XP: Adjusting LO's bedtime

Elli143

Our daughter doesn't seem to want to go to bed before 11pm every night. I'll put her down earlier but she always wakes up wide awake. The positive side to this is that she'll generally sleep in until 9 or 10 before she's up for the day, but I am so exhausted when I put her down for bed that there's never any time for DH and I to have together.

How do you transition your LO to sleeping earlier? Should I start waking her up in the mornings (hah, if I ever wake up before she does)? Or is this something that will just happen naturally over time as she gets older? 

yinyang124

I heard try to push it back 30 minutes every few days. We're in the 11-midnight bedtime routine too, but they're not consistently sleeping long stretches yet so we'll wait a little longer to transition. I also enjoy the late wake ups too

wesleycrusher

DD wouldn't go down before 11 for the longest time, but it was NBD for us because DH likes to stay up late.  We didn't have alone time either.  We started to put her down a little earlier for a few days, then went a little earlier until it was 10 pm.  I knew I'd be away from DH for a month and I had to work, so couldn't be staying up  That was hard, sometimes I'd put her in the RnP at 10 pm and have to rock her for 30 min and fall asleep myself while doing it. She eventually adjusted.  Now she usually falls asleep even earlier, around 9, all on her own.  

I think we helped make it earlier, but at the same time I think she was naturally ready to go bed earlier, I don't know that we did anything special.  I think we just got lucky.

moonrose2715

It happens naturally too. I've seen some Pinterest posts on the subject lately. You could search it I'm sure.

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Snebel84

LO started falling asleep earlier in his own too. He used to be around 11:00 then it went to 10:00. Now its about 9-930. Sometimes he even falls asleep around 830 and then I just dream feed around 945-10 and hes good till about 4-5 AM.

Vegasbb

When is your LO's last nap of the day? We started a 6:30 PM bedtime at 6 weeks and it's been amazing for us. He used to go to bed at 10 PM, but when we realized he was fussy and annoying from 6 PM - 10 PM we realized he should have been going to be earlier all along. What helped us was doing a long bedtime routine with a bath, massage time, nursing, and then a big bottle to top him off.