When to start bed time routine?

monkeypants23

ok so i know baby girl is only 3 weeks old- but 2+ moms, when did you start a bed time routine ???

and what time of the night would you start it at?

Im thinking I might start at 6 weeks old- (thats when my firend started with her baby) I want to do a bath, story, bottle, put on music and then bed.....

and im thinking i would start this routine at 7:30pm-

Does this sound about right? any suggestions on how to do it better? should i do it in a different order???

Torani

I don't think I started a bedtime routine until about 6mos with DS1.  Unless LO is not sleeping well or can not tell between night and day, it's not needed yet.  I think we started it as part of sleep training to get DS to go to sleep on his own instead of while nursing.  If you want to start sooner, it is of course up to you!

PinkPeony6210

I started around 2.5 months with DD1 (that's when I headed back to work). 

WildcatPrincess

We're more baby led, so it was awhile before we noticed a pattern establishing. Once we had a consistent down for the night time we started reading and nursing in the bedroom (as opposed to nursing in the living room and then laying down). She was probably around 3 months and went down around 9:30. As she got older bedtime naturally moved earlier, but that worked well for us at the time. I also wanted to keep the routine very simply, like 20 mins start to finish. It was basically PJs, read, swaddle, nurse.

AmyJoy728

monkeypants23:

ok so i know baby girl is only 3 weeks old- but 2+ moms, when did you start a bed time routine ???

and what time of the night would you start it at?

Im thinking I might start at 6 weeks old- (thats when my firend started with her baby) I want to do a bath, story, bottle, put on music and then bed.....

and im thinking i would start this routine at 7:30pm-

Does this sound about right? any suggestions on how to do it better? should i do it in a different order???

I have found that if we bath before bed we have to hurry to get the bottle in before they fall asleep... Something to consider.