gets a 6oz bottle. Ronan often will wake around 0500 briefly, and will get a small bottle.

 

here's our schedule:
6 wake
7 bottle
8 breakfast- stage 2 fruit with cereal
830 nap
11 bottle
12 lunch- stage 2 meat, stage 2 veggie and stage 2 fruit split between them
1230 nap
3 bottle
5 dinner- 2 stage 2 veggies and 2 stage 2 fruits split between them
6-630 bath- bottle then bed.

 

Here is where we are at:

630 wake-up (this is an average, sometimes 615, sometimes 7, usually around 630)
6:45 Nurse
7:45 Breakfast (we do Cheerios, toast, oatmeal, Stage 2 fruits, steamed fruits, YoBaby, etc.)
9:00 Nap (put them down around 9, sometimes they take 15 minutes or so to fall asleep)(usually sleep about an hour and 15 minutes, sometimes more)
10:45 Nurse
12:00 Lunch (cheese, egg yolk, toast, steamed veggies, Stage 2 veggies and a meat, fruit, yogurt, etc)
1:00 Nap (maybe, sometimes they catnap in the car and that's thier nap, or if morning nap was long, they take a longer later nap)
2:45 Nurse
3:30ish Snack (Puffs, Zwieback, juice, etc)
4:00ish Nap
5:15 Dinner (Stage 2 Dinner, steamed veggies, pureed stuff we eat, etc., and Stage 2 dessert (they love Dutch Apple)
6:15 Tubtime
Nurse and off to bed!

Still no set schedule for naps and things - sometimes 3 shorter naps a day, sometimes 2 longer ones. Sometimes they think it's fun to wake at 5am and stand in their crib and scream at me. I refuse to get them up before 6 so if they do this and can't fall back asleep then they scream for an hour (after I've gone in a few times to pat and soothe). They still wake once a night to nurse but I am debating CIO to end that. They have slept through the night before so Iknow they can do it, and I know the nighttime feeding is no longer a necessity. We'll see, I just keep hoping they phase it out themselves.
They can both army crawl, stand in thier cribs, they pull up on everything, Chase is starting to cruise on the furniture, and they are turning into little daredevils!

 

Here is ours. I have twin boys that were born at 32 weeks that are just about to turn 9 mo and 7 mo adjusted.

7-wake up
7:30 bottle 8oz
8:15 solids (1 jar stage 2 fruit mixed with cereal each)
9:15 nap (1.5-2 hours)
11:15 bottle -4-6 ozs.
12 solids (1.5 jars stage 2 veggies and finger foods each)
1:30 nap (1.5-2 hours)
3:30 bottle 6 oz
4:30 solids (meat, veggies, stage 2 up to 2 jars each and finger food)
6 tubby
6:30 bottle (4-8 ozs), books, bed by 7


They just started sleeping through the night and sometimes they wake at 5am and babble and go back to sleep and sometimes they sleep until 6:30 or 7a.


Rachel

 

7:00 Bottle
8:00 Solids Cereal & Fruit
9:00 Nap (depends but awake around 2 hours)
11:00 Bottle
12:00 Solids Meat, Veggie, Fruit or yogurt
3:00 Bottle
5-5:30 Solids Meat, Veggie, Fruit or yogurt
6:30-7 Bottle & bed (bath time)

 

Here's are schedule:

8 am: Wake and 7oz bottle

9 am: Nap for Hour and half

10:30-11 am: Cereal w/fruit and cookie

12-12:30 pm: 6oz bottle

12:30 pm: Nap 2 hours

2:30- 3 pm: Veggies and yougart or fruit

4:40-5 pm: 6 oz bottle

5 pm: Nap 45 mins

6:30-7 pm: Veggies w/meat, fruit, cookie/puffs

8 pm: Bath

8:30-9 pm: 7oz bottle and bed.

Both girls sleep through the night so there are no night feedings...thank god!!!!

 

6:30 a.m. wake up
7:00 a.m. breakfast -oatmeal or yogurt w/ fruit and bottle
7:30 - 8:30/8:45ish - playtime
8:30-10:00 ish - naps
10:00-11:00 playtime
11:00 a.m. lunch - veggie, fruit and bottle
11:30-12:30/12:45 ish - playtime
12:30 - 2:30 nap
2:30-3:00 playtime
3:00 bottle
3:30-6:30 waketime playtime (a.k.a fussy time)!
6:30 dinner - meat, veggie, fruit and bottle (my boys eat a lot)!
7:00 bath
7:30 bed

 

Schedule A (if they awaken happy between 6 am and 7)
Somewhere between 5 and 6 am, nurse
Play and try not to wake older child!
8:00 quick nursing and breakfast (baby cereal w/ formula mixed in)
9:00-11:00 nap
11:00 nurse
11:30 lunch (veggies and/or fruits)
12:00-2:00 do something fun with babies and older child
2:00-3/4:00 nap
3~4 nursing
4:30 dinner (veggies and/or fruits)
4:30~6:30 leave house, random nursings
6:30 bottle (they take somewhere between 2 oz and 6 oz)

Schedule B (if they wake up cranky around 6 am)
6-7 am and wake up cranky, put back in crib
Mom goes back to bed and wakes up when they wake up again, usually around 8:30 (love it!)
Schedule is as before, but the times all shift
First nap is usually between 11:00 and noon, depending on what's going on that day
Afternoon nap is usually around 3

P.S. This is all a loose schedule based on their moods and the needs of the day.

