bedtime/sleeping arrangments

lauroura · December 2010

so I feel like we are all over the place with E's sleeping/bedtime.

How do you get your baby to go to sleep at night? He's so wide awake and I just can't figure out the best way to get him to go to sleep.

Also what is/was your bedtime routine at this age? We really don't have one at all and I am struggling with getting one going.

And, if your baby slept in your room with you when and how did you transition them out? E currently sleeps in the newborn napper

KNJepp · December 2010

He either falls asleep while I'm nursing him, or if not, DH takes him upstairs, reads him a story, rocks him some, and then puts him down awake. He might fuss a little, but he's usually out within 10-20 minutes. At E's age, though, he's too little to really put himself to sleep.

Our bedtime routine at that age was (and still basically is - but with a little play time thrown in) dinner, dog-walking, bath, lotion rubdown & jammies, then nurse/bottle, and depending on awakeness, story/rocking. Or you could do story before nursing/bottle.

We sort of phased Cameron out of our room. First, I worked on getting him to sleep in his crib consistently for naps. Once that was reasonably well-established, we worked on putting him down in the crib for his first stretch of sleep, however long that was. After he woke up, we'd feed him and put him back in the PNP for convenience. After a while, we worked on taking him back up to the crib after that feeding, and so forth.

erica_kaspar · December 2010

We are doing what KNJEPP posted above for transitioning to her crib however since she was in her RNP its been not so easy. She does nap now in her crib but still sleeps at night in her RNP. First I want to accomplish her naps because with her reflux I don't want her in her crib right after a bottle (naps are different because we Eat, Play, Sleep) at night so it might be a while before she is in there even though the mattress is elevated.

Anyways, our bedtime routine is she gets her medicine, she gets a bath, jammies, massage, story time, bottle in the rocker then down for the night. We have done this since she was about 5 weeks old so now she is used to it and I think she 'knows' its night time but who knows if thats true.

We have transitioned her into her room but she is in the RNP at night so she gets used to being in her own room and we will eventually transition her to her crib this weekend.

LisaK2b · December 2010

at that age, there techinically was never an official bedtime. But after dinner (around 6:30pm), we would give her a bath, and then read a book and bottle and then she would fall asleep while I rocked her. But she woke up around 9 or 10 for another bottle (change of diaper too). After that bottle was when we turned off the lights to go to sleep. So it was almost 9 or 10 at that age when we called it bedtime (and then we woke up throughout the night for feeding).

In a few more weeks (when she's closer to 3months), that's when we started to up the time to around 8pm as "bedtime" and as she got older, it eventually became 7pm. Now that she's almost 1 and wants to still play and have energy, we've somewhat moved her bedtime later to 7:30,

SigmundsGirl · December 2010

When our Evan was that old we would put him in his swing around 8 pm and he would sleep until about 10, then he would eat again and go to sleep in his Newborn Napper. At that point we didn't have a bedtime routine. Because of his reflux it was difficult to replicate every night.

Here is how we transitioned his from his Newborn Napper. First I put the newborn napper cushion (minus the metal bars) in the bassinet part of the PnP while using a sleep positioner to keep him on his side. We did this for a week or two. Then when he was used to that, I moved the cushion and sleep poistioner to his crib. At 3 1/2 months when we moved him to his room we started a bedtime routine (bath, bottle, jammies and diaper change, book, bed). He goes in his crib around 8:00 and we read a story while he is in the crib. We have been doing this consistently and we can leave him there wide awake to fall to sleep on his own. It wasn't [erfect at first, but it has gotten soooo much easier.

We did have the 4 month wakeful period, which was horrible and lasted about a month, but for the most part he will sleep well at night. We also did a modified Ferber method during the 4 month wakeful and it was a God send for us.

Good luck!

kat.in.the.hat · December 2010

Eliza is just a week or so older than Evan and just about two weeks ago really was able to get used to the idea of the bedtime routine. After we put Marion down, she and I get a shower together, then Josh puts her in her PJs, swaddles her, then she and I nurse and she's out like a light.

The first few weeks of doing it, she stayed awake for a while after the shower, but now, she seems to know it means bedtime and nurses for just a few minutes before falling asleep.

And she's still in our room and will be for a while yet. We kept Mar in bed with us until six months old, and transitioned her with no problems, so I'm not really thinking about it or worried about it yet. I figure, why mess with a good thing.

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