I dont belive there is such a thing as a typical day with a baby but the best advice I was given by my dear friend, was to get Bellamie on a schedule. Now some people say never to wake a sleeping baby and I was also told it was ok if she had her days and night mixed up, ok with who exactly I wanted to know? Thus, I took my friends advice and woke Bellamie every two hours to eat during the day and let her sleep as long as she wanted at night. We have come along way since the nights of rotating shifts, as Bellamie slept on our chest, on the lazy boy in the living room and now get a fair amount of sleep, so I am totally on board with the schedule making. That said, a "typical" day for us goes a little something like this.
Wake up around 7:30 and have a bottle. Mommy plays with Bellamie a little too much, then is rushed to shower, while she sits in her bouncer. Then it is time to get ready and put Bell in front of the mirror in her bumboo seat which she loves! 9 am daddy gets home and mommy is starting to get a little frantic because instead of getting ready while Bell is distracted, I record her talking to herself in the mirror, (its just too cute!!) 10 am I leave for work and daddy is on his own! Bellamie tends to take longer naps during this time, and daddy reads her lots of books, (I know also too cute!) but sometimes I get a fussy baby report and often we chalk it up to her corrective shoes that weigh 1/10th of weight and keep her feet in the same position! (You would be grumpy too right?!) 3 pm mommy gets home and doesn't put Bell down till bedtime, what can I say I miss her during the day. We also do a bottle at this time, dinner at 5, watch a show or two while she naps on me, 6 pm another bottle, shoes off at 6:30 and it bath time!! This is most definitely her favorite time of the day! A little after 7 we are out of the bath and into jammies, then it is time for another quick snooze while daddy gets ready for bed and mommy watches a show. A little after 8 one last bottle, then shes down before 8:30 for the night and up anywhere from 3:30 am to 4:30 am a quick bottle and back down till 7:30... then we start all over again!
What is your typical day? Do you believe in a schedule or do you let your little ones call the shots? Would you wake a sleeping baby?
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