Your little eating machine is getting solids by now! In this episode, Bug and Shosh talk about transitioning down to 2 naps and the importance of establishing meal time manners at a young age. Bug also gives you some more awake time ideas along with great toys for babies at this age.

Shosh and Bug fill you in on the tailored nursing sleep schedule for your baby child's 4th, 5th and 6th month.

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Some healthy growth indicators are:

Roll in both directions (from front to back and back to front)

Starting to sit up

Most babies regardless of what plan you are using are sleeping 6-8 hours a night or if you are using the Babywise/Ezzo plan you can expect 9-11 hours at night

Starting solid foods

Laugh smile and babble saying things like mama, dada or baba

Nursing:

Your baby will drop the late evening feeding, so you will be feeding them most likely in four periods throughout the day.

Most pediatricians will begin to tell you to start introducing solid foods to your baby.

Sleeping:

Your baby will continue to sleep an average of 8-10 hours for breastfed babies and 8-11 hours for formula or bottle babies. Your baby will have three daytime naps about 1 ½ hr- 2 hrs.

Three signs to know when your baby is ready to transition to three naps

Your baby begins waking in the middle of the night

Your baby is waking very early in the morning

Your baby is waking early during their naps, maybe only sleeping for 45 min.

Sample schedule-

Baby wakes at 6:30am, feed and awake time, first nap at 9am for 2 hr, wake at 11am to feed, awake time, put down for a nap at 1pm, wake to feed at 3pm, awake time, put down for third nap at 5pm, wake up at 7 for fourth feeding, keep awake until bedtime which could be anywhere between 8-9:30, if you follow the book, it would be more along the 8 lines, if you follow Abby, it’s 9:30-10pm.

Waketime Activities:

Start signing with your baby! Nancy Cadjan’s Baby Signing 1-2-3: The Easy-to-Use Illustrated Guide for Every Stage and Every Age

Aditi Yoga and Bodywork Studio in Seattle

Nurturing Pathways

Also in this episode:

Shosh sings a song she wrote for Styrkur.

Bug fills you in on some more awesome wake time ideas!

We lay out the new nursing and sleeping schedule for you during baby’s 2nd and 3rd month.

 

Bug gives you a heads up on baby’s new milestones and health & growth indicators for this phase.

 

There are also some tips on troubleshooting while we drop the middle of the night feeding with as little drama as possible!

Listen in on today's podcast about your baby's first month. Today we'll be going over typical schedules for nursing/eating, sleeping as well as typical milestones within the first month of life. We'll also have some great ideas for wake time activities to try with your new little one!

Oh those sweet and stressful moments right after your baby is born! What are you supposed to be doing to keep this precious soul alive when they send you out the door? How often do you feed your baby? Are they getting enough to eat? How long should they be sleeping? Will I ever get to sleep again?

We’ll give you some helpful example schedules to give you a rough guideline of how the first few weeks might look with your new little one.

Parenting plans! You may even be wondering why you would ever need a parenting plan. So today we explore the benefits of having a plan in place (even before you have kids if you can) and what to look for when researching them. We will give you tips and tricks on how we went about choosing our own plans, what we wanted as an end result, and when to start implementing them in your own family.

As we were preparing for becoming mothers, we decided to read the book series Growing Kids God's Way (AKA Baby Wise) by Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo. Not only is it umm... controversial, but it also can be a little bit confusing and hard to follow as a plan. So, as new moms, not knowing where to start with this whole parenting thing, we thought it would be great to share with you our amazing resources that we ultimately used to smash our way through motherhood. We learned schedules, techniques, tips and tricks from our very own older sister who is an absolute baby whisperer, child guru of nine kids, along with the principals from Growing Kids God's Way. It has made our first year as moms so much easier and so we wanted to share it with you! Here is what we learned (and are learning) in a more digestible, consolidated way- a podcast!

Check out our [website](https://greedymoms.org)!