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did you get your baby on a sleep schedule? Jared likes to stay up to 12:30-1:00 and sleep until 10:30. Just last night he slept from 8:45-6:30, which I'd prefer. How do you keep that schodule going?

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You are soooo lucky!!!

Caiden didn't sleep through the night until he was 10 months old! Seriously!!!

He had me up every 1.5-3 hours every night. Plus I was working FT too. He was BF so I don't know if that's why, but boy talk about no sleep!

I just couldn't get him to sleep. He would cry soooo hard.

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We used the book Becoming Baby wise.

Jack was on a 9pm wake at 3 for a bottle and a change then go back down till 9am... but I just needed to switch it up a bit because of having to take him to the gym with me and the class I love is at 8:30am

So right now he is getting his last bottle at 7:00 getting a change and into Pj's and by 7:30 he is lying in bed watching his aquarium and within minutes in asleep... then he gets up at 2:00am (I tried to follow the sleep wisperer book and if you wake them an hour earlier it resets their clock.. well I guess he still needs that bottle... because all it did was make him wake up at 2am instead of 3am) and then he goes back to bed till 6:30am get a change, bottle and clothes then we play in the Einstein Gym from 7am-8am then we leave for the gym at 8 (he naps there for an 1hour and 1/2)
then it's every 4 hours for a bottle, then activity then 40 minute nap and in the early evening he takes and 1 hour and 1/2 nap around dinner time....

My only problem is that if my husband gets to call me he calls after 9pm so I stay up waiting because we rarely get to talk so I'm pretty wound up by the night and have trouble falling asleep...

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Bryan sleeps from 11-7 and the naps again until about 9:30--I give him a bath every night at 9 ;30 and the he nurses and falls asleep- its been working so far

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Kevin did a lot of the scheduling himself. I think the key to a good schedule is routine. He seems to like a routine. Weekends when we are running around and stuff he is always all thrown off. But weekdays - I try to do the same things at the same times as much as possible when I work from home or an off(hard since I am not with him 3 days of the week) but when I am I try to follow a routine. Works well for him and me.

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I hope when we have another baby he/she likes to sleep!!!

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Try reading the Contented Little Baby Book..it shows you how to get your baby on a routine of waking at 7am and going to bed early.

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Anthony put himself into a schedule believe it or not...

I wish that was still the case!! He is 2 1/2 and goes to bed/ wakes up at different times every day