hi guys today I'm going to be sharing with you Isabella's five month old
routine and schedule and I thought I would show you her now because she's
about to have her bottle so she's going to be down here on my lap and I thought
I'd sneak her into this video quickly she is very active at the moment she
just wants to get up and go so I'm hoping she'll stay nice and quiet for me
to film this video and it's one of the things that I Google the most baby's routines
and schedules and I think it's kind of every parent's desperate attempt
to get some sort of life back when your baby is in the schedule or a routine it
kind of makes life a little bit easier I'm all for routine and schedule but I
have to admit I've been a little bit more relaxed with Isabella than I was
with James and it kind of works out well for our family I think if I were in a
strict routine with her things would not go down well I would be permanently
stressed and so yeah I have kind of like an ideal routine that I try to stick to
and most days it works but sometimes it doesn't and if it doesn't it's not the
end of the world obviously you guys know by now watching all these mummy videos
that none of us know what we're doing we're all doing what we think is best
for our kids and we're trying to take inspiration from other mums and just do
our best really so this is a routine for a five month old baby who is mixed fed
so she's breastfed and bottle fed and she also recently just started weaning so
I've included the time that I give her solid foods in the schedule as well
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check it out so let me get her sorted and we'll get started right so she's
down here having her bottle and I've got my note on my phone to help me through
this video so let's start with a wake time so if the banner usually wakes up
at half past big give or take everything here give or take about an hour but it's
usually half past six that she wake for the day and before I had kids I used to
think like if they are still feeding through the night how do you know when
they are awake for the day but you do know because they just will not those
also go back to sleep they are ready and their eyes are wide open and they don't
want to be in the bedroom anymore it's like they've had a Nelson theme in the
bedroom so half of 6 is at the end of her tether and I cannot sneak in anymore
five minutes of sleep so house get her downstairs and also I do that because I
don't want to wake James up James this is about a big brother who is 2 and he
sleeps in until a little bit later than half a stick so if I keep her upstairs
she's so loud and she's going to wake him up so I just bring her downstairs
with me and because she still feeds feeds through the night which is
something that you'll see later on in the in the routine she gets plenty of
milk in the night this girl breastfeed all night long so when she wakes I'm not
that desperate to immediately feed her a bottle with my first as soon as he woke
up he had a bottle in his mouth because I worried that he was going to be
starving from you know all my long sleeping and all that but with her
because I know she's feeding in the night I know she's getting milk so I'm
not that sort of quick to go and feed her so we come downstairs I make myself
a coffee make myself some cereal trying in webs and breakfast well if I can
change her nappy catch up on some YouTube have a little play around the
floor with her and usually just try and lay the morning feed for a little bit
longer so then I go and make her a bottle and she has first bottle and
around about half-past seven and she used to fall asleep having a bottle and
sometimes if she's really tired she still will but nowadays is a little bit
less common for her to fall asleep whilst having milk which makes it harder
to settle her to sleep so she has a bottle at house 7 and she is in real
snacker she will have bits and bobs and a little bit here and then she'll stop
and play and have a little bit more so it's a bit harder to keep track of
whether or not she's finishing that bottle or am I going to have to make her
a fresh bottle because she's taken so long to finish it but if she has the
bottle within an hour of me making it then I'll still feed it to her so at a
roundabout we have a look half a state I put her down for a nap and this is his
first nap of the day and it's usually the longest nap so she naps from half a
state to half-past nine and yes so to nap for a good hour and first first
thing in the morning so then when she wakes at half 9:00 her big brother will
be awake by that point so everybody has some playtime down here and it's just a
very fast-paced household you know we're just running around doing things all the
time I work from home so I'm trying to sneak in some work at the same time as
giving the kids breakfast and getting them sorted being the second baby she's
learned that she needs to be a little bit more independent in that she if she
loses a toy she's going to have to find a way to get it if she wants it quickly
so that's been quite different to me because I've always been kind of a very
hands-on you know help you every step of the way mum with Jane if he lost a toy
I'd be right there to give you his toy back and that's not always a good thing
but you know it made him feel like someone was always there but with her
I'm not always there like immediately when she needs me because I might be
with James I might be doing other things so she's kind of learned to be a little
bit more independent which is good yes so we're talking about you so what's
next I try to put her down for a nap two hours after she wakes from a nap and
I also try to give her a bottle every four hours so that's kind of the
schedule that I try to stick to I'm so sorry the light keeps changing I'm using
natural light in the Sun is out so it makes it's making things either too
bright or too dark but I'm just going to carry on and hope for the best
