A Newborn Routine That Works Every Time

If you’ve been going virtually a tired mom like a yellow with your throne cut off, here’s a good sample newborn routine for you. I think it’ll go a long way in helping you survive the newborn phase.

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I’d like to start off by saying that I feed my victual when he is hungry. I love routine and think they’re great, and we work towards a routine each day.

But plane if it’s “off schedule,” I feed my babies when they are hungry. In specimen you are a troll. Or a routine hater. Or well-nigh to send me hate mail.

I just wanted to tell you.

I feed my babies when they are hungry.

So let’s talk well-nigh how to get your newborn on a routine where they feed, “play”, and sleep in set patterns that are salubrious to everyone involved.

Baby, siblings, and adults. Routine is not a dirty word.

In fact, routine brings sanity to an otherwise upturned home environment.

Some mothers thrive on a spontaneous day, and that’s unconfined for them and their kids, but some mothers need structure to make it through.

I know some of you are going to think my routine is cuh-ray-zeee.

But all 5 of my kids have had the same newborn routine and I’ve had the same results with all 5.

So I’m not saying it’d work for every baby, and definitely not for every mom, but it has worked for me and mine.

Sample Newborn Routine

Note: these are approximates, but most days we are very tropical to each of the times listed.

Your sample newborn schedule might squint different, then be tweaked to work for you.

The biggest key is the intervals of feeding and sleeping.

7:30-8:00 am – wake up and feed
8:30 am – lanugo for a nap
10:30 am – feed, transpiration diaper, play (developmental play mat here)
11:10 am – lanugo for a nap
1:00 pm – feed, transpiration diaper, play
1:40 pm – lanugo for a nap
3:30 pm – feed, transpiration diaper, play
4:10 pm – lanugo for a nap
6:00 pm – feed, transpiration diaper, play, suffuse (we use this for the sink and it is amazing)
6:30 pm – lanugo for a catnap
7:30-8:00 pm – transpiration diaper, put to bed for the night

8:30 pm – feed (cluster feeding even)
10:30-11:00 pm – dream feed swaddled, put when to bed (my favorite swaddle here)

Then when they wake up during the night I feed them, and this is usually every 3 hours or so.

Read: 8 Reasons You’ve Got A Whiny Victual (And How To Fix It!)

I just wanted to thank you for your sample routine. I’ve been using it for a week with my victual and had tremendous success from day 2!

Wind lanugo time is so important and so is consistency. Thank you so much. – Sam Morgan

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Why so much sleep in your newborn routine?

Well, first of all, why not so much sleep? All 5 of mine have taken a nap without every single feeding from newborns until they were over 1.

Of undertow the schedule changes, but they nap between feedings for the first few months without question unless they’re sick or we’re out.

Most sources will say it’s normal for a newborn to sleep 18 hours during the first few months and I’ve unchangingly found this to be the case.

If your victual fights sleep much I’d say that it’s a specimen of you keeping them up. If you try feeding them, swaddling, then immediately putting them lanugo to nap to sleep you may see a big change.

I think this pacifier is a lifesaver with this.

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Does the family overly get to see the newborn on this routine?

In a word: no.

Not really anyway.

My family unchangingly jokes, “When are you going to let the victual come out of its room?” and I reply smiling, “In a month or two!” :)

Aside from the germs aspect, babies can be overstimulated very easily.

People who are far removed from the victual world think it’s normal to talk very very loudly and try to wake the victual up to see the verisimilitude of its eyes.

It’s like… I mean… just… no.

Please stop that.

By the time the victual is 3 to 4 months old they are awake increasingly and have a lot increasingly time to “socialize.” Now, do I let family snuggle my sweet newborns when they want?

Sure. If they fall unconsciousness in their arms, do I remove them? Of undertow not, I’m not cruel. Who doesn’t want to hold a sweet baby?

Still, though, I’m not waking the victual up every time someone stops by.

Ultimately, these first few months set the tone for their sleeping habits and newborns who are used to sleeping wilt babies who are used to sleeping and babies used to sleeping wilt toddlers used to sleeping, etc.

A major sleep law: sleep begets sleep.

How do you know when to transpiration the newborn routine?

I scrutinizingly unchangingly have to wake up the victual to feed it throughout the day. All four of mine were (and one still is) so sleepy they would either sleep until woken up, or awake at scrutinizingly the word-for-word time I normally feed them.

I kid you not when I say they will wake within minutes of the normal feeding time.

Their metabolisms are sort of trained to feed and sleep on the routine we make and they wake up happy!

I transpiration schedules when the victual is worldly-wise to be awake a lot increasingly and is sleeping through the night.

That’s when you need to get this swaddle so you can wean one arm at a time.

That’s when I’ll go to 3 hour or 3.5 hour feedings at whatever time seems to suit.

