How To Get Your Baby into A Sleep Routine

Old School vs App Way — You Decide

After taking care of my grandson aged 4 months, my daughter always asks for a detailed breakdown of how he has been.

Fine. Just did not cut it.

She wanted to know the exact times he slept. What time he began to feed. How much he drank. How long it took to feed. What time he played and how long for.

It all seemed a bit much to me and I had to enquire why she needed such detailed information. After all, he seems just fine to me.

She told me she needed this information to work out his sleep routine.

“His sleep routine,” I asked somewhat bemused.

Having raised two beings, of which she is one, I like to think I had some experience with this. I had been the kind of mum who went with the flow trying to figure out the baby's cues (not that it always flowed) it was the only way I knew how.

Therefore, I was somewhat bemused by this new-fangled approach.

Let me explain, it’s called modern-day parenting.

Where parents use Apps to plot out what their babies are doing or not as the case might be. Her App of choice is called Huckleberry: Baby & Child Tracker, Sleep Experts. ( I have no affiliation!)

The App plots out everything the baby does. Using this data, it then works out when the baby will be due the next sleep, feed, or play cycle, according to the information fed in. It carefully works out an algorithm, based on a pattern of what a baby of that age will need and want.

Now, when he cries. My daughter consults her App.

The App tells her what he needs. To feed. To sleep. Or just wants to play.

Is it just me being old-fashioned?

What has become of our world when parents need to turn to an App to work out what their baby needs.

Is this progress?

Maybe.

Or is this the manual everyone has been waiting for that helps them work out what their baby’s needs are.

An App that figures out your baby’s sleep routine.

Because let’s face it, new parents are exhausted and can hardly remember when they last slept themselves, they can only dream when their baby will next sleep again.

It’s a pity no one told my grandson about the App or what he needs to do exactly.

Let me put it this way, he’s not always compliant with what the App says he should be doing. Hmm… fancy that.

What do you think?

Should parents rely on Apps like this to support their parenting?

Or is the old-school method of figuring out based on the babies’ cues still the way?

Whilst you are deciding on the above, you may want to take a look at this article by Julian Cosky, it definitely changed my face and you don’t need an App to make it work either.

Talking about technology and social media, his other post made me realize I do have old-fashioned ways.

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