so lunch time so she's having her lunch time solid foods at about half past
eleven and she's only just started so at the beginning of weaning at least this
is how we do it I start with one meal a day and her meal is lunch time so that's
what she hasn't half a lemon and she also has a little drink of water and at
12 o'clock she has a second bottle of the day and she will usually fall asleep
having that bottle so she will down for a nap around about quarter past twelve
and then sleep until about twenty to one and that's when we all start to get
ready to go out because if we're going out that day obviously if not then
things just carry on his normal but if we're going out that's the best time to
go out for us because my son James he's happier when he's got he's tummy full
and it's not the end of the day still so midday after he's had his lunch after
the Bellas had her nap is the best time for us to head out somewhere and for us
all to be happy and content so that's when we would go out if we do go out
around about one o'clock so then she'll have another nap at around about three
o'clock so if we're still out to nap in her car seat or in her buggy if we're
back home then I'll put her in her crib or in her cot stairs
so she'll nap for about 40 minutes she is a real cat Napper as well she won't
have like really long naps but she is getting better as the months go by so
sort of around about three to four months old she's have 15 to 20-minute
naps now she's getting more into 30 minutes and 40 minutes 45 minute naps so
then the next thing is you have a bottle at 4 o'clock and then it's the struggle
to make it through and so fast time at 5 o'clock because both my kids are
exhausted by bath time at 5:00 so they are a little bit grisly er than usual
around about 4 to 5 o'clock so they have a bath 5 o'clock both of them and then
at 6 o'clock she has another nap and I would love for this to be her bedtime
like her actual going down to sleep and not waking up until at least 11 o'clock
but she does tend to think that this is an app
and even though my son has an early bedtime as well because he's dropped his
snaps he doesn't nap in the day anymore so he's shattered by 6:00 p.m. she goes
down at 6:00 but she wakes up about half an hour after thinking that she's had a
nap but I've done something recently that's changed this habit of hers so she
goes down at 6:00 she wakes up at half past 6:00 I gave her a bottle straight
away sort of half past six you know 6:40 I give her a bottle and she will kind of
like have a top-up feed and feel still a little bit drowsy I try not to interact
with her too much because I don't want to put her down on the floor to play and
crawl because you think really is playtime when in an actual fact I want
her to be staying asleep so if I'm lucky when she's having that half-past six
bottle she'll go straight back to sleep and I'll put her down again and she was
been asleep if not and that happened sometimes she's still awake after the
bottle or she doesn't want to drink the bottle then I just walk her around a
little bit give her a cuddle and then I put her back down in the crib and kind
of rub her back and try to sing to her without picking her up or doing too much
like looking I don't look her in the eye that is the death of bedtime if I catch
her eye that is it I don't know why I don't know if any yawns babies do that
but my children if I sketch if I look them in the eye when we're trying to put
them to sleep it's ruined so I don't look her in the eye I just kind of
reassure her that I'm still there she doesn't really cry she sometimes she
moaned a little bit just kind of like just baby moan but she doesn't really
cry and yeah she finally settles back to sleep by me rubbing her back sometimes I
have to pick her up and walk her around but recently she's been going down quite
well to sleep like that just by having like a muddling near her face to smell
and me rubbing her back so yeah it's all goes well she goes back to sleep at
around about seven to half past seven and it's at that point that she has a
longer stretch of silly but I've cut down feeding her to sleep because I
realized that I was actually given her more interaction and keeping him more
awake by picking her up giving her a bottle or breast feed to try and get him
back to sleep and it wasn't working so I've cut those feet
out of her Albertine and I will only give her a bottle then at around about
11 o'clock if I can't get her to sleep any other way and then yes so if she's
still asleep 11 I leave her asleep until she wakes but usually she wakes up
11 to midnight and she has a bottle or a breast feed and then I try to get her
back to sleep but usually that's when our cluster
feeding starts so if the Bella is not very good at settling in the night
without feeding and I get worried that I'm going to wake James up if I don't
give her a feed and try to get her to settle in any other way so I've been
doing the unthinkable and I've been feeding her too steep and she stays
latched on all night long which is not ideal but that's the next thing that
we're going to tackle so yes from eleven o'clock until about half-past six I am
hopping from one side to the next of the bed feeding her on both sides so I don't
bottle feed her in the night because it's just more convenient for me to
breastfeed and it's the only time that I consistently breastfeed her at the
moment and yeah that's what we do I will try my best to cut down the cluster feed
in the night and only have set times where I feed him so that is our routine
for Isabella at five months old she's going to be six months in a few days and
if you guys would like to see a six-month-old routine sort of when we've
settled more into her six months then let me know in the comments below if you
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random scheduling routines off the internet and try and follow it and adapt
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