- Hi guys, welcome back to my channel.
Today I'm going to tell you what Jackson's routine is
from six months to nine months.
Lots of you really loved the routine video I did
from three months to six months old,
so I thought it was time to do an updated one (baby crying)
because as you can see, he has grown up a lot.
He is a lot more active, vocal,
he's eating solids now and he's in his own room.
So it's time to share with you what he's doing now
in a day.
Yeah should we tell them?
A baby of Jackson's age still needs about 12 to 15
hours of sleep within a 24 hour period.
So again ideally they would sleep 12 hours at night
from 7:00 to 7:00
and then there is about three hours, two or three hours,
left in the day for naptimes.
So he's definitely cut down on the amount that he's sleeping
and also he's cut down on his milk feeds
because he is now eating three meals a day of solid food.
The main changes with Jackson since his last routine update
are that he is eating three meals a day.
We actually weaned him onto solid food a little bit early
at 5 1/2 months and we quickly upped him
to three meals a day because he was just so ready.
He's quite a big boy.
On a typical day Jackson will wake up
between 7:00 and 7:30, it just depends,
and the first thing that I do is go into his room
and I will feed him.
So this is when he has his milk.
I'm still breastfeeding,
but if you bottle feed, whatever you do,
this is the time where I give him milk.
I'll give him as much as he can take,
so if he has one side, fine, if he has both sides, great.
But we'll do the milk and then I'll change his nappy
and then we'll all come downstairs as a family
and have breakfast.
So that is about 7:30 or 8:00,
he will have his breakfast and he typically has
Wheatbix or porridge or fruit
or even plain yogurt.
He's had all of those things.
Sometimes I'll also give him like the off cuts
of toast from his brothers or just give him a whole banana.
He does baby-led weaning and purees as well.
From whatever time Jackson wakes up,
he is normally able to say awake for two whole hours.
So if he wakes up at 7:00,
he will be tired by 9:00,
and it is normally around nine o'clock he wants
to have a nap.
To get him to have a nap,
I normally rock him a tiny bit but not loads,
get him drowsy, and put him into his cot.
Because I am normally at home for that nap
because if I had to do the school run,
I'll be back from it and if I'm at home,
obviously I'm already here and I normally use that time
to get ready and stuff.
So I'll put him down at 9:00 as I said,
drowsy but awake in his cot,
and he'll normally stay asleep for an hour.
Sometimes it a half an hour, sometimes it's 45 minutes.
It's never longer than an hour though.
So by 10:00 a.m., he normally wakes up.
When Jackson wakes up at 10:00,
we normally play for quite awhile.
That's normally quite a nice wakeful time
where you can do a baby group or get some errands done.
And then he will want his lunch at about 11:30 or 11:45.
And that is the normal time that I feed my toddler
and my oldest son lunch as well.
So he kind of fits in with that routine.
For lunch Jackson will normally have
like some pureed vegetables or like
a little Dairylea sandwich or some off cuts
of what his brothers are having for lunch.
I will also offer him a beaker of water,
but he still doesn't really know what to do with it,
but I just think it's good practice
to just keep giving it to him.
And once he's had his solids and obviously he's got
the water there, then I will also offer him breast milk
afterwards if he's still hungry or thirsty.
I just think it's nice for me to offer it at this time.
And then at about 12:00 or quarter past 12:00,
he's tired again.
So he's been awake for two hours and it's time
to go down for his afternoon nap.
For his 12 o'clock sleep,
it just depends what we're doing on the day,
but if we're out and about, he will sleep in his buggy.
If we're at home, he'll go down in his cot.
If we're in the car, he'll sleep in the car.
Being the third baby, he doesn't really have much choice,
and he's quite adaptable.
By about 1:30 he is up and playing and I will always
offer him breast milk at about 2 o'clock or 2:30.
One, because I think that he wants it at that time,
but also I don't wanna get caught out
on the school run.
So I will offer him breast milk at about 2:00 or 2:30,
and then we'll go off and do the school run
and come home.
Every now and then if he has had a shorter nap
at 12 o'clock, he will need a little top up nap
at about 4:30 or four o'clock for about 20 minutes,
but that is just if his afternoon nap
has been quite short.
If I sense he needs that, I will rock him
and let him have a little 20 minute nap.
But I do always wake him up from that nap
just because if I didn't wake him up,
he will not go down at 7:00.
But I must admit most days he doesn't actually
need that nap anymore.
Then at 5:00 p.m. he will have solid food again
when his brothers have dinner and again,
this is normally like vegetables or we have just
started offering him meat.
So he has had spaghetti bolognese before,
he's had chili whizzed up,
he loves cauliflower cheese.
So this is when he has his evening meal.
Then after we've had dinner and everything,
he will play for a bit and then we do bath time
at about 6:00 p.m.
We do bath time for all of the children at that time.
If Jackson is particularly tired on a day,
I will maybe move it forward to like 5:45
just to keep him awake for a bit longer.
But normally at 6:00 p.m. it's bath time.
Then after the bath I get him out
at about quarter past six,
get him changed, have a little bit of quiet time.
We do some little baby books.
And then I am feeding him his last milk feed
at about 6:30.
So he's normally in bed 6:45 or 7:00 p.m.
From 7:00 p.m. Jackson will sleep through
until about 3:00 a.m.,
or the latest he's ever slept in til is 5:00 a.m.
So I class that as sleeping through the night.
He doesn't go quite from 7:00 p.m. til 7:00 a.m.,
but I am still breast feeding,
although he's on three meals a day.
I just think whatever time he wakes up,
I am gonna offer him the breast still
because I don't exactly know how much he's getting.
But he does sometimes sleep from 7:00 p.m. til 5:00 a.m.,
which I think is pretty good going.
And I'll just feed him and put him back again.
So that is Jackson's current routine.
I really hope you found it helpful
and got a few tips from it.
Please give it a thumbs up if you did,
and I will definitely do an updated routine video
for his nine months to one year.
Oh my god I can't believe he's gonna be a year. (laughing)
But yes thank you so much for watching,
and I'll see you very soon, bye.
(baby cooing) Bye.
You say bbye, you say bbye.