Babywise With a Twelve Week Old
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After several weeks of no change, this is a big one! The book suggests that many babies are ready for 12 hours of sleep without waking to eat by 12 weeks old.
We went “by the book
I don’t have sleep notes for any baby because once that dream feed was gone none of them looked back! It was 12 hour nights from then on out until about age 2 when we pushed bedtime til more like 7:30/7:45.
Here is what the schedule looked like (more or less) for all of them:
7:00 – baby wakes up (or you wake them), feed, then wake time
8:15-10:00 – nap
10:00 – baby wakes (or you wake them), feed, then wake time
11:15-1:00 – nap
1:00 – baby wakes (or you wake them), feed, then wake time
2:15-4:00 – nap
4:00 – baby wakes (or you wake them), feed, then wake time
evening is random for us maybe fussy, maybe happy, maybe a cat nap, maybe awake the whole time. By 6:30 usually starting the bedtime routine bath/lotion/sound machine/story/etc
7:00 – feed then straight to bed
And then they sleep 12 hours!
Seriously after 1 baby I completely understood people saying I was lucky. After 2 babies that irked me a little bit because I had tried really hard for my good sleepers, but I figured it could still be luck.
After our third baby sleeping 12 hours at 12 weeks to the day just like the other two did….I don’t think it’s luck.
I think it’s Babywise
No crying it out, no habits to break, no waking in the middle of the night for years. I just can’t recommend it enough.
Thanks for anyone who cared to follow along, I hope this helped anyone out there looking for a method for baby sleep!
To find a link to each week go to this post.
