Do you put your 1 month old 'to bed'?

izziebee · April 2010

Our DS is 4 weeks today and I'm wondering if we are doing a bad thing by not putting him 'to bed' at an early time. Our normal routine is that he eats (I BF) around 6/7pm then we hang out as a family watching TV until around 9/10 when he's ready to eat again at which time DH feeds him pumped milk from a bottle. We all then go to bed (DS sleeps in a cradle in our room). Between those last two feedings while we watch tv he usually sleeps in DH's arms b/c that's his time with him since DH is at work all day.

So I'm wondering if this is a bad habit? Should we be putting him to bed in his cradle after that 6/7 feeding or is it okay to keep doing what we are doing? I'm just afraid of getting into bad habits but feel like he's still so young now that it's not really going to make a difference yet.

Thanks!

S2BMrsO · April 2010

Holy crap, I could have written this, word for word!! I'm curious to see what the replies are...

asupergirl09 · April 2010

S2BMrsO:
Holy crap, I could have written this, word for word!! I'm curious to see what the replies are...

haha... me too - DH works 7-7

so we are just now finishing dinner - i ate while DH held DS and now i'm holding DS while he eats - and i feel bad putting DS to bed around 8:30 cause DH hardly had any time with him today

bakershaker · April 2010

With DS we did the same as you, he hung out with us till we went to bed,andaround 2 months we put him to bed so we could have "us tv time"...he was fine...he didn't pick up a bad habit!

But with my daughter, we've been putting her to bed since day 1! Mostly because at the end of a day with 2 kids the last thing I want is to have her in my arms still till bedtime. She goes down at 7:30 or 8 with my son also...and she sleeps till about 1...so maybe she is learning good habits since she already sleeps so well at night?

Vera81 · April 2010

Well I'm not an expert

but I do have a 17 month old (& 5 week old). Your baby is still young - they won't develope a bad habit of staying up late yet. It is also important that dad and baby have their time together. Whatever schedule works the best for your family -is the best one!

CapitolBaby · April 2010

Just in the last week is when we started putting Juliet to bed at around 6:30 or 7 at the latest. We purchased the 'baby crack machine' (as its known on the Bump) which was a GODSEND. Without it, I don't think Juliet would be ok with just being put down to bed. We used to have to cradle her in our arms and walk around the house in circles for an hour.

jamilyn25 · April 2010

That's how our bedtime routine played out until just recently. We are now putting her down to bed between 7:30 and 8:00 b/c she started acting like she was ready to go down for the night. So in my case she let us know when she was ready to go to bed at an earlier hour. No bad habits were created by our previous routine.

sarahmae8 · April 2010

I don't think what you're doing is bad at all. That's great that he can have that time to bond with daddy. When my DS was 4 weeks, we did transition him to his crib and that helped us all get a lot more sleep. I thought for sure there was no way I could do that so soon, but it worked for us so I do put him to bed between 9-10 after his last night nursing and he sleeps until 4 or 5 now.

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