Sample Babywise Schedules for 5-9 week old baby. Newborn sample schedules to get baby sleeping well and on a consistent routine.
Sample schedules are always popular and helpful for parents implementing a schedule for their newborn. These are sample Babywise schedules for your 1 month old baby–the second month of life.
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As you enter the second month of life with your Babywise baby, you will be focused on adding more of a schedule.
The days of ignoring the clock are over.
Time to focus on having some consistency and getting baby to be more awake during the day.
Do not be mistaken; babies this age will still have very, very short awake times, but they should be able to stay up a little longer than they did last month.
Before you go further, please be sure you have read My Sleep Hierarchy For Newborns. You need to know what your primary and secondary goals should be for a newborn so you keep priorities straight. It will make your newborn life much less frustrating!
Also, if you are working on sleep training, you must read my post Sleep Training: The Four S’s.
Post Contents
- Schedule Month Two Overview
- Month Two Sample Schedules
- Sample Schedule 1
- Sample Schedule 2
- Sample Schedule 3
- Sample Schedule 4
- Sample Schedule 5
- Sample Schedule 6
- Sample Schedule 7
- Our Full Summaries
- Get your Babywise books here
- Sample Month Two Schedules from Readers
- Schedule 1
- Schedule 2
- Schedule 3
- Schedule 4
- Schedule 5
- Helpful Schedule Posts
- READ FURTHER SAMPLE SCHEDULES AS YOUR BABY GROWS
- Babywise Schedules for the First Year
- Babywise Sample Schedules: The First Month
- Sample Babywise Schedules: Two Months Old
- Sample Babywise Schedules: Three Months Old
- Babywise Sample Schedules: Four Months Old
- Babywise Sample Schedules: Five Months Old
- Babywise Sample Schedules: Six Months Old
- Babywise Sample Schedules: Seven Months Old
- Babywise Sample Schedules: Eight Months Old
- Babywise Sample Schedules: Nine Months Old
- Babywise Sample Schedules: Ten Months Old
- Babywise Sample Schedules: Eleven Months Old
- Babywise Sample Schedules: 12-15 Months Old
Schedule Month Two Overview
During this second month, aim for the following:
- 8-10 feedings per 24 hour period.
- Feedings should be 2.5-3.5 hours apart typically (but always Feed Baby When Hungry, even if that is early). The time intervals can vary. For example, your first interval can be 3 hours and your second interval 2.5 hours.
- The first Growth Spurt happens around 3-4 weeks old. Expect baby to eat more often during this time.
- 6-8 naps per day. The last nap might be very short (30-45 minutes long).
- Naps are 1.5-2.5 hours long.
- Baby can be allowed to sleep longer stretches at night around 6 weeks old. 7-8 hours is okay.
- Baby might start sleeping 7-8 hours at 7 weeks old. Many babies do not do this until older, though.
- Start simple Independent Playtime at 5 weeks old.
For a full year overview, see this post: Your Babywise Baby: First Year Overview.
Month Two Sample Schedules
Here are our schedules we used as a one month old:
Sample Schedule 1
Around four weeks, the schedule I had created for Kaitlyn started to change. She had different plans than I did.
At four weeks, we were still working on waketimes, but had all but one or two down.
7:30–nurse
8:30–nap
10:00–nurse
11:00–nap
1:00–nurse
2:00–nap
4:00–nurse
5:00–nap
6:30–nurse
7:30–nap
8:30–nurse then bed
She continued with the two night nursings.
This schedule continued for a while. Some days, the 10 AM nursing would be 10:30. Also, some days the 4 PM nursing would be 3:30. Around 8 weeks, she dropped one night nursing. Around 9 weeks, I tried to force a dreamfeed at 10:30, but she would not wake up.
Sample Schedule 2
For McKenna, her schedule stayed pretty much the same. I had noticed by then that McKenna didn’t eat well if it was sooner than 3 hours:
7:45–nurse
10:30–nurse
1:30–nurse
4:30–nurse
7:00–nurse
10:00–nurse
I still woke her twice in the night.
Sample Schedule 3
6 Weeks
Kaitlyn’s schedule stayed pretty much the same. Here is McKenna’s six week schedule:
7:15-7:45–nurse. I changed our 30 minute window to this.
10:30–nurse
1:30–nurse
4:30–nurse
7:00–nurse
10:00–nurse
She woke twice in the night for the first half of 6 weeks old, then went down to once a night.
Sample Schedule 4
This is our daily schedule that we aimed for at 4 weeks old.
7:30–feed
8:20–nap
10:30–feed
11:20–nap
1:30–feed
2:20–nap
4:30–feed
5:20–nap
7-7:30 (time varies here)–feed, then bedtime
10:00–dreamfeed
Then night feed(s).
Typically, a night feed happens between 2-3 AM and then she wakes close to 7-7:30 AM. Sometimes she wakes as early as 1:30 AM.
