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Home > Baby > Baby Schedules > Baby Sleep & Feeding Schedules
Seven keys to creating a successful baby sleep, feeding, and play schedule
by Maureen Connolly
Reviewed by the BabyCenter Medical Advisory Board
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Highlights
Get your baby used to a bedtime routine early on
Teach your baby the difference between night and day
Learn to read your baby's cues
When starting out, put your baby's schedule first
Expect changes during growth spurts and milestones
Adjust your baby's schedule to suit his age
Don't expect perfection
Getting into a regular schedule for sleep, feeding, and activities can make life easier for you and your baby. But how to start? Below, find seven great guidelines for establishing a routine that works.
Get your baby used to a bedtime routine early on
Once you have a consistent bedtime worked out, a daytime routine will fall into place, says Tanya Remer Altmann, a pediatrician and editor-in-chief of The Wonder Years: Helping Your Baby and Young Child Successfully Negotiate the Major Developmental Milestones.
And the easiest way to establish a regular bedtime is to start a predictable bedtime routine that you and your baby can depend on night after night.
"The bedtime routine is the most important thing to consider when establishing a schedule," says Altmann. "You can't force it in the first few months, but you can start practicing at around 2 months."
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Altmann says to keep it simple: a warm bath, jammies, a feeding, then lights-out. It's fine if feeding lulls your baby to sleep in the early months, Altmann says, but by 3 or 4 months you may want to try putting him down awake so he'll learn to fall asleep on his own.
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