Sample daily routine for children under 1 year old

Baby's daily routine at 8 months - new features of the daily routine

Last feeding and sleep until 6 am.
In this clockwise schedule of the day and feeding of an 8-month-old child, there is one “but”: the first part of night sleep, after which the sleepy baby needs to be raised and the equally sleepy one put into bed, is almost never observed. The baby wakes up cheerful, ready to have fun for a couple more hours. At the same time, parents have absolutely no time for fun, because dad has to work in the morning, and mom knows that the child will get up at 6 in the morning.

Therefore, in most cases, the daily routine for an 8-month-old child is adjusted hourly as follows:

• the first rise is not at 6.00, but an hour later;
• 1 nap - 10.00-12.00;
• 2 naps - 15.00-17.00;
• Preparation for main sleep and bathing - at 21.00. then the last feeding and main sleep from 22.00.

Thus, the day's rest is divided into 2 periods during the day. According to this schedule, the baby will live up to about one and a half years.

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Nuances of feeding

As a rule, by following the child’s daily routine at 8 months, the mother never faces the baby’s lack of appetite. This includes physical activity of the baby, walks during the day while awake, performing morning exercises, attempts to crawl and walk while holding onto support. The feeding regime for a bottle-fed 8-month-old baby and infant is as follows.

• 1 feeding - after waking up. Feed your baby breast milk or formula. If the baby woke up early, he may now fall asleep for a while. And you will be able to get up not at 6 am, but at a more pleasant 7 o’clock.
• 2 feeding - at 10.00. Both infants and artificial babies eat foods that are new to them. It’s very convenient to start the day with porridge; for dessert, offer your baby baby cookies and tea. In addition, it is at this time that it is worth introducing the baby to new elements of complementary feeding, since there is still a little time before bedtime. During this period, meat and yolk are introduced into complementary foods. These are quite heavy foods, and even after introducing them to your baby, you should not give both on the same day.
• 3 feeding - at 14.00. This is a great time to eat vegetable puree or vegetable broth soup. And wash it all down with fruit juice.
• 4th feeding - at 18.00. A light snack with baby cottage cheese from the dairy kitchen and fruit puree.
• 5 feeding - breast milk (formula). Many kids enjoy eating porridge.

What to do if the baby does not want to eat or sleep

When the baby is healthy, the child's regimen at 8 months is maintained thoroughly. But it happens that everything seems to be in order with health, but the baby refuses to eat or sleep at the proper time. Make sure that other reasons do not interfere with the baby.

• Refusal to eat (complementary foods) is associated with periodic breastfeeding throughout the day. Your milk is not a drink, but a food. Therefore, they should be supplemented only after the main feeding, and not between them. The same goes for “cookies” and everything else that is usually given to the baby to chew on.
• You feed your baby at odd hours. The daily routine of a breastfed and bottle-fed 8-month-old child requires mandatory adherence to feeding times. Even if you and your baby are used to waking up at 8 a.m. instead of 6 a.m., and your entire schedule shifts by a couple of hours, always feed at the same time, no matter what the circumstances.
• The baby is teething - and the touch of a spoon to his gums is simply unpleasant for him. Don't insist, let the baby eat as much as he wants. And for the next feeding, be sure to wait the required 4 hours.
• The room is hot - this is the most common cause of sleep disturbance. It has been proven that babies sleep longer and more peacefully in a cool (if not cold) room. Be sure to ventilate it before going to bed at night, and open the window during the day, covering the baby well.

As you can see, many factors influence adherence to a routine. And the mother’s task is to take each of them into account, without deviating from the overall schedule.

Child education

The task of adults is to ensure that the child clearly understands the prohibitions and permissions. The main type of influence is the intonation of the voice: affectionate or angry, calm or excited. A healthy child is well disposed, he quickly forgets about conflict situations, and is able to instantly switch attention from one event to another. Other features:

• keen interest in the actions of other people;
• conflict when playing together with peers;
• tearfulness during a long separation from the mother - the child is not yet ready to remain without her for a long time;
• reaction to heard music - children dance or try to sing along.

