We only have one child yet. Thanks to the very good advice from some UK maternity nurses we got rid of night feeds early (~ two months). We finally dared getting rid of the dummy and sleep training him after 4 months and OMG we get 12h of sleep every night plus 2-2.5h during the noon nap.
I have no idea how this can work with a second child (or really any kind of non pandemic life) but this is so much better than I expected parenthood to be, I guess we'll find out. At any rate for now we are huge believers in the fixed schedule as it just worked so well. Perhaps hiring a maternity nurse for the first months is really the way to go?
Thank you for reading! I am so with you on schedules, definitely harder with two but not impossible ( hope). We are on our way, just definitely taking the scenic route. Luckily I am almost entirely a stay at home mom, where my brain breaks is to think of people doing this all night and then waking up and functioning at work all day!
Interesting read!
We only have one child yet. Thanks to the very good advice from some UK maternity nurses we got rid of night feeds early (~ two months). We finally dared getting rid of the dummy and sleep training him after 4 months and OMG we get 12h of sleep every night plus 2-2.5h during the noon nap.
I have no idea how this can work with a second child (or really any kind of non pandemic life) but this is so much better than I expected parenthood to be, I guess we'll find out. At any rate for now we are huge believers in the fixed schedule as it just worked so well. Perhaps hiring a maternity nurse for the first months is really the way to go?
Thank you for reading! I am so with you on schedules, definitely harder with two but not impossible ( hope). We are on our way, just definitely taking the scenic route. Luckily I am almost entirely a stay at home mom, where my brain breaks is to think of people doing this all night and then waking up and functioning at work all day!