"Currently have an almost 11 week old girl. While it's not quite time to start any sort of sleep scheduling / training, what I don't understand is why the universal recommendation is to get the children sleeping from 7pm to 7am. I understand that it is important for them to get that much sleep, but the specific hours don't quite make sense, especially for working parents."
"For example, I'm the working parent, and I leave the house at 7:30 AM, come home for an hour long lunch break, and then get home at 5:15 pm, every day. If we were to follow the 7 - 7 schedule, that would only give me 30 minutes in the morning, the hour during lunch, and then an hour and 45 minutes, totalling only 3 hours and 15 minutes a day to spend with my little girl."
"When I was a kid, my bedtime was set at 9pm every night, which makes more sense to me and let me spend time with my dad who worked. Having my baby's schedule set from 9 pm to 9 am would give me 5 hours total to spend with my little girl. However, I never see this as a recommended schedule."
A new mother with an almost 11-week-old daughter questions the common 7pm–7am infant sleep recommendation because it reduces her daily awake time with the baby. The mother leaves for work at 7:30 AM, returns for an hour-long lunch, and gets home at 5:15 PM, which would allow roughly 3 hours and 15 minutes together under a 7–7 schedule. She recalls a childhood 9pm bedtime that enabled more evening time with a working parent and notes a 9pm–9am schedule would provide about five hours of daily time with the baby. She wonders whether deviating from the typical 7–7 window is acceptable to prioritize parental bonding.
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