 

Here's our routine at 8.5 months (on a good day)

6:30 Wake
7:00 Bottle (8 oz.)
8:45 Nap (1 hr 20 min on a lucky day, with Evan often needing to be soothed back to sleep after 30 minutes)
10:30 "Brunch" - oatmeal with blueberries OR whole grain waffle (cut up as finger food with bits of banana), plus natural yogurt with peaches and/or mango puree, usually some other fruit like prunes with bananas, water in sippies
11:00 Get dressed, take a walk
12:30 Bottle (8 oz.)
1:30ish Nap (Anywhere from 30 minutes on a bad day to 1.5 or 2 hours on a lucky day)
3:30 Bottle (8 oz.)
5:00 "Dinner" - usually 6-7 cubes of veggies divided by two babies plus finger food on their tray: mini pasta, grated cheese, egg yoke scramble, peas, etc., sippies of water
6:00 Bath, pajamas, snuggle, "quiet play" (ha ha)
6:30 Bottle, Bed

Both babies used to sleep 11 to 12 hours at night but over the last several months James, our formerly excellent sleeper, has developed a horrible night waking problem...I have been up since 4 a.m. this morning!!

 

6:00 wake/bottle
7:30-8:30 katnap (only when needed)
8:30 breakfast cereal/fruit
10:00 bottle
10:30 nap (1.5 to 2 hours)
12:00 or 12:30 lunch (veggie/fruit)
2:00 bottle
2:30 nap (1.5 to 2 hours)
5:30 dinner veggie/grain/meat
6:30 bath
7:00 bottle and bed

 

This is during the week...they usually sleep until about 6 on the weekends.

5:15 wake up/5-6 oz bottle
5:45 cereal/fruit
9:00 nap
10:00 8oz bottle
12:00 cereal/veggie/fruit/finger snacks (cheerios/puffs/toast)
1:00 nap
2:00 8 oz bottle
4:30 short nap
5:45 6-8 oz bottle
6:30 dinner (cereal/meat/veggie combo/yogurt/finger snacks)
7:00 bath
7:30 bedtime

 

6am wake up and play in crib with sister!!!
7am get out of bed, have 7oz bottle, and then play
8-10am (ish) nap
10-11am play
11am cereal and fruit or veggie
12pm 6-7oz bottle
12:30-2:30 (ish) nap
2:30-4 play
4pm 6-7oz bottle
4:30-5:30 (ish) nap
5:30-7 play
7pm cereal and fruit or veggie
7:30pm bath every other night (on off nights, we play quietly, read books, listen to music)
8 pm 6-7oz bottle, and bed

 

This has been their schedule since about 6 months, minus the 3 solid meals (it was only one solid meal for breakfast until about 7 mo)

6:30-7 a.m. Wake, feed 8-10 oz bottle

8 a.m. Breakfast - Earth's best Stage 2 food with fruit and grain

8:30-9:30 Play

9:30 First nap (usually 1-1.5 hr)

11:00 a.m. Wake from nap, feed 8 oz bottle

11:30 - 12:30 Play

12:30 Lunch- Earth's best stage 2 food with meat and veggie

1sh Second nap (usually 2 hrs)

3:00 p.m. Wake from nap, feed 8 oz bottle

3:00 - 5:00 Play

5:30 p.m. Dinner - Earth's best stage 2 food with meat and veggie

6:00 p.m. Bath

6:30 p.m. Feed 8 oz Bottle and bed

 

We do everything on demand, but the demands are pretty predictable by now. Here's an average day for us. It's all give or take (nap length varies, though they always need 3 naps/day; anytime they want a snack at mom's milk bar or a bite of something I'm eating they can have it), but this is pretty much what most days are like:

7 - wake up, get dressed, play
8 - nurse
8:30 - nap
9:30 - wake, nurse, play and/or go running in jogging stroller
11:30 - nap
12:30 - wake, nurse, play
sometime before next nap - solids
2 - nurse, nap
3:30 - wake, nurse, play
4:30ish - solids
5/5:30ish - nurse
6 - baths, last feeding (nurse and/or bottles)
7 - bedtime

Don't ask about nights, though! They're up anywhere from 1-3x/night, and times vary a lot.

 

7 AM Wake (ok, honestly, they wake before this but I do not go in until 7 am)
730 7 oz bottle
915 Nap (down for an hour or sometimes I get an 1 hour and 20 minutes!!)
1130 Sippy with water and splash of juice, sometimes they have a little formula
1230 Split about 10 oz of baby food/yogurt...very random on what it might be to eat!
115 Nap (1 hour up to 2 hours, if I am really lucky)
330 7 oz bottle
530 Each have 2 jars of baby food, Stage 2
630 Baby Einstein
700 Bathtime
720 8 oz bottle
730 Bed


***We are just trying Stage 3...my boys are HIGHLY dramatic about trying teeny bites of food.