Please help - When to put 8 wk old to bed?

lcap

Hello there,

I was wondering when you started to push back your DC's bedtime? And what prompted you to do it? Usually my DH puts DS to bed around 10:30-11:00 (I take the night shift, lucky me). The thing is, DS usually takes a final cat nap around 7:30-8:00 and I was wondering if maybe that's interfering with his ability to sleep longer at night. On the other hand, there's no way in hell DH can keep him up to 10:30-11 without it. Is this usually when people push back bedtime?

dazidog

Up until the time change last weekend DD always went to bed around 10-10:30pm.  No matter what we did or tried to change in her schedule that is when she would go to sleep for the night. 

We used the time change to move her bedtime up to 9-9:30pm.  Last night though it didn't work for some reason, she was up until almost 11pm.  I'm hoping she was just having a bad night and that she will go back to 9pm:)

So I don't have any 'tricks' to move their bedtime up.  None of our tricks worked so we just let DD set her schedule and we follow it:)

MegGary

At that age I put DD to bed when she fell asleep.

10:30-11 sounds about right.  

CindiLu1

We've just started in the last few days putting her to sleep between 8-9.  I feed her at 8, then we read a book, put her in pjs and put her to bed.  So far it is working out great and she sleeps until 6am!  It is nice to have about an hour with DH before we have to go to bed.

CindiLu1

I forgot this part...

 What prompted me to do it is because I knew she could sleep for 9 hours straight (she's a great sleeper) and I wanted a little bit of 'baby free' time in the evenings to be with DH or do something for myself like scrapbook or read.  Even if you have to get up at 1or 2am to feed your DC I highly recommend starting to put them to bed earlier.

mrsk2005

DD goes to bed between 10-11pm.  We will start trying to get her down ealier when it gets closer to the time when I will be going back to work at the end of January.

meh720

I have been wondering that too!  We do somewhere b/t 10 and 11 and she is 9 weeks old.  But literally she eats at 730 is asleep by 830 or 900 and needs to be woken up at 1030 to do a finally feeding.  My Mom thinks it is time to start putting her down for the night bc around 8/830 she is never never awake after 830 no matter what.  The book Healthy Sleep Habits Happy Child says this is the age where you start putting down earlier but until 4 mos most don't go down well much earlier than from 9-11pm.