is not possible. Or at least it wasn't for me. I read the books, blogs, and websites. I laid out sample schedules to follow each day. I drove myself crazy writing everything down from the minute she woke to the minute she went to bed. What a waste of time. Babies have a natural clock inside of them (we all do). It takes the 4th trimester (the first three months) for them to work it out.
Viv naturally started going from 5-7 naps a day to three (sometimes four) all on her own. It seemed like this happened just as she hit four months. Since she doesn't wake up at the exact same time every day, her schedule isn't perfect, but is pretty predictable.
A good day looks like this:
7am- wakes up and nurses
8:30-nap
10-nurse
11-nap
1- nurse and rice cereal
2-nap
4-5-wakes and nurses
6:30-7- get ready for bed and nurse
This schedule is very loose and always depends when she wakes up in the morning and how long her naps are. In between sleeping and eating we do a lot of playing!! Viv loves the jumperoo, anything that lights up and sings, reading books, and practicing her crawling. Yes, crawling...we will leave that for another blog entry. It is still difficult to make plans but that is getting easier. We always bank on being home in the evenings now so we can get her to bed early. 7pm-7am is another blog entry as well....
So glad she is sleeping better...4 months is awesome...they just get better and better from here!
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