The baby communicates with pleasure; now he not only listens to what the elders say, but also tries to answer them and readily enters into dialogue.

Child 9 months: daily routine and nutrition

By 9 months, the baby already eats more than just milk. The little one has already tried a lot from the whole variety of products. Complementary feeding by month during breastfeeding began three months ago. With artificial feeding, the baby already gets used to “serious” food within 3.5-4 months.

The child eats 5 times a day. Most often, the day begins with mother's milk or formula. The remaining 4 meals are complementary foods, which the baby most often washes down with milk or formula. In general, the diet of a 9-month-old toddler has a more or less clear plan throughout the day:

• milk;
• milk porridge + milk/formula;
• vegetable and/or meat puree + milk/mixture;
• fermented milk product (cottage cheese, yogurt, kefir);
• porridge and milk/formula.

By 9 months, a child can eat almost all foods, subject to their quality and heat treatment.

The exception is such neutral fruits as bananas, apples, pears (be careful, they can weaken)

From vegetables, a child can:

• potato;
• carrot;
• beets;
• cabbage (cauliflower, broccoli);
• onions (in combination with other vegetables);
• zucchini;
• pumpkin

You can make multi-component purees. For example, cook a dietary soup with beef, chicken or rabbit, and then puree it with a blender or rub through a sieve. At 9 months, a baby’s diet is almost as varied as an “adult’s”, except that the food prepared for the baby is dietary.

Among the cereals that a nine-month-old baby will benefit from:

• buckwheat;
• rice;
• wheat groats like "Artek";
• corn chaff

You can also give a little of all kinds of pasta. In addition, at this age you can start giving your baby boiled chicken eggs, but it’s better to start with the yolks - the whites are an allergenic product. And finally, you can cook fish for crumbling, but only if it is completely heat-treated and only low-fat varieties like pollock or hake.

In addition to milk from liquid treats, juices from neutral fruits (apple, pear, peach), compotes from “local” berries and dried fruits will find their place in the baby’s menu. But it’s still better to wait with citrus fruits for at least a year.

The little one eats on average every 3-4 hours during daylight hours; at night the baby can wake up, mainly to drink. If you are breastfeeding, that's even good. Prolactin, which is responsible for the secretion of milk in your breasts, is produced at night. Therefore, nightly breastfeeding will definitely protect you from questions about how to increase lactation.

If you track when approximately the little one wants to eat, this moment can be safely used as the basis of the regime. Sleep, as a rule, is based on feeding, as well as periods of wakefulness.

Daily routine and nutrition of children after one and a half (1.5) years

Details Category: Routine and sleep One-and-a-half-year-olds... Playful, capricious, non-eaters, but still so smart. From one and a half to two years, we are polishing and processing the data already received by our little ones. For mothers, this is a very important period, because it is necessary to prepare the kids for their first independent appearance in the world - for kindergarten. True, the little ones are still awake, for them the phrase “kindergarten” means absolutely nothing. Doesn't mean that yet. But mothers know that now it is especially important for them to teach the baby to eat with a spoon on his own, ask to go to the potty, and put on at least some things. As for nutrition, in the fourth half of the baby’s life it, of course, undergoes some changes. Let's put it this way: it becomes more free for the child and calmer for the mother. It becomes possible to vary food quantitatively. Lunch is given to the child in a slightly larger volume. This prepares the body’s ability to subsequently receive the bulk of the daily diet in the first half of the day. Such big ones no longer need to wipe food.

However, the basic principles of a healthy diet remain with us: • Fried foods are still not present in the diet. • Food must be well boiled, stewed and mashed with a fork. • The first, morning, and last, evening, feedings should consist of relatively easily digestible dishes. They can be supplemented with kefir, yogurt, and baby milk.

