When did you start a bedtime for your baby?

m&m823

I can't remember when we started putting DS#1 down at a regular time, besides when we went to bed.  Now he goes to bed by 7:30.  At what age did you start putting your baby down before you went to bed?  DS#2 sleeps in the evenings sometimes, but I worry we are keeping him awake longer than he needs/wants to be.  I haven't moved him in to the crib yet, but plan to soon.  Just thinking we should probably start a whole bedtime routine, with a much earlier bedtime than we are currently doing (which is essentially when we go to bed at 11ish).

BriAndSean

Right around 3 months with both of them. Sleep seemed to fall into a better rythym at that point.

kristalovesjared

9 months

cmcmillan

I am not much of a night owl, and it was hard since M is up at 7. I pretty much always put him down when we went to bed, but that was around 9:30.  Around 3 months we started the earlier bedtime, he now goes down 7-7:30.

doublem

It was around 3-4 months that a bedtime became routine.  E sort of set it herself after dropping her evening nap, and goes to bed now between 8-8:30.

MrsKatie

We started at 2 months, but she had gotten herself into that routine and was/is sleeping from 7 to 7 or 8. (unless I get her up at 6 on the weekdays)  We bathe, eat, cuddle and read then she goes down. On nights we don't bathe we just eat, cuddle and read.  It works well for us. 

seattlestef

We started A&E at around 2 months. They were super scheduled already and great sleepers so it was easy.

With the new baby I want to start working on it in a few weeks, but know it'll probably take awhile since she is BF'ing on demand and not as good of a sleeper yet.

IdahoGirl

Right around the 3 - 4 month mark both my kids seemed to get more routined.  I think that's about when it's developmentally appropriate and also when I went back to work and *I* had to be more routined.

Mrs.Kiltlifter

It was somewhere around 2 months.  They basically signaled that they were dropping the 9pm bottle and it went from there.  Then we started a more definite bedtime routine like bath, book, bottle, bed around three to four months.  but by then their bed time was well developed. 

JonathansMommi2010

I started Hunter when we was 3 months old it went very well he was a great sleeper