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Routine Schmoutine - going with the flow with my babies

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Channel: Lulastic Hippyshake · 2016 · People & Blogs

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This video explains why we have never followed a routine with our babies. 

There is more on this on my blog: 

http://lulastic.co.uk/activism/feminism/routine-schmoutine-the-tyranny-of-parenting-must-dos/ 

EXCERPT: "Despite reading of other babies on strict napping plans I felt like I should just let her do her thing. I want her to understand her own feelings- to know that when she is tired, that she should sleep. Not to just do something because it happens to be 12 o clock.

Most nights we do have a bit of bookreading and quiet time before she drifts off to sleep at my breast. But it could be anytime between 7:30 and 9. It just depends on how much she has napped, and what time she wakes up. If I try putting her to sleep 12 hours after she woke up in the morning, having had a 1.5 hour sleep, she will be like “Whhaaat? You kidding me?”

But the best nights, the times when I feel so easy and relaxed and liberated, when I feel we are just like an ancient wild Tribe of Camberwell, is when she just falls asleep on the way home after dinner out, or snuggles down on my lap while Tim and I chat in the lounge.The times when any bed time routine soars out the window."

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