• Lunch can already be called complete, because it consists of three dishes: soup, relatively thick vegetable puree, meat or fish in the form of a steam cutlet, meatballs or minced boiled meat, liver pate. For the third, fruit and berry juices, pureed fruits and berries, compotes, and occasionally jelly refreshed with juice are desirable.

During this period of growing up, the child can begin to be given salads of grated vegetables and fruits before meals (grated carrots with apples, boiled beets with sour cream or lemon juice, grated cucumber, peeled tomato). The purpose of the salad is to stimulate the appetite and stimulate digestion, but the amount of salad is still limited (1-2 tablespoons). Let us remind you that the presence of potatoes in a baby’s diet is still insignificant. A child from one and a half to two years old needs only two potatoes per day, each of which is equal to a child’s fist. The high starch content in potatoes makes them difficult to digest, especially if there are no other vegetables in the puree. In total, it is advisable for the baby to eat 200 g of various vegetables per day (excluding potatoes). "Porridge-babies." This hearty and healthy dish is one of the first to appear in baby food. The first of the first are gluten-free porridges: rice, corn, buckwheat. Some porridges (semolina, oatmeal) have one drawback: they contain phytic acid, which interferes with the absorption of calcium and iron from food. But the vegetables that the child eats throughout the day eliminate this deficiency. How to cook porridge correctly? The washed cereal is dipped in hot water and boiled. First, it is better to cook in water so that the cereal grains swell well, and then add milk. Porridge cooked in this way is not only easier to digest, but also more complete. Oil is added to the porridge before serving. First lunch dishes For babies in the second year of life, cereal or vegetable soups are usually cooked. Borscht or cabbage soup is preferable as it contains more vegetables. You shouldn’t get carried away with soups; it’s enough to cook them twice a week. No spices, seasonings, fried ingredients or sauces are added to children's soup. It is necessary to include fish soup and sometimes milk soup in your weekly diet. Second lunch courses As before, the second lunch course is, as a rule, meat or fish (less often). Type of meat dishes: meatballs, meatballs, steamed cutlets, etc. Meat: veal, lean beef or rabbit, and occasionally chicken. Often, in order to save time, mothers replace natural meat with sausages, offering the baby potatoes with sausages, sausages, and boiled sausage for the second course. Believe me, this is not the best replacement. Sausage products practically do not contain meat - there is no more than 7% of it, that is, 100g of boiled sausage or 2 sausages contain no more than 7g of meat! So you can get to the point of anemia. In addition, sausages contain a lot of spices and salt, the meat is quite tough, and the child’s ability to chew food at this age is still insufficient. So mommy will have to work hard on the main meal of the day - lunch. "Hack work" won't work here. The afternoon snack consists of milk or kefir with cookies (bun) and fruit or berry puree. Curd dishes are acceptable if they are not available at other feedings. The total daily amount of food varies between 1100-1300 g. The baby must be given regular drinking water. Milk and kefir are not drinks. They are part of the diet. It is also impossible to replace water with juice, since it has a certain supply of carbohydrates.

Daily routine for a 1.5-2 year old child 7.00 – 8.00 – getting up, washing, exercises; 8.00 – 8.30 – breakfast; 8.30 – 12.00 – morning wakefulness, walk, games, activities; 12.00 – 12.30 – lunch; 12.30 – 16.00 – afternoon nap; 16.00 – 16.30 – afternoon tea; 16.30 – 20.00 – evening wakefulness, walk, swimming; 20.00 – 20.30 – dinner; 20.30 – 7.00 – night sleep.

Sample menu for children aged 1.5-2 years

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Ah, these dizzying swims!

Despite the fact that the child is already big, the number of baths should not be reduced; for better development and sound sleep, it is best to end each active day with a refreshing bath.
The water temperature should not exceed 36 degrees, and for dousing it is necessary to use water 2-4 degrees colder. Since the child begins to actively clap his hands and play with his fingers, take various rubber and plastic toys with you into the water. Watch carefully to ensure that water does not get into the nose and ears; at first it is best to use a safety circle so that in case of active movements the baby cannot tip over and swallow water. You can add string, sage and other herbs to the water; also sometimes tint the water with potassium permanganate, this will prevent skin irritation and make the water soft.

