Sample Babywise Schedules. Babywise schedule for the fourth month. You are looking at weeks 14-18. See what schedule other Babywise babies followed.

Your baby’s fourth month is her month as she turns three months old. Your baby is 3-4 months of age. The first month, 0 months old, was the first few weeks of life. The fourth month is her month as a three month old. This is your first month stepping out of the newborn months!

Looking for schedules for a 4-month-old? Click here!

Now that you have a three month old, read through my sleep hierarchy for 3-6 month olds. The goals and ideals change a bit with this older age range. Here are some sample Babywise schedules for you to use this month. This post may contain affiliate links which won’t change your price but will share some commission.

Fourth Month Overview

You are looking at baby being about 14-18 weeks old. The weeks don’t line up exactly with months old, but this is the basic range. During this fourth month, aim for the following:

• 13 Weeks: Might be ready for 5-7 feedings in day.
• Your baby will likely be sleeping anywhere from 7-10 hours at night. If you drop the dreamfeed, baby might sleep 12 hours at night.
• Nighttime feeds should go away for most babies during this time if they haven’t already.
• Watch for signs your baby is ready to drop the dreamfeed. Not all babies are, but some will be ready during this month. If you are breastfeeding, consider pumping at a dreamfeed if your baby stops eating at the dreamfeed. This will help keep milk supply up.
• Watch for signs your baby is ready to stop being swaddled. Some swaddle beyond this age, but some are ready to stop as a three month old.
• Infants in this age range will start to talk to themselves around 5 AM. If left alone, they will typically go back to sleep. This is just something they do developmentally.
• There should be 3-4 daytime naps.
• By 4 months old, your baby should drop the fourth nap. Watch for signs your infant is able to make it without that last evening nap. Hours of day sleep don’t really decrease. Daytime sleep will shift so total sleep in a 24 hour period is the same, it is just rearranged. You might have one nap longer, two naps longer, or bedtime moved up. It can also be a combination of all of those things.
• There is a significant Wonder Week around 12 weeks old. This usually impacts how well your baby eats but does not usually interfere with sleep, so it should not cause short naps.
• Make sure you have a consistent bedtime routine each night. This will really signal to your baby that it is time for nighttime sleep.
• You should still be following an eat/wake/sleep cycle throughout the day.

>>>Read: Reasons Your 3 Month Old Won’t Eat (and how to help)

Our Sample Baby Schedules

Here are our schedules we used in this age range. These are the nap schedules my babies actually used.

Week 12 Baby Schedule

Schedule 1
7:30 AM–eat
8:30 AM–nap
10 or 10:30 AM–eat (I always get her by 10:30)
10:50 or 11:20 AM–nap
1 or 1:30 PM–eat (I always get her by 1:30)
1:50 or 2:20 PM–nap
4:00 PM–eat
4:50 PM–nap
6:00 PM–eat
6:45 PM–put in swing (due to witching hour)–sometimes she sleeps, sometimes not
8:00 PM–eat (essentially a dreamfeed–no waketime)
8:30 PM–in bed
10:00 PM–Dreamfeed

Schedule 2
8:10–feed
9:10–nap
11:30–feed
12:20–nap
3:00–feed
3:50–nap
6:00–feed
7:00–nap
8:00–feed, then bedtime
10:15–dreamfeed

Week 13 Baby Schedule

Our schedule had some differences from the previous week. Our morning waketime got a little later because of the early morning feedings and we also dropped the cluster feeding:

Schedule 1
8:00 AM–eat
8:50 AM–nap
10:30 AM–eat
11:30 AM–nap
1:30 PM–eat
2:30 PM–nap
4:30 PM–eat
5:30 PM–nap
6:30-7:00 PM–eat
7:30-8:00 PM–sleep in swing due to witching hour
10:00 PM–Dreamfeed
5:30-6:00 AM–early morning feeding (she wakes for this, I don’t wake her)

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Schedule 2
8:10–feed
9:10–nap
11:30–feed
12:20–nap
3:00–feed
3:50–nap
6:00–feed
7:00–nap
8:00–feed, then bedtime
10:15–dreamfeed

Week 14 Baby Schedule

I am very careful about keeping a consistent schedule with my baby, but even so, notice how much a schedule can change from week to week.

Baby’s sleep patterns and needs can change so quickly. You always need to be willing to tweak and adjust.

Schedule 1
7:30–nurse
8:30–nap
10:30–nurse
11:30–nap
1:00–nurse
2:00–nap
4:00–nurse
5:00–nap
6:30–nurse
7:30–bed
10:00–nurse then bed (dreamfeed)
At this age, her night feeding was in those early morning hours, usually around 6 AM. I believe she dropped that feeding around 4 months.

Schedule 2
8:00–eat
8:50–nap
11:00–eat
12:00–nap
2:00–eat
3:00–nap
4:30–eat
5:30–nap
6:30 or 7:00–eat then down to bed
10:00–dreamfeed
Every other night, she ate between 5:30 AM and 6:00 AM. Those days, we started at 8 AM. The other days, she at between 7:00 AM and 7:30 AM. She still slept until about 11:00 AM.

