

Cooking has never been my favorite and having a little nugget under my feet doesn't really make me any more enthused about it lol.ĥ:30 PM - Brian gets home and we eat dinner. I'll either connect with Brian and tell him to get Chick-fil-A or something or I'll start cooking. If it happens, this nap will also be 1-1.5 hours.Ĥ:30 PM - When she wakes up we do a little more playing together and then it's time for me to start thinking about dinner. I think it's just the phase while transitioning to one nap a day. It can be a big struggle to get her to go down (even though I can tell she's so tired!) and sometimes it just doesn't happen, while other days it is not problem at all. This nap has given me the most trouble over the last several months. Lately she's also been liking to have an afternoon snack so she'll have some Cheerio's, Goldfish, or Raisins and her milk cup at some point in the afternoon.ģ PM - Nap time again. Or if we didn't venture out in the morning we'll go out. For lunches she'll have some baby food, Goldfish, peanut butter crackers, and little of whatever I'm eating for lunch that day.ġ2:30 - 3 PM - Play time. After her nap we will go to the potty if her diaper is dry ( read more on that here) but if she's already gone we'll change and get her lunch ready. Right now she still gets a bottle before her nap and will sleep 1 - 1.5 hours. But I would say the majority is at 10:30, 3 hours after waking up. We will start to get ready for a nap if she's seeming ready, some days she's ready at 9:30 others it's not til noon. Most days I like to get out of the house at least once so depending on how the morning is going we'll go on a walk, to the mall, or to my parents' house during this time frame.ġ0:30 AM - Nap time. which has been so helpful in navigating her ever changing "routine".Ĩ:30 - 10:30 AM - Play time or outing time. I'm so thankful I'm able to be at home with her because it's allowed me to feel such a deep connection with her, like I can really read her and know when she's tired, hungry, etc.

Give yourself and your baby a ton of grace and work through changes together.

I believe there is some truth to this but being too stringent is just going to stress everyone out. I read so much when I was pregnant and shortly after Avery was born about the importance of routines and how babies thrive off routines. My number one tip for all moms is to be flexible. I'm going to share what I would call our ideal schedule for a day, but again it's slightly different every day lately and also depending on what activities we have planned for the day. Naps are a little more sporadic and less set in stone than they were just a month ago. I'll start by saying that things are ever changing with a little tot so our daily schedule is actually in a bit of a transformation as we speak.
