How Do I Put My 10 Week Old Baby on a Schedule?

I had my baby on a schedule by week 2, with the help of the Baby Whisperer. I highly recommend her book. It's an easy schedule, called the EASY schedule, which stands for Eat, Activity, Sleep, You. It's an easy book to read, I read it in an afternoon while I held my newborn and she slept. My daughter is now 4 and still fairly regimented, which I think is probably from her dad's genes, because he's very schedule oriented too.

I agree too young.....enjoy the newborn phase, it doesn't last long!! :)

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get the book Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Dr. Weisbluth. It is very detailed and we call it the Bible (haha) in our house because it created a very wonderful sleeper in my son. It breaks everything down by age so that you know what you can and can't do to influence sleep in different stages of your baby's/child's life as well as biologically what their body needs in terms of sleep times, etc. Its a FANTASTIC book.

At 10 weeks, he is entering an age that you can begin to get him on a schedule. Please do not believe you cannot or should not do anything about getting him on a schedule that suits him and your family.

It is SO possible to have an infant on a schedule. I had mine on one the day we got them home (we adopted while they were infants). They both were sleeping through the night by 6 weeks old. I used alot of guidelines from the book Babywise. I didn't agree with everything they said but used the basic idea of the book. Scheduling sleep, eating and wake time. It works. Sounds like Sara's "The Baby Whisper" is the same kind of concept. I think having a predictable time for everything helps make a baby feel secure knowing and expecting what is happening instead of just waking up hungry. Yes, waking them up to feed them is part of having a schedule that can unnerve some moms ;) Bottom line it IS possible with some planning and adjustment time. Something as easy as planning an extra feeding during the day to increase the amount needed can give you some rest during the night for both of you.
Good luck,
C.

Read The Baby Whisperer. I had my baby on a schedule by 5 weeks, sleeping 7-8 hours a night. He was on an Eat, play, sleep schedule. It wasn't set around specific times (although now at 6 months, we're starting to get on a specific time schedule give or take an hour). It's just learning to go off of you baby's cues in a "scheduled" or "organized" type way. Also, make sure at night that when he wakes, you keep the room dark, feed/change/whatever he needs, and instantly start to put him back to sleep. Oh and have a seperate bed time and wake up routine. This helped my son a lot with differentiating between night and day. It takes a little while for them to get it, but I think simply even just doing the EASY technique the baby whisperer presents, they start to figure out that they can "play" in the day, but at night after they eat, they are expected to go back to sleep.

You don't. Sorry!

Yes, too young. My kids got their nights and days mixed up too. It will pass. Try to rest and get some help. I had gassy babies too! I feel your pain

I had the same issue with my son with sleep and also gassy. A formula change and also I did a bath routine everynight verses bathing in the morning. It served two purposes, kept them awake for a while at night and also relaxed them for better sleep. By 6 weeks my babies did 11-5 or 6 which to me was like sleeping through the night lol!! Good luck I know how you feel I was a walking zombie for a while.

I have 5 kids and I was able to put them on a schedule. I nursed them a lot during the day so they'd sleep better at night. I put them to bed around the time I go to bed so that I'd get more sleep at night. Not a lot of info but I hope it helps some...

At this point I had been putting my sons to bed at the same time each night and letting fuss a bit if needed to help them learn to sleep for a while. They were both sleeping through the night by this point because of it, and going to sleep on their own. I would let them fuss for up to 5 minutes before going in, and they almost never made it a full 5 before self soothing and falling asleep.

as for day and night being mixed up, that is normal, just keep working with him, feeding him often during the day and cutting back on feedings at night.

I did what's called sleep training. I have two kids 15 months and 4 months. Both i started sleep training at 3 months. My first son took to it just fine. I know this may sound mean to some parents but this is just how I did it and drs said it was fine. Once I knew that both boys were fed, changed and burped I would lay them down for their naps or bed time. Both cried and I let them cry for about 20 minutes before I walk in and try to calm them by giving a binkie. I know some people don't use them. Most of the time kids are very tired and get really cranky and don't want to sleep. Sometimes you have to let them cry it out. Now both my kids go down for naps at the same time. Bed times are a little different but pretty close and both my kids sleep through the night. :)

For my 2 girls, now 8 & 5, my wife & I did not really follow a schedule. However, our weapon of choice for sleeping was a lullaby CD that I bought when my 8 yr old was born. We would play the CD for night time sleeping, & for daytime naps. The 5yr old will still fall asleep during the day if we play the CD at times when she is tired & grumpy & needs to rest. We also still play the CD every night at bedtime, which we try to keep between 8:30 & 9:00pm, since they are both school age now. However, they also have the (sometimes amusing) ability to sleep on their own, without the music, now that they are older.

I think he's getting you on his schedule! LOL

Try to limit a bit how long he sleeps during his daytime stretches of sleep.

Keep in mind that if you start a schedule, than you are bound to it too....which can sometimes be more stress than just going with his lead....no dinners out, visiting friends, traveling, etc....without the schedule always in the back of your mind!

:)

He's going to change his own "personal" schedule so much and so fast there's not really a point. Infants are sleep all day, up at night, then they're sleeping more at night but fussing in the day, then they won't nap at the times we'd prefer....etc. etc. Trying to schedule him to your wants will only frustrate you especially at his age -- he's pretty much a newborn; he has no sense yet of night or day or time and will sleep when he is ready and where he is most comfortable, even if that means someone's rocking him.

When he's older, consider thinking of having a "routine," where you and he together do things in a certain pattern each day and night, rather than a "schedule." The term "schedule" unfortunately suggests "If the child isn't eating at 5:00 and asleep at 7:00, we've messed up the entire day." I've truly seen parents make themselves crazy by being certain they must "schedule" their infants, only to be angry and upset when their infant was changing by the week and couldn't "stick to the schedule."