Sometimes, she will wake another time at 6:00 AM. When this happens, I try to do the one side feeding and then get her up at 7:30, but if she wants two sides, we just do two and I let her go a little more than three hours for her feeds during the day so she can be on a normal schedule.
Sample Schedule 5
5 weeks old
This is our daily schedule that we shoot for. Our first feeding varies the most. It typically ranges between 6:30 and 7:30 AM.
7:30–feed
8:20–nap
10:30–feed
11:20–nap
1:30–feed
2:20–nap
4:30–feed
5:20–nap
7-7:30 (time varies here)–feed, then bedtime
10:00–dreamfeed
Then night feed(s). Typically, this happens between 2:30-3:30 AM.
Sample Schedule 6
6 weeks old
This is our daily schedule that we aimed for.
Our first feeding varies the most. It typically ranges between 6:30 and 7:30 AM.
She is now old enough to do 2.5 to 3.5 hour intervals between feedings, so if she is sleeping when the time comes up, I let her sleep up to 30 minutes longer.
She will eat better if she wakes on her own, and if not, those extra thirty minutes can often be enough to get her interested in eating.
7:30–feed
8:20–nap
10:30–feed
11:20–nap
1:30–feed
2:20–nap
4:30–feed
5:20–nap
7-7:30 (time varies here)–feed, then bedtime
10:00–dreamfeed
Then night feed(s). Typically, this happens between 2:30-3:30 AM.
Sample Schedule 7
7 weeks old
7:30–feed
8:20–nap
10:30-11:00–feed
11:20–nap
1:30-2:00–feed
2:20–nap
4:30-5:00–feed
|5:20–nap
7-7:30 (time varies here)–feed, then bedtime
10:00–dreamfeed
Then night feed(s). Typically, this happens between 2:30-3:30 AM.
Our Full Summaries
You can read a full summary and breakdown of every week by following these links:
- McKenna Newborn Summary: Week Five
- Brinley Newborn Summary: Week 5
- McKenna Newborn Summary: Week Six
- Brinley Newborn Summary: Week 6
- McKenna Newborn Summary: Week Seven
- Newborn Summary: Week 7
- McKenna Newborn Summary: Week Eight
- Newborn Summary: Week 8
- McKenna Newborn Summary: Week Nine
- Brinley Newborn Summary: Week 9
Get your Babywise books here
Sample Month Two Schedules from Readers
Below are some sample schedules from readers:
Schedule 1
8am – wake up & eat (4 oz)
10:30 – bottle
11:30/12 – nap, if I can get him to go down
1:30 – bottle
2:30 – nap
4:30 – bottle
7:30 – bottle
9 – bottle, then in bed by 10
3 AM- wakes up and eats 6 oz. This isn’t “scheduled,” but he is waking up at the same time every night for this last bottle.
We’re still working on our schedule. Especially naps. Sometimes he just won’t go down, and CIO isn’t an option.
Schedule 2
7:30 am – eat
8:30 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 – will take a catnap usually wakes up a little fussy – will usually have to hold – may feed early
6:45 to 7:30 pm – eat
Bed by 8 (if eats at 7:30pm)
10pm – Dreamfeed
wakes at 5am for “night” feed – start day at 7
Schedule 3
7:00am – eat
8:00am – nap
10:10am – eat
11:10am – nap
1:20pm – eat
2:30pm – nap
4:30pm – eat
5:40pm – nap
7:00pm – eat, bed
10:00pm – dreamfeed
(MOTN feeding ~4am?)
Schedule 4
7:00 wake & nurse
8:00 nap
9:45 wake & nurse
10:40 nap
12:45 wake & nurse
1:40 nap
4:00 wake & nurse
5:10 nap
7:00 wake & nurse
7:45/8 bedtime
10:00 dream feed
Then usually wakes around 3:00am to eat.
Schedule 5
6:00 Wake/nurse/diaper change/wake time
7:00 Nap
9:00 Nurse/diaper change/wake time
10:00 Nap
11:30 Nurse/diaper change/wake time
12:30 Nap
2:00 Nurse/diaper change/wake time
3:00 Nap
4:30 Nurse/diaper change/wake time
5:30 Nap
7:00 Nurse/diaper change/bedtime routine
8:00 Down for bed
10:00 Dreamfeed/diaper change
Middle of the night – will usually wake up at 2-3:30am
Total wake times 50-75 minutes per cycle. We put her down for a nap when she starts to show signs of being tired (yawning, not engaging with us or toys, bringing hands to month/eyes).
Helpful Schedule Posts
- Sleep Training: The Four S’s
- Adding Waketime to Your Newborn’s Day
- Hunger Patterns
- Nursing A Newborn: Keep Baby Awake!
- Fussy Newborns and Mom’s Diet
- Newborn Evening Feeding Schedule
- Reader Sample Schedules: 0-12 Months
- Baby Whisperer: Growth Spurts
- Babywise Instructs Parents to Feed Baby When Hungry
- Baby Growth Spurts: Everything You Need To Know
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This post originally appeared on this blog June 2017
