Adaptation

We are making some changes to Miss C's night routine. Recently we did away with her "cluster feedings" and now give her a bottle 4 times a day instead of 5 and added an additional solid feeding. We also moved her bed time back to have her in bed earlier.

Overall, the impact with regards to the changes wasn't major. But there were some issues we had to address. Primarily that it was not working to try and take our nightly walk, give her a bath, feed her a solid and give her a bottle without some form of a meltdown. The meltdown typically happened on the changing table when trying to get her dressed for bed or in her high chair doing that last feeding. She was so freaking tired and hungry that her meltdowns were understandable...and frustrating.

So, we are making some adjustments to our routine and tonight I felt like I was going from the time I walked in the door. Yes, that isn't much different from other nights but bumping back when we did everything and reordering things required more effort on the front end to have this time on the backend.

It went like this...

Walked in the door. Kissed Miss C and talked to her for a bit. Kissed husband. Put Miss C in exerciser and changed clothes. Make dinner and cereal for Miss C. This is the first change to give her cereal and no bottle. Ate dinner and fed Miss C. Cleaned up and she played with her Dad. Got bath stuff ready. I have moved back to giving her a bath in the sink because my back has been bothering me and it works well with her sitting in the sink. Giving her a bath at this time is also a change. After she played for awhile and then had her bath she got into her PJs. We then took our nightly walk and she took a cat nap. Once home she had her last bottle of the day and was in bed and asleep by 8:15.

The changes aren't major. Start everything earlier. Rearrange a feeding. Move up bath time because she likes it so much and can have time to play. Get her ready for bed before our walk. I think this will work out better. We shall see.