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Day in the life of your babe?

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What is a day in the life of your baby's routine and how old is your lo? Do they have consistent sleep/feed times? If so, what are they?
 
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DS is with DH during the day and with me at night. He goes to a babysitter about 9 hours a week. That's as scheduled as we get.
DS is 6 1/2 months old. He gets bottles whenever he wants one (usually every 2 1/2 - 3 hours), "lunch" anywhere between 11 and 1, and "dinner" anywhere between 6 and 8. Lunch and dinner are solids and a bottle. His favorite right now is sweet potatoes. (I am always amazed at how much one mashed sweet potato makes. He can eat for days on one big one!)
He sleeps in 30-60 minute naps 2-5 times a day, whenever he wants. He has slept through the night for the past 3 days!!! YAY!!! Before that he was getting up avery 3 hours or so to eat.
The rest of the day is spent just hanging out and playing. Tummy time, snuggle time, etc. I'm not big on schedules for him, as you can see. It's funny because I am the most scheduled person I know, but I figure, who am I to decide when he is tired or hungry. Each child is different and some seem to really regulate themselves early on. We all know people who could set their clocks by when their child did something. I'm just letting Jason set his own pace and hopefully he'll get himself on a schedule that works for him.
 
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My babe is 11 mos old. He is my happy baby
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No real consistency in his day other than he gets up around 6:30-7am and goes down around 8-9pm. He is inbetween needing 1 or 2 naps, so it varies from day to day. He sleeps a total of about 12-14 hrs per day, eats 3-4 solid meals a day - a morning bottle/cup of milkies, solid breakfast, lunch around noon, a late afternoon snack, and dinner around 6pm, bottle at bedtime.
 
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let's see, dd is 15 mos. old. our day begins around noon.
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she wakes up then, and we nurse in bed for about 10 mins. before she is ready to get up. then we hang out, play, listen to music, eat a little something, go outside if the weather's nice. currently, at 2:10 we leave to pick up my husband's step-brothers-in-law (?) from school - for a little extra cash. then we play and eat at their house until around 5 PM when their stepdad gets home from work. then we head back home (only a 10 minute drive) and dd usually falls asleep in the car. i carry her in and lay her down, and she naps for approx. an hour - but sometimes she wakes up when i take her out of the carseat, or sometimes i lay down too and we sleep for more than an hour. whenever she/we wake up, we eat some dinner, play with dh, go outside, etc. or sometimes we drive a couple of blocks to my mom's and play with her and my 2-yr-old sister. dd starts getting sleepy anywhere from 11 PM to 2 AM, depending on what happened with the afternoon nap, and we lay in bed and nurse and watch something on TV
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: until she falls asleep.