- Hi guys, welcome back to my channel.
In today's video I thought I would share with you
my baby's routine.
He is now 11 months old
but this routine would suit a baby
from nine months to 12 months,
so up to a year,
and I thought I would do this
it hasn't changed loads since my last routine video,
but this has been requested,
and there are a couple of changes,
so I thought it was worth doing
because I've made a series of different baby routines.
If you have a different aged baby,
I have done baby routines from three to six months
and also from six to nine months.
So, this is the next one in the series,
and I'll just start.
Jackson is also not joining me for this video
because as you can imagine,
now that he is 11 months old,
he does not wanna sit still
and be in a video with me.
So I will just do this on my own.
I'm really lucky that Jackson sleeps through the night
pretty well, I put him to bed at about 6:30pm,
and he will normally go straight to to 6:30am.
Today it was actually 7am,
so it's normally between 6:30 and seven.
The first thing I do when he wakes up
is feed him, I'm still breastfeeding
so I will feed him some milk
and then I will also change his nappy.
Then I will take him downstairs
and get his breakfast ready,
and his breakfast is typically
porridge, like baby porridge,
with some baby puree in it,
and while I am getting that ready
I will give him some finger food to eat
so that may be some fruit,
he loves strawberries,
he loves watermelon at the moment
because it's the summer,
or I could sometimes give him a piece
of his brother's toast
and he will munch on the toast; he loves that.
And then sometimes at breakfast
I'll also give him some yogurt
and then once he's finished,
and I get him all cleaned up,
I'll put him onto the play mat to play with some toys
and then when it gets to about 9am,
you can see he's starting to get tired
he will start rubbing his eyes and ears,
and yawning sometimes,
so he can only really stay awake for two hours,
two to three hours at the most
before he needs his morning nap.
So I'll just take him upstairs,
and he sleeps in a sleeping bag,
so whenever he has a nap or goes to bed,
I will put him in the sleeping bag,
and I think because I always do that
it's a real signal for "you're going to sleep now",
like we're not going into his room for any other reason.
So I will put him into a sleeping bag,
give him his blanket,
he has become very attached to this one blanket of his,
so I'm guessing that is going to be his comforter,
I'll put him in his crib
and he will kinda rub the blanket on his face like this,
and get himself off to sleep.
Normally he's quite good at self-settling,
but if he's teething, or he's upset,
I will have to give him a little bit of a rock and a cuddle
before he goes down for a nap.
And in that nap he will sleep for either an hour
to two hours, and I love that nap so much.
I'm actually dreading it finishing
because he goes down at nine, for an hour,
and it gives me a chance to get ready,
it gives me a chance to tidy up
after everyone's had breakfast,
and I really love that nap,
I know I'm gonna miss it so much.
When Jackson reaches a year and over
I'm assuming that he will push that nap further and further
and be able to stay awake until about 11am or 12pm
and then have just one big nap.
At 10am when he wakes up,
I'll change his nappy if he needs a new nappy,
and then I will bring him downstairs
and offer him a snack.
I give my older children a snack
at about this time anyway,
so it works really well,
and I'm now offering him a beaker with water in it
and he really seems to like drinking from a beaker.
So he'll have that, and then he'll have a snack
which is normally the same as his brothers,
like breadsticks and cheese,
and then we will get out for the day.
Because he will be wide awake from 10am
to about 12:30, he can sometimes even go til one now,
but that's a really good time for us to
get out of the house, to run errands,
to see friends, to have friends over,
go to the park,
so we do stuff in those hours,
and then when it gets to about 11:30,
you can tell he is getting hungry.
So I will normally start his lunch at 11:30 or 12,
and he will typically have some sandwiches,
like I like to smush some sandwiches quite small,
but he does really well with eating those.
He'll also maybe have a fruit puree pouch
and maybe some vegetable sticks, something like that,
and then he will go down for his second nap of the day
which is normally at about 12:30.
That second nap of the day he will either have
in his cot, if he's at home,
or he will have it in his buggy
if we're out and about.
Because he's my third son,
he kind of has to be adaptable
so even if we're in the car,
he'll have it in the car,
he can kind of have that nap anywhere,
and do really well with that,
but he'll sleep from about 12:30 til two,
so it's normally an hour to an hour and half.
Then from 2pm til bedtime he is awake,
so again we can do some stuff at this time,
we can go out, we can see friends, et cetera.
Every now and then he still needs a feed
at about 3pm.
If he wants to have a breastfeed or some milk,
I will feed him myself or have also started
introducing cow's milk to him,
you normally introduce it from a year,
but I started it 10 months,
my doctor said that that was okay,
but obviously check yourself.
But he was kind of ready.
At about 4:30 I will start Jackson's dinner.
He will eat at this time
because that is when his brothers eat.
So, at 4:30, I'll put him in the high chair,
and get his food, he will typically have something like
mashed potato, or sweet potato mash,
and he loves to eat peas and sweetcorn now,
he's really quite good at that pincer grip and eating it.
And then after dinner I will normally start the bath
at around 5:45 to 6pm,
it just depends how he's doing on the day,
because sometimes at 5:30 or 5:45 he is so tired
that it's really difficult to keep him awake,
so a good solution is always the bath.
So he is normally in the bath at that time,
he absolutely loves bath time as well,
so that will perk him up if he is really really tired,
and then once he's out of the bath
I will get him all ready for bed,
and I will offer him a beaker of cow's milk again
just to give him a little bit
because I am slowly starting to wean him off me,
and then at about 6:30 I will go into his room
dim the lights, put him in his baby sleeping bag,
and then feed him myself,
and then I will put him down
sleepy, but awake.
And that is the key I think
to get them to sleep through the night,
they kinda have to get themselves off to sleep
in their own bed.
So, that is what we do.
He is asleep by about 6:45, 7pm,
every night and yeah he does really well with this routine.
So yeah, let me know what you think in the comments
and if yours is any different or you have any other tips
I would love to hear them,
and yes, thank you so much for watching,
I hope this was helpful,
and I'll see you soon.
Bye guys!