Bathing should take no more than thirty minutes to allow the child to relax before bed. While bathing, you can make massage movements in the area of ​​the arms and back, as well as in the groin area.

Waking hours

A 9-month-old baby's waking hours should be filled with useful and interesting activities. The development of motor skills is important at this age - finger games, which kids usually really like, or bright scraps of fabric with buttons sewn on them, will help you cope with such a difficult task. Children love to look at pictures, so cardboard books or cards may well appear among the toys. Most of them already know how to crawl, so you can play catch or hide and seek with them, or give them balls.

Finger games stimulate the development of fine motor skills

A child’s daily routine should include gymnastics. It needs to be done at the same time every day. It is optimal to do this 40–50 minutes after breakfast. This way, there will be a sufficient break between meals and active pastime, but the baby will have time until his first nap.

Like younger children, older kids love gymnastics on a fitball. This is not only fun, but also useful for the development of gross motor skills and the vestibular system. This exercise machine can be alternated with diaper exercises.

Day walks

Walking is an important element in the daily routine. If the baby sleeps in a stroller, then you can spend one of the naps in the fresh air. With two day rests, it is better to take the first one outside, and with three days, the longest, usually the second one. But not all children at 9 months agree to these conditions. In this case, a walk becomes a way to gain new experiences.

In good weather, you need to walk 2 times a day. The length of time spent outside depends on the time of year and the wishes of the parents. For example, in the summer you can spend several hours outdoors, taking a blanket and a light snack with you to a park or square. In winter, with mild frost, the duration of the walk is about 1–1.5 hours.

You need to take your child for a walk outside every day.

Bathing

In most families, it is customary to bathe children before a night's rest - most often this activity has a relaxing effect and helps to “wash away” the day’s emotions. In this case, it becomes part of the bedtime ritual, which can be supplemented by wishing good night to parents or toys, singing a lullaby, or reading a fairy tale.

But there are also babies for whom bathing, on the contrary, excites them. For them, water procedures are best done in the morning or after a nap. But, most importantly, you shouldn’t give up the bathroom altogether.

Swimming along with walking is part of the hardening and development of immunity

1 year 6 month child's daily routine

Parents strive to give their children everything for full development. The daily routine of a 1 year 6 month child necessarily includes time for sleep, nutrition, games and walks in the fresh air. It must be compiled taking into account the interests of not only the baby, but also his mother.

Nutrition of a child at 1 year and 6 months

Lunch accounts for a third of the daily diet, dinner and breakfast - about a quarter, and afternoon snack - 20%. By this age, most of the teeth have already erupted. There is no longer any need to grind all the food into a homogeneous porridge. It is enough to crush large pieces with vetch.

Hard food is still difficult to digest, so the skins of vegetables and fruits must be peeled off. Instead of sweets, you can already give citrus fruits, grapes, apricots, watermelon, pears, strawberries, cherries. At the same time, we are still monitoring the reaction. If the cheeks turn red or the stool changes, the child probably has an allergy and will have to wait a while with exotic fruits.

The food is becoming more varied. At one and a half years old, the menu is allowed to include fresh vegetable salads 40-50 grams, grated on a coarse grater, and hard cheese. For breakfast, in addition to milk porridge, you can offer a sandwich with butter. Fried and fatty foods, sweet carbonated drinks, canned foods, salty and smoked foods are prohibited.

Baby's sleep

The need for sleep is reduced. The child goes to bed later at night and wakes up earlier in the morning. This is especially noticeable in the warm season, when the sun rises very early. For many children, a daily routine with one nap during the day is already relevant. Getting them to sleep twice during the day becomes impossible. In this case, it is better to plan your rest immediately after lunch.

