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3 week old and bedtime

LovinToneLovinTone member
in December 2010 Moms

How long does it take to get your little one to sleep after bath time? We have been starting bath between 7:30 and 8:30 each night, eating, rocking, and then I try to put her down. It has been a process that takes anywhere from 1 to 3 hours. Ugh! She totally fights going to sleep in the evening. But the other night feedings usually are much easier.

 Is this pretty normal for everyone at this point?

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  • lrn327lrn327 member
    Our LO is also 3 weeks but with feeding on demand, it's almost impossible for us to do a schedule yet.  He's still eating so often that I could plan for him to go to bed but then he'd want to eat again, need burping, new diaper, etc.  We still just operate in roughly three hour cycles and hope that will change in another month or so.
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  • AngeldcfAngeldcf member
    We don't have a bedtime routine yet as we're BF on demand.  We'll try to put him in the PnP in our room after his 8pm feeding (which is sometimes his 10pm feeding).  He's usually good with a 3-4 hour eat, wake, sleep schedule though last night was HELL! 
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  • rainydayluckrainydayluck member
    We are just starting to attempt to do a schedule. I have been learning her "preference" for when she starts getting tired after bath. I have finally learned to move her bath time to 9pm and feed at 9:30pm since she tends to fall asleep around 10pm. 

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  • Mrs. Alli BrittainMrs. Alli Brittain

    With DS1 we were not able to do a bath as part of the bedtime routine.  The bath just caused him to be WIDE awake.  We tried using the bedtime body wash with the lavender, we tried keeping the lights low to calm him down but the whole process kept him wide awake.  We ended up nixing that as part of the nighttime routine.  We haven't really tried to hard to get DS2 into a bedtime routine because he is still so young that my schedule is more based on his needs. 

    My suggestion would be to try bedtime without the bath and see how she does.

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  • jkaplan84jkaplan84
    We don't have a bedtime routine yet, but typically before her 7:30/9:00 feeding (whenever a feeding occurs sometime in that time frame) I change Alice's diaper and put her into her jammies then put her down to sleep after than feeding.  Typically she will go down within 15 minutes of DH rocking her.  Of course now that I just wrote this I probably jinxed it!
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