McKenna Baby Summary: Week 17

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Schedule and routine for a 16-17 week old newborn baby. Get info on this baby’s daily schedule and routine for each day and know how to structure your day.

McKenna at 17 months old with her mom

This is a summary for McKenna age 16-17 weeks old. Things seem to be smoothing out; it seems that there are fewer changes from week to week, so these posts might not be all that interesting 🙂 But I am continuing on because many of you have asked that I do.

NURSING

As I stated last week, McKenna started off the week taking a bit longer to eat. After a few days of this, she went back to taking about 5-10 minutes per side. She is eating well. She is staying awake for her feedings without any effort on my part.

GROWTH SPURT

I am pretty sure she had a growth spurt at the beginning of this week. She added a feeding to her day the first day of this week. She then ate pretty much as usual after that.

WAKETIME LENGTH

Waketime length stayed the same as last week.

17 week old baby schedule pinnable image

NAPS AND SIBLINGS

My husband took Brayden and Kaitlyn camping to the lake over the weekend. A bunch of friends were going up. I decided to stay home because the campsite is about a quarter to a half mile from the beach. While it is in viewing distance, I didn’t feel comfortable leaving McKenna to sleep while I went to the beach, and sitting by myself up at the campsite didn’t sound all that thrilling to me :). While they were gone, McKenna slept like a champ. She had no siblings to wake her at her transitions.

When Brayden was a baby, we lived next to a family with 8 young children. They played right by his bedroom window all day. For a while, he woke at every transition. After some time, however, he learned to sleep through it. At first, the noise of Brayden and Kaitlyn didn’t bother McKenna. She is now at an age where she gets curious by their noises. She usually goes back to sleep quickly with without crying (just mad talking), but she still wakes sometimes. With them gone, she slept soundly through each nap.

My policy with the family is that they can make normal living noises, but they can’t yell like they are outside. We have indoor voices and outdoor voices. We use them appropriately. I don’t want Brayden and Kaitlyn to not be able to live life as usual, but they still need to have respect for McKenna while she is asleep and speak in our inside voices. They really get it. We were at the park one day this week and there was a sleeping 4 month old. Kaitlyn said, “I am supposed to be quiet?”

Read: Older Children While Baby Naps

NIGHTTIME

This week, she started waking around 5:30-600 again. Since I suspected a growth spurt, I fed her and figure she will go back to extending nights soon. She also is very hot when she wakes up at that time, so I am wondering if stopping the swaddle will help with that when the time comes.

BOTTLEFEEDING

Remember my bottle feeding problem? It is gone. I don’t really know why. I only feed her once a week from it. For a couple of weeks, she wouldn’t eat more than two ounces. Then she ate well from it the last two times I gave it to her (the week of 16-17 weeks and the week of 17-18 weeks, which she just started). I will mention that I use the Adiri Natural Nurser. This seems to be easy for McKenna to use back and forth. Her issue was never about latching on and sucking–it was a preference issue.

SWADDLING

I decided to try to drop the swaddle cold turkey one day this week. I figured I could try it before the disruptions came. If it worked, great. If not, we would go back to it. I also figured I could swaddle her for camping even if she wasn’t swaddled normally anymore. I tried it one nap and she had a hard time falling asleep, so I decided against it. I think when I go for it again, I will do one arm out first rather than cold turkey. I just don’t see a need to disrupt sleeping to drop the swaddle.

OUR SCHEDULE

It went back:

5:30-6:00 AM–eat from one side
8:00 AM–wake and eat
8:50 AM–nap
11:00 AM–eat
12:00 AM–nap
2:00 PM–eat
3:00 PM–nap
4:30 PM–eat
5:45 PM–nap
7:00 PM–eat and straight to bed
10:00 PM–dreamfeed

Babywise Schedule Week 17 pinnable image

OUTINGS/EVENTS

Most outings and events don’t seem so eventful now that McKenna is older. We did things like go to the park and visit friends, but it doesn’t seem so eventful anymore. McKenna isn’t sleeping as well “on the go” as she used to. I usually can only get about a one hour nap out of her when we are out, but she will make up for it in naps later in the day.

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