Children with poor health, during illness, who are very active and easily excitable continue to sleep twice. They need more time to regain their strength.

It happens that a child who is already accustomed to sleeping once, after a while requires additional rest. Dr. Komarovsky assures that such behavior is absolutely normal. The baby must be given the opportunity to satisfy his needs and adjust his daily routine.

When changing your routine, it is important to follow it by the hour. If yesterday you went to bed at 10 o’clock in the afternoon, then today you cannot do it at 12 o’clock. You need to increase your waking time gradually, adding no more than 30 minutes every day until it reaches five hours.

The following table shows what a child's daily routine might look like at 1.6 years old.

In his free time, the baby plays independently or with adults. It is recommended to diversify your waking hours by reading books, drawing, and sculpting. He is already interested in such activities. A warm bath and a relaxing massage will help you fall asleep faster at night.

What to do with a child

The approximate daily routine assumes a lot of free time. One and a half year old children are already big enough and ready to learn. They are interested in household appliances, electronic gadgets, and technology.

Everything that the baby can reach will be carefully examined and studied. It is better to give him the opportunity to satisfy his curiosity under the supervision of his parents. In this case, the likelihood that he will do it on his own and cause harm to himself is significantly reduced. Safety should be the main condition of any games and activities.

Useful tips for mothers: CHILD UNDER 3 YEARS OLD

What a baby can already do at this age:

• distinguish several geometric shapes;
• assemble a simple pyramid;
• distinguish 3-4 colors;
• hold a pencil and draw lines on paper.

Don't be upset if your baby hasn't learned something yet. This does not indicate a developmental delay. Each person is individual. For many, this process occurs in spurts, and for some, a push is needed. Simple activities and exercises can give it.

The child is shown pictures and explained what is drawn on them. At the same time, real examples can be shown. This works well with colors, shapes, names of animals, body parts. The mother’s attitude and determination are very important in this matter. You need to understand that the baby is not able to remember something the first time, you will have to be patient and repeat the same thing every day.

Upbringing

Behavior is formed on the basis of experience gained and models given by surrounding adults. The child notices even little things and accurately repeats intonations, words, and manner of speaking. If assault is practiced in a family, in the future the younger members of the family will most likely fight in kindergarten and school.

You can demonstrate the correct behavior options using role-playing games:

• caring for a doll, soft toy;
• game of shop, circus, cinema;
• playing doctor, cook;
• joint cleaning, where the baby performs “important” tasks.

The main task of parents is to help them understand all the “dos and don’ts.” This will take time and a lot of patience. The main levers of pressure are intonation. The baby must understand that when mom is happy, she speaks in a gentle voice. If the parents are angry, then angry notes appear in the voice. It is not permissible to use physical violence. Children who were beaten in childhood grow up lacking self-confidence and rarely achieve success in adulthood.

Children aged 1 year and 6 months enjoy communicating with adults. The lexicon is still quite poor, but they are striving to expand it. To help with this, you need to constantly talk. It is advisable so that the baby can see the face and lips.

A child at this age is very active and inquisitive. The task of parents is to protect the environment as much as possible. It is impossible to continuously monitor the baby. When doing household chores, you need to give him an interesting task. He can play cook with real dishes, bathe dolls and put them to bed. Thus, the mother has the opportunity to do something around the house, and the child is actively developing.

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How to set sleep mode

Many mothers of nine-month-old babies are faced with the problem of disruption of biological rhythms when the baby “confuses” day with night. This phenomenon must be combated when the first “alarm bells” appear - otherwise, the time of falling asleep and waking up will gradually shift, which may result in the baby staying awake until 1-2 am.

Pediatricians consider the ideal time for waking up children in the first year of life to be from 6 to 7 am (in some cases, this interval may be slightly increased). In order for the child to wake up at this time, he must be put to sleep at night between 22 and 23 hours. If your 9-month-old child is used to going to bed later, you can use the methods below to gently achieve your goal.

