The Schedule

This weekend we decided to start putting Kherington on a night time schedule to hopefully help her start sleeping through the night again. The schedule: walk, bath, bottle, bed.

About 8pm we take a walk. There's a 1.5 mile paved loop that's good for this...not sure what we'll do when it snows. We bought two things to make this much easier. A snowsuit for Kherington (5 bucks at kid to kid, it's already getting small on her and isn't my favorite as far as color, but it keeps her nice and toasty for now...and a jogging stroller! We went with the BOB revolution. We joined REI (20 bucks for a lifetime membership) and got 20% off. That made it less than what people were selling their year old, used models on craigslist or ksl. I had been all set on getting a Chariot (jogging and bike trailer combo), but when we actually look at it, it was way wider than I wanted...very disappointing, but I love the one we got (only jogging/walking, not biking).

Anyways, back to the schedule. Kherington usually falls asleep on the walk. When we get home, I take her upstairs and lay her on the bathroom floor and get her undressed for her bath. She LOVES baths. She hears the water, wakes up and starts smiling and kicking. She plays in the bath for 10-20 minutes. We then take her out, get her PJs and give her a bottle. Then it's bedtime! So she's actually asleep around 9:30pm which is great progress for us.

If she wakes up, we pat her back, give her back her binky and let her cry...no picking her up or feeding her until she has cried for an hour. So far (meaning the last 3 nights) it has gone well. She cried for 40ish minutes the first night (really really load), but the last 2 night she has cried for a lot less (an way quieter). She gets up, eats and plays around 5:30 or 6am, then goes back to sleep for a morning nap around 7:30 or 8am (I'll be gone for work by then...so Ryan's in charge of the schedule after that).

Neither Ryan or I are very fond of the 7pm bedtime. We are often out running errand til past that time, so we decided to go with a later schedule.

So that's what's new with us. Hopefully with us letting her cry during the night it doesn't wake my dad up too often:)