A mommy with a plan...ha!!

This is kind of quick because the darling little beast is waking up as I type this.

I'm going to write this so I know I may be held accountable for its contents.  I've not really been very good at this whole stay-at-home mom thing.  It's friggin' tough!!  More on that another time, but as of today this little girl of mine is going to be on a better schedule.  Not that I'm going military on her but just helping her stay on track so mommy knows what's going on and can thus be a better mommy.  She still wants to eat around every three hours during the day, which is fine, remember because she was a preemie her adjusted age is like 5weeks old.  But at night she may go 5 hours one stretch and 4 hours the next then three hours that last "night time" stretch, not too bad even if I do wish I got to sleep for more of that.

So here goes: she needs to be up in the morning between 7 or 8 to "eat" breakfast.  This means she can be up and play till her lunch at 10 or 11ish and then its down for her only real nap of the day.  This needs to be over between 2 and 3 so that she can be up to play for a couple more hours before we try, stressing try to get her to take a mini nap around 4/5ish.  Then it can be bath time around 730-8ish and then a bottle and bedtime.  I turn the lights low to kind of signal that to her and I've been doing that since she came home.

And now here it comes, she is really waking up now and hungry!  I typed this out to kind of get some feedback as to how that sounds.  Yes, I know all babies are different.  And yes, thank you for reassuring me that I'm her mom and know her.  But still,  oh moms that know, let me know if that sounds reasonable.  I'm kind of basing this on what she does anyway, just hoping to keep her on track so that we can get a bedtime thing going.  She doesn't really like to nap often, just that one long one in the middle of the day and around that she will dose in my arms as I to stuff around the house or just dance with her.

I'm off now to get a bottle ready and feed the wee beastie and we'll see if the above plan is something we can do or if I'll get my first real laugh out of her because Mommy's trying to plan something :)

Peace out!!