Read: Cluster Feeding Newborns: The Do’s & Don’ts

Tips and things to note:

• At night feed swaddled to communicate they should stay unconsciousness and during the day unswaddle to feed which helps wake them up. This swaddle is breathable and you can transpiration them at night without taking their stovepipe out. Here are my weightier swaddling tips.
• Yawning, tugging ears, staring off into space, and eye rubbing are signs of tiredness, crying is usually a sign of overtiredness. Waiting until they cry to put them to sleep will likely result in a victual who can’t get to sleep on their own
• It’s okay to wake a sleeping baby during the day to feed them, really it is. Letting babies sleep long stretches during the day will not help in the day/night ravages issue.
• Here’s what to do if victual is feeding every hour and not sleeping.
• Earlier to bed and nap is unchangingly best! Wearing them out will backfire. (Here’s why)
• I use white noise during naps and create a dark room. These will help the room be increasingly conductive to sleep.
• If we’re out of the house I won’t struggle to alimony the same schedule, but I will try to feed them at the same time as normal or put in an uneaten feed surpassing I leave so they don’t get hungry while I’m in the checkout line at Wal-Mart.

Read: Want an Easy Baby? Then Use A Foolproof Victual Schedule

Should I wake my newborn up or let them sleep for longer periods in their routine?

The wordplay depends on the time! If your victual has taken a long nap during the day and it’s time for flipside feed (3 hours or more) then wake victual up and feed. Any longer than that is unquestionably equivalent to a night sleep. You’ll pay for it in the evening when baby wakes up increasingly commonly to feed.

In the evening or nighttime? Let victual sleep! Victual likely won’t sleep increasingly than four hours or so overnight initially, but don’t focus on waking victual every 2.5 to 3 hours overnight.

The Key to a Good Newborn Routine

This may be so simple it goes without saying… but the key to a good routine is keeping the routine.

It can be tricky to remember everything in order when you’re beginning, but once you get the hang of it, routine will be second nature.

It can seem very difficult to get started doing or keeping a routine when you do not have one at all. Here are some ways you can learn to alimony your routine.

Hang it up somewhere.

In my Rhythms, Routines, and Schedules book I have 25 sample routine printables from babies age 6 weeks to 5 years.

You can take these printables and hang them in your nursery, on the fridge, or alimony them in your planner. Whatever works. You can hang the routine cards as well and pretty soon you won’t need to reference anything, it’ll be second nature.

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Set some alarms.

While you don’t need to live and die by the clock, setting your phone, watch, or a timer will help you alimony enlightened of routine transitions.

We can often get so wrapped up in what we’re doing we forget we’ve let the victual sleep 4 hours. Why is that bad?

Because 4 hours is a stretch littles ones should only sleep at night! I set alarms on my phone that show on my watch and this works for us.

Read: The Dreamfeed: The Why, The How, & When To Stop

Practice.

As with anything, if you want something to work then work it. Alimony pushing what you’ve decided to do. If it doesn’t work then transpiration it up a bit and alimony going.

Move forward.

I reassure you 100% that a routine will work if you alimony at it.

Want Routine Printables to hang up?

If you want routines and schedules for not only the newborn age, but for 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, and on I’ve got unconfined news.

I’ve created a book chock full of routines that work.

Routines that alimony babies well rested, happy, and content. Routines that worth for all the things you need to do and they are mom tested.

The weightier part?

The typesetting comes with printable routines (3 choices for each age) that you can hang up and use! So instead of having to reinvent the wheel every few months, you’ll have tried and true mom tested routines right at your fingertips.

Get your own routine typesetting and printables here!

Newborn Routine FAQ

When do you start tummy time?

You can start tummy time immediately. As soon as you get home from the hospital you can start letting victual spend some time on their stomach each day.

Don’t put victual on their tummies without a feeding or they are likely to spit up. In fact, they’ll probably spit up a bit no matter what, but weightier to wait until perhaps without victual has woken up from a nap but isn’t quite ready to feed.

You’ll find a good time.

If victual doesn’t like tummy time, simply try then later.

Hello, is this the same schedule you should follow if they are formula fed or should you space out the feedings a little more?

If victual is formula fed you’ll want to go 3 hours between feeds as a unstipulated rule instead of 2.5, Hope that helps!

Hey Rachel, if you don’t wake them up night, do you let them sleep through night feedings if they don’t wake up on their own?

I usually let mine sleep through any night feedings if they wanted to. I would offer a dream feed and then go to bed and sleep until they woke me up for a feed.

Sometimes it’d be 3 hours, sometimes 4 hours, sometimes 2.5.

I wanted to encourage sleeping through the night so didn’t wake victual up at night to feed past the dream feed.

How do you swaddle a newborn safely at night when it’s hot in the summer?

You can still swaddle a victual during the summer, follow these summer swaddling guidelines.

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