Just want to share something with all
If you have succeeded on getting your baby on a sleeping schedule, that's great. If not, dun be too worry.
All humans are born with a instinctive schedule for rest and awake, called the circadian clock. Just like when they are born, they instinctively know to cry for attention/ look for your nipple for BF. As our little ones develop in a dark env inside our womb and feeds through the placenta every now and then, they are unable to tell between night and day or when to do what. As they grow in mths and years, they will learn abt day and night and this circadian clock takes over.
I did not do much to schedule my little one. She is now 3.5 mths old and she sleeps, eats and plays to her own schedule.
Like everyone, mine was asleep most of the time and feeds every 3-4hrs, incl. night.
From 2nd mth, i made it a point to teach her the differences between day and night. Noisier, brighter environment filled with more activities in the day while night is always peaceful, quiet and less play. She will sleep at 10pm and feeds 2x at night then the next is 8/9am. She will have short naps 30mins in the day (Necessary for rest after so much learning stimulus)
From 2.5mths onwards, she started slumbering into 5hrs sleep at 9.30pm and wakes up for 1 night feed at 4-5am, and wakes up at 7-8am.
The timing is good for us since we want to have some quality time with her after work and she will wake up to us before we leave for work.
If you have succeeded on getting your baby on a sleeping schedule, that's great. If not, dun be too worry.
All humans are born with a instinctive schedule for rest and awake, called the circadian clock. Just like when they are born, they instinctively know to cry for attention/ look for your nipple for BF. As our little ones develop in a dark env inside our womb and feeds through the placenta every now and then, they are unable to tell between night and day or when to do what. As they grow in mths and years, they will learn abt day and night and this circadian clock takes over.
I did not do much to schedule my little one. She is now 3.5 mths old and she sleeps, eats and plays to her own schedule.
Like everyone, mine was asleep most of the time and feeds every 3-4hrs, incl. night.
From 2nd mth, i made it a point to teach her the differences between day and night. Noisier, brighter environment filled with more activities in the day while night is always peaceful, quiet and less play. She will sleep at 10pm and feeds 2x at night then the next is 8/9am. She will have short naps 30mins in the day (Necessary for rest after so much learning stimulus)
From 2.5mths onwards, she started slumbering into 5hrs sleep at 9.30pm and wakes up for 1 night feed at 4-5am, and wakes up at 7-8am.
The timing is good for us since we want to have some quality time with her after work and she will wake up to us before we leave for work.