Schedule 3
8:10–feed
9:10–nap
11:30–feed
12:20–nap
3:00–feed
3:50–nap
6:00–feed
7:00–nap
8:00–feed, then bedtime
10:15–dreamfeed

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Week 15 Baby Schedule

Schedule 1
8:00 AM–eat
8:50 AM–nap
11:00 AM–eat
12:00 PM–nap
2:00 PM–eat (sometimes this was at 1:30 PM)
3:00 PM–nap
4:30 PM–eat
5:40-5:50 PM–nap
6:30 PM–sometimes woke. She is starting to usually take a shorter nap at this time of day. If she woke at 6:30, I got her and held her until starting to feed her at 7:00 PM. If she didn’t wake at 6:30, I got her up at 7:00 to eat.
7:00 PM–eat then right back to bed.
7:30 PM–in bed
10:00-10:30 PM–dreamfeed
5:30ish AM–eat from one side

Schedule 2
7:30–feed
8:30–nap
11:00–feed
12:00–nap
2:00 or 2:30–feed
3:00–nap (one hour after waking)
5:00 or 5:30–feed
6:30–nap (one hour after waking–sometimes she does one hour ten minutes here)
7:30–feed, then bedtime
9:45–dreamfeed

Week 16 Baby Schedule

You can start to see the effects of a sleep regression during this week or the weeks following this. This is known as Wonder Week 19, or Leap 4, and is very disruptive to sleep. The 4-month sleep regression is coming!

The good news is this is normal and just a part of developmental milestones. It will end.

Schedule 1
It is a bit different this week since she is extending nights. I will just say she is waking at seven even though it ranged from 6:45-7:15. 7:00 is a happy medium.
7:00 AM–eat
7:50 AM–nap
10:30 AM–eat
11:30-11:35 AM–nap
1:30 PM–eat
2:35 PM–nap
4:00 or 4:30 PM–eat
5:15-5:45 PM–nap
6:30-6:45 PM–wake up
7:00 PM–eat then straight to bed
10:00 PM–dreamfeed

Schedule 2
7:30–feed
8:30–nap
11:00–feed
12:00–nap
2:00 or 2:30–feed
3:00–nap (one hour after waking)
5:00 or 5:30–feed
6:30–nap (one hour after waking–sometimes she does one hour ten minutes here)
7:30–feed, then bedtime
9:45–dreamfeed

Week 17 Baby Schedule

Schedule 1
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

Schedule 2
This is our daily schedule. BUT this week could best be described as “Sporadic.” Some days, she followed this. Some days, she took a short morning nap and wanted to eat at 10 instead. She pretty much always had a long nap of the day, but it could be any one of the naps that was long. We always ended right at 7:30 with me waking her up to eat and started at 7:30 with me waking her up to eat in the morning, but the days were sporadic.

7:30–feed
8:30–nap
11:00–feed
12:00–nap
2:00 or 2:30–feed
3:00–nap (one hour after waking)
5:00 or 5:30–feed
6:30–nap (one hour after waking–sometimes she does one hour ten minutes here)
7:30–feed, then bedtime
9:45–dreamfeed

Week 18 Baby Schedule

Schedule 1
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

>>>It is normal to have some sleep problems at this age. Read all about it in Everything you need to know about Wonder Week 19

Schedule 2
7:30–feed
8:35–nap
11:30–feed
12:45–nap
2:30–feed
3:45–nap
5:00 or 5:30–feed
6:30–nap (80 minutes after waking)
7:30–feed, then bedtime
9:45–dreamfeed

Your Sample Schedules:

Here are your schedules you have shared over the years. If you didn’t find a baby sleep schedule that worked for you above, there are a lot more options below:

Week 12 Sample Baby Schedules 

12 week old girl (but same schedule since 9 weeks or so)
I also work very early, so I have to leave the house by 6:30 am and get home at 5. So I always want to make sure she starts the day with a breastfeeding before getting breastmilk from a bottle all day.
5:30 wake
6-6:15 independent playtime while I get ready for work
6:15 nap
8:30 feed
9:00-9:30 play time with daddy and tummy time
9:30 nap
11:00 feed
12:15 nap
2:00 feed
3:15 nap (she has a very hard time with this nap)
4:45 or 5:00 feed
6:00 nap (she has a hard time with this nap sometimes)
8:00 feed
8:30-9:00 bed, depending on cues
My husband pointed out that I should mention we don’t dreamfeed. I tried it, and she actually wouldn’t sleep through the night on nights that I did one. It started because I was so tired I skipped the dreamfeed for a couple of nights and she slept through. Then I picked it back up and she woke at 3:30. Perhaps because of gas? Either way, she currently doesn’t eat between 8 and 5:30

Week 13 Sample Baby Schedules 

Almost 3 months
I wake him up at 9:00 am-breast feed
Go down for nap 10:00
Breast Feed 12:00
Go down for Nap 1:00-1:10
Breast Feed 3:30
Go down for Nap 4:30
Breast feed 6:00
Go down for Nap 7-730
Formula bottle 8:00
Goes to sleep 9:00
Dreamfeed 930-10:00
He sometimes awakes by the 45 minute intruder during 2nd and 3rd nap but if I go in right away and give paci he goes right back to sleep and finishes out nap… he started sttn at 7 weeks!