Method 1

An hour before the required time, you should turn off any devices that may attract the child’s attention (TV, tape recorder, computer), turn off the bright lights, and remove all books and toys. When the child understands that there will be no more interesting activities, he will fall asleep on his own much earlier than usual.

Method 2

If your baby is used to going to bed at midnight or even later, you need to put him to bed every day 10 minutes earlier than the previous day. Such a difference will not be noticeable to the child, and a gradual approach will help you painlessly switch to an early bedtime and avoid children's tantrums.

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Daily routine for a two year old child

Zaharik's mother writes:

05/24/2017 at 11:35

It’s so strange to read some of the negative comments from the series: it’s unrealistic to go for two walks, you can’t cook in an hour, each child chooses his own regime - like you can’t put everyone under the same brush, etc. I don’t understand why some mothers are so afraid of the word “regime”? After all, it’s incredibly convenient, and the child generally feels great. After all, all kindergartens, without exception, operate in the same mode, and the sooner a child joins it, the better for his development and well-being. My son is 1.5 years old, and we are doing well in all of the above, and somehow everything happened by itself, without any stress for the child and the parents. We walk twice, cook, clean, play and read. And I’m far from being a super mom, I just try every day to put my child to bed on time, no later than 9:30 p.m., and of course, in the morning he wakes up at approximately the same time interval. Between 7 and 8 am. As a rule, in the morning the mood is good; you can have time to take a shower, eat, and prepare lunch or clean up. Nobody says that you have to clean the entire apartment every day, or prepare first course and compote. You can simply wipe the floor quickly one day and brush off the dust the next. It is advisable to “generalize” an apartment anyway, if possible, without a child. It’s such a thing with us that if my husband is on the weekend, he goes for a walk with his son, and I have two hours to “generalize” the apartment, and either prepare the first course, the second course, and compote. Now, thank God, multicookers and washing machines are all for the convenience of mothers. In the end, you can turn on cartoons, sometimes, and quickly finish things. We go for a walk at about 10.30-11.00, and until 12.00-12.30, sometimes we stay late, but the child is then very tired and eats worse at lunch and takes longer to go to bed. During Quiet Hour, you can finish what you didn’t have time to do, but often I also manage to lie down or even take a nap - and then in the end everyone is in a good mood, rested. We get up, have lunch, play and go for a walk again. Then dinner, swimming and bed. Of course, sometimes not everything is so smooth, and teeth grind, and the mood is whiny - that sometimes you can’t even wash your face or drink a mug of tea, but these are rather exceptions. I am even more convinced every time that my son is active, has a good appetite and is in good spirits when he walks twice every day, and when the weather doesn’t allow it, he is forced to stay at home - he walks around sour, and I am with him. So don’t be afraid of the regime and long walks, all advantages! By the way, don’t forget that walking is also natural vitamin D)

Baby's sleep schedule at 7 months

What would you like to change in our regime? Sometimes bedtime moves to 11 pm, which is definitely late. Who needs a sleep-deprived mother? They say this is a common problem at 7 months as the baby goes from three naps to two and it's not easy for everyone. I hope that by autumn, when it starts to get dark early, we will put the baby to bed at 20:00-21:00.

At 7 months, a child’s daily sleep requirement is 14.5 hours, 11 of which are at night, and 3.5 during the day. That's pretty much how it works out for us. I advise you to really monitor your waking hours and not tire your baby! At this age, a child should not “walk” for more than 2.5 hours, as he may become overtired and begin to be capricious. Watch your baby carefully and put him to bed at the first sign of fatigue.

We recently encountered an unpleasant situation - our daughter wakes up every hour until about midnight. However, just a month ago this happened every half hour. I associate it with the immaturity of the mental system and teething, and I am sure that gradually the sleep will become calmer and stronger. There is also a weak dinner, because in the evening, as you know, there is less milk. This problem should be solved when cereals are introduced, which are often given at night so that the child sleeps better, is full and happy.