1-month-old infant: How to eat - How to sleep?

Do not talk about personal time, for new mothers, being able to get enough sleep is also a luxury, especially in the early stage of 1-month-old babies. However, mothers can partly overcome this situation if they know the baby's schedule.

For the first time as a mother , you will not be able to avoid the surprises in the process of taking care of your baby, especially when the baby is still a 1-month-old baby . How to feed the child? How to let your baby sleep enough? How to "train" children according to a certain schedule of activities? The trick is in the following article. Do not miss mom!

Is “training” a 1-month-old baby on a certain eating and sleeping schedule simple?

1-month-old infant's schedule

In fact, for 1-2 month old babies, setting a schedule will depend a lot on the child's needs, then on the needs of the mother, and finally on the family. Before making a "schedule" for the child, make sure that the mother understands the baby's needs for food and sleep during the 24 hours.

Eating: The  stomach is quite small, so the baby needs 8-12 meals a day. Each feed, your baby can "load" from 90-150ml of milk. Unlike breastfed babies, formula-fed babies may need to eat less, as their digestive systems take longer to absorb the formula.

Sleep: Babies 1 month old need 16-18 hours of sleep a day. Babies tend to sleep more at night, and sleep less during the day. Furthermore, a newborn's sleep during the first 3 months of life is usually very short, about 30-45 minutes, or longer than 3-4 hours.

Play : Whenever the baby is awake, the mother can massage the baby, let the child exercise or play games for the baby, helping to tighten the mother-child love and develop motor skills as well awareness.

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With babies 1 month old, mothers can flexibly eat and sleep time of babies. This is not the right time to start a rigid schedule. However, according to experts, mothers should "schedule" things to do in a certain order: Eat - Play - Sleep.

As soon as your baby wakes up, a simple routine begins with the following activities:

Operation Time

7h Diaper Change - Feed your baby

7h30 Play with children

8h A nap

10h - Change the diaper - Feed the baby

10:30 Play time

11 o'clock for the baby to sleep

13h Change diaper - Feed your baby

13:30 Play time

14h Put your baby to sleep

16h Change diaper - Feed your baby

16h30Play time

17:00 Let your baby sleep

19h Changing diaper - Feeding the child

19h30Play time

21h Changing diaper - Feeding baby

22:00 Let the baby go to bed

This is a reference schedule, mothers can adjust to suit the needs of the baby as well as the schedule of you and your husband. A longer evening play time is a chance for you and your baby to bond more together.

Note:  When playing, mothers should pay attention to the signs of drowsiness in children. Contrary to the thinking of many mothers, forcing babies to sleep late does not prolong their sleep at night. On the contrary, it is easy to affect the child's sleep, make the baby sleep not enough.

With the MarryBaby schedule suggested above, the mother can still be flexible at the same time according to the needs of the child and establish her own order. Thus, the 1-month-old baby's care will also become "easier to breathe" with mothers.