Why Every Schedule You've Downloaded Has Failed (and what your baby's schedule should be)

What Should My Baby's Schedule Look Like? (The Wrong Question)

I get asked this constantly, and I always answer it with a question: what do YOU want it to look like?

Because there's what a schedule should look like on paper, there's what your baby is actually capable of, and there's what your family's life will genuinely allow. The right schedule lives somewhere in the middle of all three. Most people are only looking at the first one.

In this episode:

• The biggest mistake I see: living and dying by the time on the clock, when your baby has no idea what time it is
• Why the order of the steps matters more than when they happen, and how a routine sets an expectation for a baby who can't understand a single word yet
• The bedtime example that makes it click: why 7:00 vs 7:15 vs 7:30 doesn't matter, but bottle-and-bed one night and the full bath-lotion-book-song the next absolutely does
• Why I ask what you want your schedule to look like, and what baby schedules have in common with eating clean and going to the gym
• The wake window trap, and why a downloadable graphic is a guide and nothing more

Stop chasing perfect. Chase the happy medium you'll actually keep.

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Kristen Jacob is a Certified Pediatric Sleep Consultant, Certified Lactation Counselor, and Newborn Care Specialist who has worked with more than 500 families.