Week 14 Sample Baby Schedules  : 

3 Months Girl
7:00am – eat
8:00am – nap
10:00am – eat
11:00am – nap
1:00pm – eat
2:00pm – nap
4:00pm – eat
5:00pm – nap
7:00pm – eat
8:00pm – bed time
10:00pm – dreamfeed
(5/6:00am) – shortened feeding

14 Week Old Boy
We just moved to this schedule about 4 days ago after weeks of battling the 45-minute intruder and thinking he needed less awake time. I finally went with my gut that he was undertired and so allowed more awake time (almost 2 hours sometimes!), dropped the dreamfeed, and moved to a 3.5 hour schedule during the day. It has worked like a charm so far–he sleeps 1.5-1.75 hours each nap, 10-11 hours at night, and is happy and alert during awake times! He also still averages 15-15.5 hours of sleep a day, so it seems like enough. And he is not overly sensitive about the exact amount of wake time. We just watch for yawns, stillness, or sometimes fussiness before putting him down.
7am Wake, nurse both sides. (Sometimes he wakes between 6 and 7 but goes back to sleep or lays quietly.)
Wake time–independent play in gym, some play with mom and dad.
8:45-9am Nap
10:30am Wake, nurse both sides.
Wake time – tummy time, reading, playing in gym, playing with mommy, etc.
12-12:15pm Nap
2pm Wake, nurse both sides
Wake time – playing with mom or dad, reading, more independent play, etc
3:45-4pm Nap
5:15-5:30pm Wake, nurse both sides
Wake time – Bath, playing, errands or a walk, hanging out with us while we eat dinner
7:30pm Nurse both sides
Into pjs, read a book, sing a lullaby, and into bed by 8pm.

No dreamfeed since 13 1/2 weeks. No MOTN feed since 8-9 weeks.

9:30pm Pump right before going to bed. I started doing this when he dropped the dreamfeed, since he’s still pretty young and I don’t want to compromise my supply. Not sure how long I’ll continue.

14 Week Old Baby Girl
7 am: wake, nurse
7:50: nap
10:30: wake, nurse
11:30: nap
1:30: wake, nurse
2:30: nap
4:00-4:30ish: wake, nurse
5:00-5:30ish: nap (This is the shortest nap of the day)
6:00-6:15: wake, take a bath
7:00-7:30: bedtime (I nurse right before I put her to bed)
10:30: Dreamfeed (About 4-5 oz of pumped breastmilk)

14 Week Old Baby Boy
5:30 – I wake and pump
6am -wake/feed (bottle)
8am – 1st nap
10am- feed
12 – 2nd nap
2pm -feed
4pm -3rd nap
4pm – I pump here too
6pm- Feed
8pm – Bedtime + Feed

He was going so long at night I started to pump twice a day to make sure my supply didn’t drop.

I typically can freeze 6oz but it can range up to 12oz. He moved to a 4 hour schedule at 2 months.

3 month Old Baby Schedule
6:30 eat
7:40 nap
9:30 eat
10:50 nap
12:30 eat
2:00 nap
3:30 eat
5:00 nap
5:30-6:00 wake for the evening
7:00 eat
7:30 bedtime

Start time and bedtime are very consistent from day to day, feedings are “on time” about 90% of the time. Waketime and naps are more variable from day to day. Some days she hibernates, other days she seems able to be awake and alert more, so we rely on cues quite a bit for naps. Occasionally chaos ensues and every nap is off! But we are close to the schedule most of the time- I include that info to encourage anyone reading who sees these schedules and wonders what they are doing wrong on off days- I’ve been there! Bad naps and bad days happen, but they have gotten much less frequent. STTN the full 11 hours most nights, she would occasionally starting around 9 weeks but now she is eating more at each feeding and she has started making it through most of the time. Dreamfeed didn’t work for us (we gave it a good effort, but she woke earlier with the dreamfeed than without) and cluster stopped working around 8 weeks.

Combined Ages Sample Baby Schedules  :

10 – 13 week old schedule for a boy
7:30am – 8am – Feed
wake time usually consists of baby in bouncy chair watching mom have her coffee.
9:30am – Nap
11am – Feed
wake time consists of some sort of exercise for mom, either stroller ride or front carrier hike.
12:30pm – Nap
2pm – Feed
wake time: bath then errands.
3:30pm – Nap
5pm – Feed
Wake time: bouncy chair or playpen time. Mom makes dinner.
7pm – Nap or awake usually put in swing because tends to be fussy at this time.
7:45-8:15pm – Last Feed

Have not done dreamfeeds as we are usually in bed early and up early so found dreamfeeds would actually make me lose some of my sleep.
3-4am – Feed (when baby wakes up) straight back to bed. Still trying to drop this feed.

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