To maximize her time with Ellie, she moved her bedtime up to 6:45pm. She wakes up at 2am, gets home from work by 12pm and goes to bed by 7:15pm.
4 MONTH OLD DAILY SCHEDULE WITH FEEDING AND PLAY SERIES
(Our first feed was at 7:30am and the bedtime feed was at 7:30pm.) Check out the series on Instagram for more details!Ĭallie Dauler has also shared about how she adjusted her daughter, Ellie’s, schedule to accommodate her crazy work hours. And we shifted the 8-16 week schedule back 30 minutes. (Our first feed was between 5 and 6am and the bedtime feed was at 7:30pm). To accomplish this, we shifted the 4-8 week schedule forward 1 hour. My goals were to minimize overlapping activities and to have everyone in bed with enough time leftover for my husband and I to have some time to ourselves each night! In our Newborn Moments series on Instagram, I recently shared how I’ve adjusted Moms on Call’s Typical Day Schedules to work for our family. So, once we have the MOC routines and schedules in place, how do we maximize flexibility? Here are some of the things that have been working for us as we juggle three kids. But having the foundational structure of a consistent routine provides the flexibility needed to accommodate these bumps in the road without missing a beat. We hit unexpected traffic, meetings run late and kids get sick. Now, we do live in reality and in reality, things often don’t go as planned. That is one thing that my mother-in-law has always said she’s appreciated about watching our babies for us - she knows exactly what to expect! We all know that babies need to eat and sleep A LOT, like every 3 hours! And having these things happen at the same time every day makes life a whole lot easier (for us and the baby). Freedom to run errands, have lunch with a friend, take a shower and have a date night! Routines and schedules should do the opposite and create freedom. It’s not just for “A-type people ” and should not be so constrictive that it creates stress.
This structure and organization promotes health and wellness. Simply because routines and schedules create familiarity that helps us to feel in control and safe by knowing what’s going to happen and when. People, including babies, thrive on routine. And this provides the foundation for having flexibility.
I will explain how routines and schedules can actually create freedom and space (versus limiting them). In this post, I want to debunk this myth. Now, this contradicts one of the big myths out there that we hear so often - that Moms on Call’s routines and schedules are “too strict”. (Long before I worked here!) The routines and schedules create freedom which affords us the flexibility needed to be on-the-go and say “yes” as much as possible. And that is one thing I have always loved about Moms on Call. As a new mom of three, schedule flexibility is a necessity for our family.
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