routine for 8 month olds

I feel like they always are napping.... I dont know how to keep them up longer during the day....they get so cranky and scream that I put them down for a nap....I try to have them once in the am and once in the afternoon.....they arent sleeping threw the night . (only once in awhile)

 

Sounds as though they may be getting too much sleep during the day. How much are they sleeping during the day? Are they still feeding at night? I would really try to work on shortening their daytime sleep so they sleep more at night and hopefully sttn.

 

How long are they staying up during the day? How many meals do they have?

At 8 months mine still had three naps, every 2.5 hours for how long they wanted, and we switched them to two at 8.5 months... one at 9.30am and the other at 2pm, with bedtime at 7pm... I've found that mine don't sleep as well if they don't sleep enough during the day. They have three meals a day now also, and if I skip one they definitely get hungry and might wake up starving at 5am.

 

Mine aren’t 8 m YET but I thought I would share any ways… wake at 6 for bottle, 7:30 cereal and fruit, 7:50-8:00 nap (45min-1.5 hr) 10 am bottle, 11am nap (45 min- 1.5 hr) lunch when wake from nap, bottle at 2:00 nap at 3:00 (45min- 1.5hr) bath at 5:30 bottle at 6:00 in bed by 6:45 sttn until 6am

3 naps 8am, 11am and 3pm and they sleep about 11 hrs at night

 

I dont know if this matters or not but they are 8 months (6 months adjusted) they take about 1hour nap or more in am and 1 hour or less in afternoon.....how do you keep them up longer ....My DD when she is tired will scream bloody murder....











QUOTE(e mauro @ Nov 28 2008, 12:56 PM) [snapback]1089224[/snapback]
Mine aren’t 8 m YET but I thought I would share any ways… wake at 6 for bottle, 7:30 cereal and fruit, 7:50-8:00 nap (45min-1.5 hr) 10 am bottle, 11am nap (45 min- 1.5 hr) lunch when wake from nap, bottle at 2:00 nap at 3:00 (45min- 1.5hr) bath at 5:30 bottle at 6:00 in bed by 6:45 sttn until 6am

3 naps 8am, 11am and 3pm and they sleep about 11 hrs at night

 

My boys wake at
6am for bottle,
solids at 7am,
nap at 8am-10am,
bottle at 10am,
solids at 11:30,
nap at 12:30 or 1pm,
bottle when they wake from afternoon nap usually 2:30 or 3pm,
solids at 5pm,
bath at 6pm,
bottle at 6:15 or 6:30,
bed by 7pm

They sleep from 6:30 or 7pm till 6am. Their morning naps are the best and usually last at least 2 hours.....they afternoon nap varies a lot, but usually about 1.5 hours.

Hope this helps!

 

QUOTE(Brownie110 @ Nov 29 2008, 09:09 PM) [snapback]1090426[/snapback]
I dont know if this matters or not but they are 8 months (6 months adjusted) they take about 1hour nap or more in am and 1 hour or less in afternoon.....how do you keep them up longer ....My DD when she is tired will scream bloody murder....


Why do you want them up longer? Mine had 3 naps until 8.5 months, and couldn't stay up longer than 2.5 hours before that... . At 6 months mine were sleeping 4 to 5 hours during the day, and needed a nap every 2 hours. Just listen to them, put them down when they're tired, eventually they'll be able to stay up longer.

Seems to me that if anything they're not napping enough during the day.

 

Babies that sleep well during the day usually sleep well at night. Some days my 9 month olds take 2 naps, sometimes they take 3. Just depends on the day and what we did etc.

They still wake up at night. DD usually 1x, and DS can wake up multiple times.

Our normal schedule:
7-8am wake up & milk
9ish solids
10ish milk & nap
12ish wake up milk & solids
2pm milk & nap
3-4 wake up
5-6 dinner (optional 3rd nap)
bed between 830-930

Are they sick? are they teething? are they hungry or thirsty?