2 month bedtime

Emmy323

Hi ladies,

I have a FF 8 week old that sleeps between 8 and 10 hours at night. The problem is, I can't get her down before 11pm or midnight. Once she is asleep, she will sleep straight through until 8 or 9 AM. This isn't a big deal now, but it will be when I return to work in 2 weeks. We need to be up by 6 AM.

Any suggestions how to change this? Start waking her up earlier? Will it work itself out with age? I have tried a bedtime routine, but that doesn't seem to make a difference.

Thank you!

indirah18

I do not have any recommendations on this one since I am living with my own little night owl.  However, I am very interested on how you got your baby to sleep 8-10 hrs?  With the exception of this week due to him feeling under the weather from his first round of shots, my sweet boy sleeps a 3/2/2 hr schedule every night.  

Emmy323

She did that all on her own! We swaddle at night and not during the day. My oldest slept well once we started swaddling as well. Other than that, I have no other secrets.

MeatballEsq

I'm so jealous.

Kikabell

tonir319:

I'm so jealous.

this! 

danieliza1127

My LO was similar in that age, he wouldn't go to bed before 10pm.  He has been in daycare for a month now and he has pushed his bedtime back to 8:30 on his own.  I just started noticing that he was very tired around 8 or 8:30, red eyes and hungry, so I went ahead and started his bedtime routine and it worked like a charm.  Now he's in bed by 8:30 or 9:00 and sleeps until 6am which is when I get up anyway. 

So my advice is to let the baby set his own routine.  When you start waking her at 6 or 6:30 to get ready for the day and go to daycare, she will be tired and she will gradually adjust herself and her schedule.

kadokatie30

We had been starting the bedtime routine at 10:30 but I thought it should be earlier. Everyone else seems so put their babies to sleep much earlier. So we started moving it up until it was 9 - 9:30. He did horrible and kept waking up at night and didn't sleep as long. I moved it back to 10:30 and he is sleeping great again. So I'm not questioning it anymore. Maybe in a few weeks I'll try again and see if he is ready but I'm not worried about it now. 

Steph Bez

I had this exact same problem. I found the only thing that worked was making sure she was only up for an hour at a time during the day. She stopped taking 2-3 hr naps and now naps for 45-60 min 4 times a day but she goes to bed around 8 and sleeps for 12-13 hrs a night straight through, she's 3 months now and she's been doing it for 4 and a half weeks now. If you had to wake her up at 6 she'd probably take longer naps, at least in the morning. Good luck! I found that I really need my me time at night so I can relate!

Emmy323

Thank you so much for all your thoughts ladies! We had one good night this week...she went to bed at 10:30. The other nights were midnight. I've also noticed that she seems to need me in the room to sleep. If I'm not, she wakes up. I don't know if she can smell me, or what, but it's definitely strange. She sleeps in our room, and I definitely think it's time to move her in her own room and hopefully soon, start letting her fall asleep on her own.

You have given me hope that, with a little work, this can get better!