this record of his schedule<\/a>. Using those two historical logs, we’re building a new schedule for Linus and working on these problems. <\/p>\nHere’s my plan of attack. First, we’re leaving the evenings alone and just focusing on eliminating the nighttime feedings. Last night he went 5 hours between bedtime and his first nurse. Every day we’ll add 30 minutes on to that until he can go approximately 7-8 hours without a feeding at night. At the same time, we’re setting a fixed wake-up time for him, 6 AM. This will set him on a predictable schedule for the day, and should align to be his first feeding of the day once we wean him from nighttime nursing. <\/p>\n
After we’ve achieved that goal, then we’ll start trying to fix the evening. We need to institute a predictable evening ritual, a standard routine. At some point, we’ll also want to move his bedtime earlier. That would be the last step, however, in our plan. <\/p>\n
So, we started last night and we’ll see how it goes. Wish us luck!! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Somehow, against all thoughts and plans to the contrary, we’ve ended up with a baby that won’t sleep through the night. This is due to at least a few reasons that I can think of, including the fact that Henry’s schedule is more fixed, so we’ve worked Linus in around Henry, and also that Linus’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3483,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions\/3483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iheartdavids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}